Professor Pranita Tamma, MD

Dr. Tamma is a Professor of Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on: (a) elucidating the mechanisms of resistance in gram-negative organisms, (b) developing and enhancing laboratory methods to identify gram-negative resistant organisms to enable critically-ill patients to be placed on appropriate antibiotic therapy as early as possible, and (c) identifying optimal treatment strategies for patients infected with multidrug-resistant gram-negative infections. She is an Editor at Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a voting member of the Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Subgroup that provides international guidance on establishing antibiotic breakpoints and phenotypic and genotypic methods for identifying antimicrobial resistance, and the lead author of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Antimicrobial Resistance Treatment Guidance.