Bio

“Leveraging Modern Diagnostics to Personalize Treatment for Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis”

Jeff Tornheim, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and International Health in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University and a TB clinician at the Baltimore City Health Department. He completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine and a clinical fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before joining the faculty in 2017. For the past 20 years he has engaged in clinical care, physician education, and translational research in India, South America, and sub-Saharan Africa. He is a member of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group Tuberculosis Transformative Science Group, the IMPAACT Network TB Scientific Committee, and a principal investigator in the RePORT India Consortium. His research focuses on cohort epidemiology and implementation of multi-omic diagnostic tools for personalized therapy of drug-resistant tuberculosis, combining whole genome sequencing, expanded susceptibility testing, and therapeutic drug monitoring to improve treatment outcomes while reducing side effects.

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