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Will Garneau

Will Garneau, MD, MPH

Emergency Medicine

Hospital Medicine

Highlights

Languages

  • English

Gender

Male

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:

  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

About Will Garneau

Primary Academic Title

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Background

Dr. William Garneau is a native of Durham, North Carolina. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in English and served as a middle school teacher in the Peace Corps in Namibia. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and earned a Master of Public Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He completed internal medicine residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine.

In 2023 he received a KL2 mentored Career Development award from the National Institutes of Health.  He is currently enrolled in the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Garneau's research uses observational data to study health outcomes including novel therapies and emerging illnesses.  His prior research includes studies of mpox and COVID-19.  He additionally serves as a lead informaticist with the Critical Path Institute's CURE ID project.

His clinical responsibilities include providing direct care to hospitalized patients, serving as a medicine consultant to surgical services, and attending on resident teaching teams.  In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Garneau is a Barker Firm Faculty member and teaches students in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as well as the Osler Medical Residency Training Program.

Research Interests

clinical outcomes, COVID-19, emerging diseases, informatics, mpox, OMOP

Selected Publications

  • Garneau WM, Jones-Beatty K, Ufua MO, Mostafa HH, Klein SL, Burd I, Gebo KA. Analysis of Clinical Outcomes of Pregnant Patients Treated With Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir for Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Nov 1;5(11):e2244141. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.44141. PMID: 36445705; PMCID: PMC9709643

  • Garneau WM, Knight AM, Pahwa AK. Letter to the Editor: Effectiveness of a Best Practice Alert to Reduce Telemetry Orders. JAMA Intern Med. 2019;179(6):844.

  • Hammami MB, Garibaldi B, Shah P, Liu G, Jain T, Chen PH, Kim AK, Avdic E, Petty B, Strout S, Fine DM, Niranjan-Azadi A, Garneau WM, Cameron AM, Monroy Trujillo JM, Gurakar A, Avery R. Clinical course of COVID-19 in a liver transplant recipient on hemodialysis and response to tocilizumab therapy: A case report. Am J Transplant. 2020 Aug;20(8):2254-2259. doi: 10.1111/ajt.15985. Epub 2020 Jun 3. PMID: 32359210; PMCID: PMC7267667

  • Manothummetha K, Chuleerarux N, Sanguankeo A, Kates OS, Hirankarn N, Thongkam A, Dioverti-Prono MV, Torvorapanit P, Langsiri N, Worasilchai N, Moonla C, Plongla R, Garneau WM, Chindamporn A, Nissaisorakarn P, Thaniyavarn T, Nematollahi S, Permpalung N. Immunogenicity and Risk Factors Associated With Poor Humoral Immune Response of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines in Recipients of Solid Organ Transplant: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Apr 1;5(4):e226822. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.6822. PMID: 35412626; PMCID: PMC9006106

  • Vick JB, Goetsch MR, Hochberg CH, Azadi JR, Hasan RK, West NE, Garneau WM. It All Depends: A Case of a Position-Dependent Intracardiac Shunt. Am J Med. 2022 Dec;135(12):1443-1446. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2022.07.008. Epub 2022 Jul 23. PMID: 35882284

Courses & Syllabi

Barker Firm Faculty, Osler Medical Residency Program

Honors

  • KL2 Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Award, NIH / National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, 5/4/23
  • Inductee, Gold Humanism Honor Society, 9/20/14
  • Inductee, Eugene S. Mayer Honor Society for Community Service, 6/30/13
  • Benjamin H. Kean Traveling Fellowship in Tropical Medicine, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 6/29/12

Lectures & Presentations

  • A descriptive study of the prevalence of virologic failure among patients receiving viral load testing at Lighthouse HIV clinic, Lilongwe, Malawi, Poster Presentation, Scientific Session, Student Research Day, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, 1/17/13
  • Clinical Outcomes Among In- And Outpatients With Mpox In An Urban Health System, Poster Session, International, Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, International Aids Society USA, Seattle, Washington, 2/21/23
  • Going Beyond Limited Evidence: An Approach for Guideline Panels to Help Reduce Overdiagnosis by Providing Additional Guidance, Oral Presentation, International Conference, Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 9/2/15
  • Hepatic Abscess: An unusual complication of Klippel- Trenaunay Syndrome, Poster Presentation, Academic Conference, American College of Physicians Maryland Annual Meeting, American College of Physicians Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 5/18/17
  • Hospitalist "niches": Small Grants To Promote Hospitalist Faculty Research, Poster Session, National, Converge, Society of Hospital Medicine, Austin, Texas, 3/27/23
  • IgA nephropathy initially presenting with rhabdomyolysis, Poster Presentation, Annual Meeting, American College of Physicians North Carolina Annual Meeting, American College of Physicians North Carolina, Durham, NC, 2/13/15
  • Order Wisely in the Hospital Setting: Cardiac Monitoring, Invited Presentation, Conference, High Value Practice Academic Alliance National Conference, High Value Practice Academic Alliance, Baltimore, MD, 11/15/19

Graduate Program Affiliations

  • Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation (GTCPI)

Memberships

  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • Society of Hospital Medicine

Locations

  1. The Johns Hopkins Hospital
    • 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287

    Expertise

    Education

    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Residency, Medicine, 2019

    University of North Carolina School of Medicine

    Medical Education, MD, 2016

    University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

    Graduate School, MPH, 2015

    Board Certifications

    Internal Medicine

    American Board of Internal Medicine, 2019

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