Professional Title
Professor
Departments / Divisions
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Pediatrics Infectious Disease
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Microbiology and Molecular Immunology
Email: dpers@jhmi.edu
Biography
Dr. Persaud is a clinician and researcher specializing in the study and treatment of HIV-1 infection in children and adolescents. A 1985 graduate of the New York University School of Medicine, she trained in pediatrics at Babies Hospital/Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, where she was chief resident. She was an infectious disease fellow, an Aaron Diamond Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and a faculty member at New York University. She joined Johns Hopkins’ faculty in 1997 following a visiting lectureship at the Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya.
Education
Medical School:
New York University School of Medicine
Residencies:
Babies Hospital/Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center – Pediatrics (chief resident)
Fellowships:
New York University School of Medicine – Infectious Diseases
Special Interests
HIV in Children
Research Focus: Mechanisms of HIV persistence in reservoirs children, selection and transmission of drug resistant HIV during chemoprophylaxis for prevention of mother-to-child transmission, and their implications for antiretroviral therapy. And therapeutic HIV vaccines and the development of field-friendly assays for infant diagnosis and drug resistance testing.
