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.

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.

Matthew Laurens is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Laurens is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Malaria, Typhoid Fever, Salmonella Enterocolitis, and Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis. Dr. Laurens is currently accepting new patients.

Karen Kotloff is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Kotloff is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Diarrhea, Malnutrition, Viral Gastroenteritis, and Parainfluenza. Dr. Kotloff is currently accepting new patients.

Mark Travassos is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Travassos is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Malaria, Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis, Sepsis, and COVID-19. Dr. Travassos 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.

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.

Bill Kapogiannis is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Kapogiannis is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Malnutrition, Human Papillomavirus Infection, and Kaposi Sarcoma.

Pranita Tamma is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Tamma is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Osteomyelitis in Children, Bacterial Meningitis, Urinary Tract Infection in Children, and Diarrhea. Dr. Tamma is currently accepting new patients.

David Griffith is an Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatric Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Griffith is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Myelitis, AIDS Dysmorphic Syndrome, and AIDS Dementia Complex.

Milagritos Tapia is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Tapia is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Parainfluenza, Measles, Meningitis, and Bacterial Meningitis. Dr. Tapia is currently accepting new patients.

Niranjan Bhat is a Pediatric Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Bhat is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Tetanus, Pertussis, Yellow Fever, and H Influenzae Meningitis.

Nadia Sam-Agudu is a Pediatric Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Sam-Agudu is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Monkeypox and Tubal Ligation.

Dr. Salazar-Austin completed her undergraduate degree in Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She spent two years as a global health corps physician with the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative in eSwatini before completing her fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed a Master’s degree in epidemiology, focusing on clinical trials and evidence-based synthesis, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She joined the faculty of the division of pediatric infectious diseases in 2016. Dr. Salazar-Austin’s research focuses on combining existing and new biomedical interventions in tuberculosis with novel pediatric health care delivery models to improve implementation of TB preventive therapy in TB-exposed children and adolescents with and without HIV worldwide. Her top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Chickenpox, and High Blood Pressure in Infants.

Dr. Sick-Samuels grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed her undergraduate degree in Microbiology at the University of Maryland College Park, attended medical school at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, during which time she also obtained a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. After completion of fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, she joined the faculty of the division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Sick-Samuels is also an Associate Hospital Epidemiologist in the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control at the Johns Hopkins Hospital The focus of Dr. Sick-Samuel’s research is to describe the epidemiology of and to develop effective strategies preventing multidrug-resistant infections in children, particularly healthcare-associated infections. She is investigating how diagnostic stewardship may optimize the use of microbiology testing and associated antibiotic prescribing in hospitalized children. Her other interests include patient safety and quality improvement, and response to emerging or re-emerging infectious such as Zika virus, Measles and respiratory viruses like SARS-COV-2. CV https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/-/media/Johns%20Hopkins%20Childrens%20Center/documents/CVs/sick-samuels-cv.pdf Research Summary Dr. Sick-Samuels focuses on preventing healthcare-associated infections and diagnostic stewardship to optimize microbiology testing and antibiotic prescribing practices. She leads a multicenter study evaluating impact of clinical decision support to improve respiratory culture practices across 15 hospitals. Her top areas of expertise are Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), Pediatric Myocarditis, and Infantile Neutropenia.

Erica Prochaska is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed a residency in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She began her career as a pediatric hospitalist before going to Johns Hopkins for a pediatric infectious disease fellowship, after which she joined the Johns Hopkins faculty. Her top area of expertise is Infantile Neutropenia.

Nadine Peart-Akindele is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Her top areas of expertise are Measles, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), Parainfluenza, and Cerebral Hypoxia.

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Jain is a Professor of Pediatrics, Radiology and Radiological Science. He is also a Professor of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. His areas of clinical expertise include pediatric infectious diseases, tuberculosis / mycobacterial infections, and international health. Dr. Jain serves as the director of the Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research and is a member of the Center for TB Research at Johns Hopkins. He is also the Vice Chair for Basic & Translational Research for the Department of Pediatrics and the principal investigator for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases NIH T32 award that supports the fellowship program. Born in Halifax, Canada, Dr. Jain grew up in India. He received his medical degree in 1999 from All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, where he was a house officer in neuroradiology. He trained in pediatrics at Penn State Children’s Hospital, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, and the Tufts University School of Medicine. He was a clinical fellow in pediatric infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins before joining its faculty in 2005. Dr. Jain was named an associate professor of pediatrics in 2011 and professor of pediatrics, radiology and radiological science in 2017. The major focus of Dr. Jain’s research is on pathogenesis of infections, with a special emphasis on bacteria and high-containment pathogens such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (causative agent of tuberculosis) and recently SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Jain’s laboratory utilizes small animal models and cutting-edge molecular imaging technologies to develop and test novel radiopharmaceutical imaging methods (CT, PET, SPECT, MRI) to study disease pathogenesis as well as to develop precision medicine tools for the diagnosis and monitoring of infections. They have the unique capacity to image animals infected with high-containment pathogens (up to biosafety level-3). Several novel tracers developed in his laboratory are now being tested in first-in-human studies. Dr. Jain is also involved with developing innovative technologies to improve childhood immunizations and health of young children in the developing world. Dr. Jain is funded through several NIH and other grants. Notably, he is also the recipient of the prestigious NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2009) and the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (2014). Dr. Jain is the founding member and past chair of the Infectious Diseases subgroup and current board member of the World Molecular Imaging Society. He serves as a reviewer for multiple scientific journals and NIH study panels.

James Campbell is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. His top areas of expertise are Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), Toxic Shock Syndrome, and Parainfluenza.

Andrea Berry is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Her top areas of expertise are Arachnoiditis and Meningitis. Dr. Berry is currently accepting new patients.

Robert Ancona is a Pediatric Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland.

Susan Lipton is a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Lipton is currently accepting new patients.

Laura Guay is a Pediatric Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland.

Tafadzwa Kasambira is a Pediatric Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland.