Kelly Gebo, MD, MPH
Infectious Diseases
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Kelly Gebo
Primary Academic Title
Professor of Medicine
Background
Dr. Kelly Gebo is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She also earned an MPH in Epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital followed by an infectious diseases fellowship and two additional years of fellowship training as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, also at Hopkins. Her clinical and research interests include clinical outcomes and healthcare utilization research within infectious diseases.
She was Director of the JHU Public Health Studies Program between the Krieger School for Arts and Sciences and the Bloomberg School for Public Health, was an American Council of Education Fellow (hosted at the University of Pennsylvania) and was the inaugural Vice Provost for Education at Johns Hopkins. She was on sabbatical at Stanford University School of Medicine 2019-20 and served as the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer for the All of Us Research Program 2018-2020. She currently serves as the director of the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Scholars Program and is Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.
She has mentored undergraduate, public health and medical students, trainees, and junior faculty on infectious diseases and health services projects. She has authored or co-authored numerous chapters and over 250 papers. She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and has been awarded the David Levine Prize for mentoring at Johns Hopkins.
Research Interests
Health care utilization, Clinical outcomes research, HIV, COVID, Long COVID, mpox, quality improvement, health care policy
Lab Website
Kelly Gebo Lab
- Work in the Kelly Gebo Lab focuses on topics such as evidence-based practice, health utilization, policy generation, health disparities in patient access to health care, HIV/AIDS, aging and hepatitis. As part of the HIV Research Network (HIVRN), our lab gathers clinical and demographic data on HIV-infected patients to help develop a single, nationwide research database. In addition, our ongoing research explores evidence-based practice in relation to the management of hepatitis C as well as HIV/AIDS in mentally ill patients. We also investigate racial and gender disparities in patients who receive highly active antiretroviral therapy.
Research Summary
Dr. Kelly Gebo is a physician-scientist specializing in infectious diseases. Her research focuses on healthcare utilization, quality of care, and optimizing outcomes among persons with infectious diseases.
Dr. Gebo was co-PI of the HIV Research Network from 1996-2018 and is a site-PI for the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD). She served as the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer for the All of Us Research Program from 2018-2020 at the NIH where, with her team, she developed the scientific framework and scientific protocol roadmap for the project. She helped with developing the researcher workbench and with numerous precision medicine projects using the first cuts of the data. She is currently involved in a number of HIV research projects, in the Bartlett HIV Clinic and through the NA-ACCORD.
She is also involved the treatment of acute and Long COVID. She was m-PI of the Convalescent Plasma trial in 2020-2022, serves as a site PI for RECOVER-VITAL. She led the Johns Hopkins mpox research team 2022-2024.
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1717 East Monument Street, Park Building, Ground Level, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-1725
- fax: 443-287-4173
Expertise
Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, 2001Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Graduate School, MPH, 2000Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency, Medicine, 1998Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Medical Education, MD, 1995Board Certifications
Infectious Disease
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2001Insurance
- 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)