Damani Arnold Piggott, MD, PhD
Infectious Diseases
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Damani Arnold Piggott
Professional Titles
- Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Diversity and Partnerships
- Director, Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative
Primary Academic Title
Associate Professor of Medicine
Background
Dr. Damani Piggott is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the inaugural Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Diversity and Partnerships and Director of the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. His areas of clinical expertise include HIV and infectious diseases.
Dr. Piggott has worked on clinical and research projects in urban and rural communities in the United States, the Caribbean, West Africa and South Africa. His research centers on understanding the biological, epidemiologic and social determinant pathways necessary to improve survival and quality of life for persons aging with HIV, with particular focus on the investigation of frailty and other aging phenotypes.
Dr. Piggott serves as Co-Director of the Kennedy Krieger Institute James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases RISE Fellowship Program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is a founding member of the Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Equity Task Force of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Dr. Piggott received his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in Immunology from Yale University. He completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital and fellowship training in infectious diseases and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins.
Selected Publications
Piggott DA, Bandeen-Roche K, Mehta SH, Brown TT, Yang H, Walston JD, Leng SX, Kirk GD. Frailty Transitions, Inflammation and Mortality among Persons Aging with HIV Infection and Injection Drug Use. AIDS 2020; 34: 1217-25
Piggott DA, Muzaale AD, Mehta SH, Brown TT, Patel KV, Leng SX, Kirk GD. Frailty, HIV Infection, and Mortality in an Aging Cohort of Injection Drug Users. PLoS ONE 2013; 8: e54910
Piggott DA, Muzaale AD, Varadhan RD, Mehta SH, Westergaard RP, Brown TT, Patel KV, Walston JD, Leng SX, Kirk GD. Frailty and Cause-Specific Hospitalization among Persons Aging with HIV Infection and Injection Drug Use. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2017; 72: 389-94
Piggott DA, Tuddenham S. The Gut Microbiome and Frailty. Transl Res 2020; S1931-5244(20)30062-1
Macias Gil R, Marcelin JR, Zuniga-Blanco B, Marquez C, Mathew T, Piggott DA. COVID-19 Pandemic: Disparate Health Impact on the Hispanic/Latinx Population in the United States. J Infect Dis 2020; 222: 1592-5
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, 2012Yale New Haven Health
Residency, Medicine and Pediatrics, 2009Yale University School of Medicine
Medical Education, MD, 2005Yale University School of Medicine
Graduate School, PhD, 2004Board Certifications
Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics, 2015Infectious Disease
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2011Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)