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 HIV, healthcare utilization, aging with HIV, outcomes research, and policy generation.
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 in numerous COVID-specific research projects including evaluating serology, conducting surveys and testing the efficacy of convalescent plasma in the prevention of COVID complications.
She has mentored undergraduate, public health and medical students, trainees, and junior faculty on HIV and health services projects. She has authored or co-authored numerous chapters and over 175 papers.
Research Interests
Evidence based practice, Health disparities in access to care, Health utilization, Hepatitis, HIV and aging, Outcomes research, Policy generation
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. Gebo has been actively involved with the HIV Research Network (HIVRN), which is comprised of 18 medical institutions across the United States treating more than 16,000 patients with HIV disease. Each institution assembles data on the clinical and demographic characteristics of its HIV-infected patients. Participating institutions then send the information to the data coordinating center located at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where the information is consolidated into a single uniform database. Dr. Gebo, a coauthor on a study from the sample found that compared to healthy children in the United States, HIV-infected children are hospitalized 10 times more often and have three times as many yearly outpatient visits. Although hospitalization rates for children with HIV were slightly lower than that of HIV-infected adults, they had 30 percent more outpatient visits.
Other research has involved evidence based practice related to the management of Hepatitis C, HIV in the mentally ill, and racial and gender disparities in receipt of HAART.
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)