Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, MBA

Professional Titles

• Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
• Director, Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases
• Chief Medical Officer, Point of Care-Information Technology (POC-IT) Center

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Medicine

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases
• Heart and Vascular Institute
• Point of Care Information Technology Center

Research Interests

Point of Care Information Technology, Tick borne diseases

Lab Website

Paul Auwaerter Lab

• Research in the Paul Auwaerter Lab focuses on tick-borne diseases, include Lyme disease. We're also interested in point-of-care information technology. Recent research includes investigating the significance of positive test results for Lyme disease in low-prevalence regions and examining the geographic expansion of Lyme disease in the southeastern U.S. from 2000 to 2014.

Selected Publications

• Auwaerter, Paul G. “Editorial Commentary: Life after Lyme Disease.” Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2015;61(2):248-250. 

• Auwaerter, Paul G. “Lyme Disease: Knowing Good Evidence to Help Inform Practice.” Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 2015;29(2):xi-xvi.

• 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).

• Melia, Michael T.; Paul M. Lantos; Paul G. Auwaerter. “Laboratory testing for Lyme neuroborreliosis – Reply.” JAMA Neurology. 2015;72(1):126.

Honors

Healthnetworks Service Excellence Award, 1/1/14

Memberships

• American Society of Microbiology
• Infectious Diseases Society of America

Professional Activities

Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine, Clinical Compensation Subcommittee