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Annie Antar

Annie Antar, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases

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Languages

  • English

Gender

Female

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:

  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

About Annie Antar

Primary Academic Title

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Background

Dr. Annie Antar is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  Her areas of clinical expertise include internal medicine and infectious diseases.  Her areas of research expertise include long COVID, long COVID in people living with HIV, HIV cure, and suboptimal CD4 response after antiretroviral therapy.

Dr. Antar earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.  She completed both her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Research Interests

HIV cure, HIV immune non-response, HIV latency

Selected Publications

  • Antar, AAR, Jenike, KM, Jang, S, et al. Longitudinal study reveals HIV-1-infected CD4+ T cell dynamics during long-term antiretroviral therapy. J Clin Invest. 2020; 130:3543-3559.

  • Antar, AAR, Konopka, JL, Campbell, JA, Henry, RA, Perdigoto, AL, Carter, BD, Pozzi, A, Abel, TW, Dermody, TS. Junctional adhesion molecule-A is required for hematogenous dissemination of reovirus. Cell Host Microbe, 2009; 5: 59-71.  

  • Antar, AAR, Yu, T, Pisanic, N, et al. (2021). Delayed rise of oral fluid antibodies, elevated BMI, and absence of early fever correlate with longer time to SARS-CoV-2 RNA clearance in a longitudinally sampled cohort of COVID-19 outpatients. Open Forum Infect. Dis. 2021 Apr 16. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab195

  • Bertagnolli, LN, White, JA, Simonetti, FR, Beg, SA, Lai, J, Tomescu, C, Murray, AJ, Antar, AAR, Zhang, H, Margolick, JB, Hoh, R, Deeks, SG, Tebas, P, Montaner, LJ, Siliciano, RF, Laird, GM, Siliciano, JD. The role of CD32 during HIV-1 infection. Nature, 2018; 561:E17-E19.

  • Bruner, KM, Wang, Z, Simonetti, FR, Bender, AM, Kwon, KJ, Sengupta, S, Fray, EJ, Beg, SA, Antar, AAR, Jenike, KM, Bertagnolli, LN, Capoferri, AA, Kufera, JT, Timmons, A, Nobles, C, Gregg, J, Wada, N, Ho, YC, Zhang, H, Margolick, JB, Blankson, JN, Deeks, SG, Bushman, FD, Siliciano, JD, Laird, GM, Siliciano, RF. A quantitative approach for measuring the reservoir of latent HIV-1 proviruses. Nature, 2019; 566:120-125.

Memberships

  • Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • American College of Physicians

Locations

  1. The Johns Hopkins Hospital
    • 1717 East Monument Street, Park Building, Ground Level, Baltimore, MD 21287

    Expertise

    Education

    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, 2018

    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Residency, Medicine, 2013

    Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

    Medical Education, MD, 2010

    Vanderbilt University

    Graduate School, PhD, 2008

    Board Certifications

    Infectious Disease

    American Board of Internal Medicine, 2017

    Internal Medicine

    American Board of Internal Medicine, 2013

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    • HealthSmart/Accel
    • Humana
    • Johns Hopkins Health Plans
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    • Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
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    • Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)