Varun Badami, MD

Dr. Catherine Simpson is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include internal medicine, pulmonary and critical care medicine, and pulmonary vascular diseases. Dr. Simpson earned her M.D. from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Johns Hopkins, where she also performed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine and earned her M.H.S. degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Rebecca Dezube is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise are cystic fibrosis and critical care medicine. She sees patients in the adult cystic fibrosis (CF) clinic as well as in the medical intensive care unit (MICU). She received her A.B. from Harvard University and earned her M.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, where she also served as an Assistant Chief of Service. She also trained as a fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins and served as the Chief Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Dezube joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2017.

Anna Powell, M.D., M.S., an assistant professor based on the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center campus has advanced training in infectious disease. She has expertise in reproductive infectious disease and vulvovaginal disorders, including HIV during pregnancy, pre-exposure prophylaxis, vaginitis and bacterial vaginosis.Dr. Powell has research interest in preterm birth among women living with HIV, and she was a recipient of a prestigious Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) awards. She is now funded through a Career Development Award (K23) from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the vaginal microbiome and metabolites of preterm birth among women with and without HIV. Her BIRCWH project focuses on how markers of microbial translocation, vitamin D and progesterone correlate with preterm birth among women who are pregnant and living with HIV.Dr. Powell completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Drexel University College of Medicine-Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia. She continued her specialization in reproductive infectious disease through a fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina, where she also obtained a master’s in clinical research.