Monkeypox: Keeping Up With a Moving Target

Faculty

Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, MBA, FIDSA

Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases​​
Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Professor of Medicine​​
Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases
​​ Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Paul G. Auwaerter is the Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine serving as the Clinical Director for the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases.

He serves as the Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Point of Care-Information Technology (POC-IT) Center producing the Johns Hopkins ABX (Antibiotic), JH HIV, JH Osler, JH Psychiatry and JH Diabetes Guides. As managing editor for the ABX Guide for over 14 years, this guide has grown to be a standard reference for ID-related clinical decision support and rationale antimicrobial management. Dr. Auwaerter’s research and clinical interests include improving the diagnosis and care for patients with Lyme disease as well as interests in surgical infections, Epstein-Barr virus, and antibiotic resistance. This year he is serving as Immediate Past-President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the largest professional society worldwide related to infectious diseases.