Paul Gisbert Auwaerter

Professor
Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Johns Hopkins Medicine
United States of America

Biography

Dr. Paul Auwaerter is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include Lyme disease, Epstein-Barr virus and fever of unknown origin. Dr. Auwaerter serves as the clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases. He is also the director of the Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases and the chief medical officer of the Point of Care-Information Technology (POC-IT) Center. He earned his M.D. from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. His research interests include tick-borne diseases and point of care information technology. Dr. Auwaerter serves on the Clinical Compensation Subcommittee for the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine. He was recognized with a Healthnetworks Service Excellence Award in 2014. He is a member of the American Society of Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Research Intrest

Tick borne diseases; Point of Care Information Technology

List of Publications
Melia, Michael T.; Paul M. Lantos; Paul G. Auwaerter. "Laboratory testing for Lyme neuroborreliosis – Reply." JAMA Neurology. 2015;72(1):126.
Cohen, Jason E.; Patricia Landis; Bruce J. Trock; Hiten D. Patel; Mark W. Ball; Paul G. Auwaerter; Edward Schaeffer; H. Ballentine Carter. "Fluoroquinolone resistance in the rectal carriage of men in an active surveillance cohort: Longitudinal analysis." Journal of Urology. 2015;193(2):552-556.
Feng, Jie; Paul G. Auwaerter; Ying Zhang. "Drug combinations against Borrelia burgdorferi persisters in vitro: Eradication achieved by using daptomycin, cefoperazone and doxycycline." PLoS ONE.  2015;10(3).
Auwaerter, Paul G. "Lyme Disease: Knowing Good Evidence to Help Inform Practice." Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 2015;29(2):xi-xvi.
Auwaerter, Paul G. "Editorial Commentary: Life after Lyme Disease." Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2015;61(2):248-250.