Center for Infectious Diseases Faculty and Staff

  
Anne Marie Rompalo, M.D., is an professor of medicine with joint appointments in epidemiology, population, family and reproductive health, and gynecology. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, authored/co-authored 20 book chapters and lectured for over 20 years in the fields of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. Rompalo has served as the medical director of the STD/HIV Prevention Training Center (PTC) for over 15 years and previously held the position of acting medical director for the Baltimore City Health Department sexually transmitted disease clinics. She also has been prinicpal investigator of a Baltimore HIV epidemiology research study--a nine-year longitudinal observation study of HIV-infected women.

Emily Erbelding, M.D., MPH, is board-certified in internal medicine and adult infectious diseases. As chief of clinical services for the Baltimore City Health Department sexually transmitted disease program, she has extensive clinical expertise in sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS. Erbelding also conducts epidemiologic research on sexually-transmitted disease and HIV risk and prevention.

Khalil Ghanem, M.D., is board-certified in internal medicine and adult infectious diseases. His research interests include sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS and the body's immune responses to such organisms. Ghanem offers clinical expertise in HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and bone/joint infections.

Robin McKenzie, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is board-certified in internal medicine and adult infectious diseases. She has extensive clinical expertise in general infectious disease, HIV/AIDS and travel medicine. Her research focuses on the prevention and treatment of enteric infections, with a particular interest in the evaluation of needle-free vaccines.