I’m a pediatric infectious diseases specialist. The patients that I see are primarily very immune compromised children, so premature infants with severe infection, children with HIV, and children who had a stem cell transplant or chemotherapy and are at high risk for infection. My clinical care focuses on providing ideal therapy and ideal dosing to help prevent severe neurologic injury after infections in premature infants. With premature infants, they can’t tell you their symptoms and there’s no one perfect answer with dosage, so the medicine is really as much art as it is facts. And that’s really my favorite part of my job – figuring out the right dose for that patient and using that knowledge to help the next patient who comes into the unit. Outside of work, I participate in Olympic weightlifting, CrossFit, and baseball with my wife and four children. Dr. Benjamin is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Neonatal Herpes, Neonatal Sepsis, Bacterial Meningitis, and Infantile Neutropenia.

Emma Mohr is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Mohr is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Zika Virus Disease, Tubal Disease, Monkeypox, and Viral Hemorrhagic Fever. Dr. Mohr is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Allison L. Agwu, MD, ScM, FAAP, FIDSA is Professor of pediatric and adult infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her clinical interests include HIV/AIDS and infectious disease. Dr. Agwu earned her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed a residency in pediatrics and internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University (University Hospitals of Cleveland/ Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital), and a combined fellowship in pediatric and adult infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Agwu's clinical and research interests focuses on children, adolescents, and young adults who are at-risk or living with HIV and their families. Clinically, she provides inpatient and outpatient pediatric infectious diseases' consultations and leads the Pediatric Adolescent HIV/AIDS Program, which provides multidisciplinary for those living with or affected by HIV. Further, she leads the young adult transition clinic, the Accessing Care Early (ACE) Clinic. Both programs are longstanding Ryan White Federal Grant-funded programs. Her overarching research goal is to decipher, address, and minimize disparities in treatment and outcomes for those living with HIV. Toward this goal, she oversees her own independent, longstanding, federally funded clinical research program and serves as principal investigator of the Johns Hopkins sites of the International Maternal, Pediatric, and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network and the Adolescent Trials' Network (ATN). Her research interests include optimizing outcomes for youth at-risk for and living with HIV, management and treatment strategies, and minimizing disparities in the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and outcomes. Other special interests include epidemiologic approaches to HIV, drug resistance, and clinical trials. She is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Agwu is Chair of the HIV Medicine Association. Dr. Agwu is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and COVID-19.

William Steinbach is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Little Rock, Arkansas. Dr. Steinbach is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Infantile Neutropenia and Febrile Neutropenia. Dr. Steinbach is currently accepting new patients.

I am a pediatric infectious diseases specialist with a particular interest in global health. I enjoy caring for children with a variety of infectious diseases both at Duke and at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre and Mawenzi Regional Hospital in Tanzania. I believe children are our future, and I take pride in providing excellent health care for the pediatric population across the spectrum of infectious and tropical diseases. Her top area of expertise is Neonatal Sepsis.

Natasha Halasa is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and an Infectious Disease provider in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Halasa is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), Flu, Parainfluenza, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Dr. Halasa is currently accepting new patients.

Ichiro Morioka is a Pediatric Infectious Disease expert in Itabashi, Japan. Mr. Morioka is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Congenital Cytomegalovirus, TORCH Syndrome, Small for Gestational Age, Congenital Syphilis, and Tissue Biopsy.

Sallie Permar is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and an Infectious Disease provider in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Permar is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Cytomegalovirus Infection, Congenital Cytomegalovirus, Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease, and HIV/AIDS.

Octavio Ramilo is a Pediatric Infectious Disease provider in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Ramilo is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infection, Parainfluenza, Infantile Neutropenia, and Kawasaki Disease. Dr. Ramilo is currently accepting new patients.

Kathryn Edwards is a Pediatric Infectious Disease provider in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Edwards is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Pertussis, Tetanus, Parainfluenza, and Smallpox.

Betsy Herold, MD, is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Vice Chair for Research at Children's Hospital at Montefiore. Dr. Herold is also a Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology, and Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She specializes in pediatric infectious diseases. Dr. Herold received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology in 1978 from Brown University and went on to receive her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1982. Dr. Herold completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Children's Memorial Hospital, where she became a Chief Resident in 1985. She then began a fellowship in research at Hagedorn Research Laboratory in Gentofte, Denmark. In 1987, Dr. Herold began a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Children's Memorial Hospital, followed by a Research Associate/Postdoctoral Virology Fellowship in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Northwestern University in Chicago. Dr. Herold's clinical research focuses on the prevention and treatment of infections in solid and stem cell transplant patients and other immunocompromised patients. Dr. Herold has also been involved in research in Kawasaki disease and the emergence of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the community. Dr. Herold directs a basic and translational research program on the prevention of herpes simplex virus (HSV) and HIV infections through the development of vaccines and novel antivirals. The current major focus of her lab is on a novel, paradigm-shifting, single-cycle vaccine to prevent HSV-1 and HSV-2. She has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1989. Dr. Herold has over 150 peer reviewed publications in peer-reviewed journals and has presented her work internationally. In 2012, Dr. Herold received the Clinical Science Faculty Mentor Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She has also been awarded the Henry and Jacob Lowenberg Prize in Pediatrics and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Young Investigator Award. Dr. Herold is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics and in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Herold is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Oral Herpes, Genital Herpes, Neonatal Herpes, HIV/AIDS, and Tissue Biopsy.

Joseph Bocchini is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and an Infectious Disease provider in Shreveport, Louisiana. Dr. Bocchini is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Relapsing Fever, Congenital Syphilis, Typhus, and Tetanus. Dr. Bocchini is currently accepting new patients.

Myron Levin is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and an Infectious Disease provider in Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Levin is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Shingles, Chickenpox, Flu, and COVID-19. Dr. Levin is currently accepting new patients.

Roberta Debiasi is a Pediatric Infectious Disease provider in Washington, Washington, D.c.. Dr. Debiasi is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), Zika Virus Disease, Kawasaki Disease, and Lyme Disease.

Paul Lantos is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Lantos is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Lyme Disease, Congenital Cytomegalovirus, Infectious Myocarditis, Giardia Infection, and Hip Replacement. Dr. Lantos is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Aaron M. Milstone is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a joint appointments in Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. A pediatric epidemiologist, Dr. Milstone specializes in treating infectious diseases in children. He serves as an associate hospital epidemiologist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the pediatric lead for infection prevention for the Johns Hopkins Health System. Dr. Milstone earned his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. He completed both a pediatrics residency and a research fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He also completed a pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at Johns Hopkins. He holds a M.H.S. (Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Milstone joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2007. His research interests focus on antibiotic resistance and prevention of healthcare-associated infections. He had led numerous clinical trials including the Pediatric SCRUB Trial and TREAT PARENTS Trial testing strategies to prevent organism transmission and healthcare-associated infections. He is principal investigator of the BrighT STAR Collaborative, guiding hospitals nationwide to reduce over-testing as a strategy to reduce antibiotic use and resistance. Dr. Milstone is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. His many other professional honors include the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society’s 2014 Young Investigator Award, the inaugural 2013 Caroline B. Hall Clinical Innovation Award, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2018 Mentor Scholar Award, and 2023 Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Award for Excellence in Quality & Safety. Dr. Milstone is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Sepsis, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Neonatal Sepsis.

Gail Demmler is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Houston, Texas. Dr. Demmler is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Congenital Cytomegalovirus, Herpes Simplex Encephalitis, Microcephaly, and Microcephaly Deafness Syndrome. Dr. Demmler is currently accepting new patients.

Shannon Ross is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Ross is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Congenital Cytomegalovirus, Neonatal Herpes, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), and Neonatal Sepsis. Dr. Ross is currently accepting new patients.

Sheldon Kaplan is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Houston, Texas. Dr. Kaplan is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Osteomyelitis in Children, Bacterial Meningitis, Infantile Neutropenia, and Streptococcal Group A Infection. Dr. Kaplan is currently accepting new patients.

Miriam Laufer is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Laufer is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Malaria, Woods Black Norbury Syndrome, Sepsis, and HIV/AIDS.

Marian Michaels, MD, MPH, is a physician in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and a professor of pediatrics and surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is board-certified in pediatric infectious diseases by the American Board of Pediatrics. Dr. Michaels earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She went on to complete a residency at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children/NHS Trust. She also completed a fellowship with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Michaels is recognized nationally and internationally as an authority on infections in immunocompromised hosts particularly after transplantation. She has served in numerous leadership positions locally and nationally including serving as chair of the United States’ Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) ad hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (2018-20) and joining the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)/OPTN Board of Directors in 2020. Dr. Michaels directs the Clinical Research Unit at UPMC Children’s Hospital with a wide range of studies including those looking at infections in immunocompromised patients, studying treatment of children with congenital cytomegalovirus, and looking at the epidemiology of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections in children including SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19. Her research interests include epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of infections in immunocompromised hosts particularly those undergoing transplantation; HIV early intervention projects for children, youth, women, and families; acute respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses in children; congenital cytomegalovirus; and vaccine preventable diseases. View Dr. Michaels' full list of publications from PubMed. Dr. Michaels is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Congenital Cytomegalovirus, Parainfluenza, Chickenpox, Infantile Neutropenia, and Splenectomy.

Dr. Deborah Persaud is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. She holds joint appointments in international health and molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A clinician and researcher specializing in the study and treatment of HIV-1 infection in children, she directs the pediatric infectious diseases fellowship program at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Dr. Persaud received her B.S. in chemistry from York College in New York. A 1985 graduate of the New York University School of Medicine, she trained in pediatrics at Babies Hospital/Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, where she was chief resident. She was an infectious disease fellow, an Aaron Diamond postdoctoral research fellow and a faculty member at New York University. She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1997, following a visiting lectureship at the Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. Her research interests include HIV/AIDS drug development and mother-to-child HIV transmission. Dr. Persaud is the scientific chair of the HIV CURE Scientific Committee of the International Maternal, Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) group. She was awarded the prestigious Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award for her HIV research and was recognized by Nature magazine in 2013 as one of “Ten People Who Mattered This Year.” She was recognized by Time magazine as among the “100 Most Influential People of 2013” for her pediatric HIV treatment research. Dr. Persaud is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Sepsis, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), and Pneumocystis Jiroveci Pneumonia.

Stephen Eppes is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Wilmington, Delaware. Dr. Eppes is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Congenital Syphilis, Kawasaki Disease, and Osteomyelitis in Children.

William Britt is a Pediatric Infectious Disease provider in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Britt is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Congenital Cytomegalovirus, Zika Virus Disease, Neonatal Herpes, and Rubella.

Anita McElroy, MD, PhD, is a pediatric infectious disease physician at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She is also an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases by the American Board of Pediatrics. Dr. McElroy earned her medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and her doctorate from the University of California. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in emerging viruses at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and a residency and fellowship in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Disease respectively, at Emory University. Dr. McElroy’s lab focuses on the study of emerging viruses, specifically, the mechanisms by which hemorrhagic fever viruses cause disease. She is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and the American Society of Virology. In her free time, she enjoys gardening and hiking with her husband and her chiweenie. View the full list of Dr. McElroy’s publications on PubMed. Dr. Mcelroy is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever, and Kyasanur Forest Disease.