Dr. Wesley W. Emmons

Anna Powell, M.D., M.S., an assistant professor based on the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center campus has advanced training in infectious disease. She has expertise in reproductive infectious disease and vulvovaginal disorders, including HIV during pregnancy, pre-exposure prophylaxis, vaginitis and bacterial vaginosis. Dr. Powell has research interest in preterm birth among women living with HIV, and she was a recipient of a prestigious Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) awards. She is now funded through a Career Development Award (K23) from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the vaginal microbiome and metabolites of preterm birth among women with and without HIV. Her BIRCWH project focuses on how markers of microbial translocation, vitamin D and progesterone correlate with preterm birth among women who are pregnant and living with HIV. Dr. Powell completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Drexel University College of Medicine-Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia. She continued her specialization in reproductive infectious disease through a fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina, where she also obtained a master’s in clinical research. Dr. Powell is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Vaginal Yeast Infection. Her top areas of expertise are Vulvovaginitis, Vaginal Yeast Infection, Trichomoniasis, and Familial Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis.

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 Vaginal Yeast Infection. Her top areas of expertise are Neurosyphilis, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Vaginal Yeast Infection.

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 Vaginal Yeast Infection. His top areas of expertise are Neurosyphilis, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydia.