Overview
Dr. Petros Karakousis is a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has joint appointments in Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His areas of clinical expertise include infectious diseases and tuberculosis. Dr. Karakousis received his undergraduate degree in 1994 from the Johns Hopkins University and his medical degree in 1998 from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He completed residency training in internal medicine in 2001 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. After completing fellowship training in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins, he joined the Department of Medicine faculty in 2005. His research interests include tuberculosis pathogenesis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis persistence and antibiotic tolerance, host-pathogen interactions and host-directed therapies. Dr. Karakousis was named a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2010, and was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2021. He has held numerous leadership positions, including in the Working Group on New TB Drugs of the Stop TB Partnership. He has served on the editorial board of various scientific journals and on numerous NIH study sections, and as a peer reviewer for many international government and private funding agencies.
Dr. Karakousis is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Syphilis. His top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Myelitis, AIDS Dysmorphic Syndrome, and AIDS Dementia Complex.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 134 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
Clinical Research
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Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Khalil Ghanem's, M.D., Ph.D., research interests include sexually transmitted infections and the vaginal microbiome. In 2008, he received his Ph.D. degree in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Ghanem is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Syphilis. His top areas of expertise are Neurosyphilis, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydia.
Brian Agan is an Infectious Disease provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Agan is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Syphilis. His top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Syphilis, Long Haul COVID, and COVID-19.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Dr. Susan Tuddenham is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She received her M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her M.D. from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She completed her residency in internal medicine and her fellowship in infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her research interests are in sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and the human microbiome in the context of infectious diseases. Her outpatient clinical practice focuses on recurrent vaginitis (including Bacterial Vaginosis and Vulvovaginal Candidiasis), Sexually Transmitted Infections, and recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in women. Dr. Tuddenham is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Syphilis. Her top areas of expertise are Neurosyphilis, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Vaginal Yeast Infection.
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- Distinguished
- HIV/AIDSDr. Karakousis isDistinguished. Learn about HIV/AIDS.
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- AIDS Dementia ComplexDr. Karakousis isAdvanced. Learn about AIDS Dementia Complex.
- AIDS Dysmorphic SyndromeDr. Karakousis isAdvanced. Learn about AIDS Dysmorphic Syndrome.
- Hepatitis CDr. Karakousis isAdvanced. Learn about Hepatitis C.
- MyelitisDr. Karakousis isAdvanced. Learn about Myelitis.
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- COVID-19Dr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about COVID-19.
- HepatitisDr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about Hepatitis.
- Hepatitis BDr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about Hepatitis B.
- Kaposi SarcomaDr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about Kaposi Sarcoma.
- Mycobacterium Avium Complex InfectionsDr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about Mycobacterium Avium Complex Infections.
- NeurosyphilisDr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about Neurosyphilis.