Damani A. Piggott
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Expertise in
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Overview

Dr. Damani Piggott is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the inaugural Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Diversity and Partnerships and Director of the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. His areas of clinical expertise include HIV and infectious diseases. Dr. Piggott has worked on clinical and research projects in urban and rural communities in the United States, the Caribbean, West Africa and South Africa. His research centers on understanding the biological, epidemiologic and social determinant pathways necessary to improve survival and quality of life for persons aging with HIV, with particular focus on the investigation of frailty and other aging phenotypes. Dr. Piggott serves as Co-Director of the Kennedy Krieger Institute James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases RISE Fellowship Program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is a founding member of the Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Equity Task Force of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Piggott received his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in Immunology from Yale University. He completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital and fellowship training in infectious diseases and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. Selected Publications Piggott DA, Bandeen-Roche K, Mehta SH, Brown TT, Yang H, Walston JD, Leng SX, Kirk GD. Frailty Transitions, Inflammation and Mortality among Persons Aging with HIV Infection and Injection Drug Use. AIDS 2020; 34: 1217-25 Piggott DA, Muzaale AD, Mehta SH, Brown TT, Patel KV, Leng SX, Kirk GD. Frailty, HIV Infection, and Mortality in an Aging Cohort of Injection Drug Users. PLoS ONE 2013; 8: e54910 Piggott DA, Muzaale AD, Varadhan RD, Mehta SH, Westergaard RP, Brown TT, Patel KV, Walston JD, Leng SX, Kirk GD. Frailty and Cause-Specific Hospitalization among Persons Aging with HIV Infection and Injection Drug Use. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2017; 72: 389-94 Piggott DA, Tuddenham S. The Gut Microbiome and Frailty. Transl Res 2020; S1931-5244(20)30062-1 Macias Gil R, Marcelin JR, Zuniga-Blanco B, Marquez C, Mathew T, Piggott DA. COVID-19 Pandemic: Disparate Health Impact on the Hispanic/Latinx Population in the United States. J Infect Dis 2020; 222: 1592-5.

Dr. Piggott is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, Hepatitis C, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 45 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.

Graduate Institution
Yale University School Of Medicine, PhD, 2004
Residency
Yale New Haven Health, Medicine and Pediatrics, 2009
Specialties
Infectious Disease
Licenses
Internal Medicine in MD
Board Certifications
American Board Of Pediatrics
American Board Of Internal Medicine
Fellowships
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, 2012
Hospital Affiliations
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Languages Spoken
English
Spanish
Gender
Male

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Locations

The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD 21287

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