Matt Robinson, MD

Baltimore, Maryland
Role: 
Scholar
Infectious Disease Fellow
Matt Robinson, MD

Matthew Robinson, MD, is a clinical fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research interests include evaluating the etiology of febrile illness in resource limited settings using conventional and novel diagnostic techniques. Matt is working with Dr. Gupta and Dr. Mave to assess the etiology of febrile illness in patients presenting to a hospital in Pune, India. After completing his undergraduate and medical training at Northwestern University, he completed internal medicine residency at New York University.

During medical school, he worked for one year at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, China under a Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship.  He also served as a clinician educator in internal medicine in Gulu, Uganda at the Gulu University Faculty of Medicine as a Global Health Service Partnership volunteer. His other global health experiences have included clinical work in Rwanda and dengue virus research in Peru. He is currently pursuing an infectious diseases fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
 
 
 
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Faculty Mentor(s): 
Amita Gupta, MD, MHS
Vidya Mave, MD, MPH

Zika Surveillance among Antenatal Clinic Outpatients in BJ Government Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune, India

Post Date: 
2017-08-31
Country: 
India
India leads the world in dengue cases. CCGHE researchers are keeping an eye on Zika among pregnant women, which is transmitted by the same mosquito & can cause devastating birth defects.

Antimicrobial Use and Diagnosis among Hospitalized Febrile Patients in Pune, India

Post Date: 
2017-08-07
Country: 
India
Antimicrobial resistance, a leading threat to human health, is enabled by unnecessary antibiotic use. Strategies to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use in India, the world’s largest antibiotic consumer, are urgently needed. Although most patients hospitalized in India with acute febrile illness...

Healthcare-Associated Sepsis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Pune, India

Post Date: 
2017-01-17
Country: 
India
Johns Hopkins neonatologist Dr. Julia Johnson is lead investigator for a systematic study of the epidemiology of neonatal sepsis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in tertiary care facilities in India. This study is providing important baseline data to serve as the basis for future interventional...

Acute Febrile Illness and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Pune, India: Substudy on the Characterization of the Human Virome

Post Date: 
2016-02-21
Country: 
India
Objective 1: To use novel molecular techniques to characterize the human virome in the circulating blood of patients in clinical settings who presented to an acute care setting with an acute febrile illness and in whom a diagnosis cannot be achieved by conventional methods. Healthy controls will be...

Acute Febrile Illness and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Pune, India: Substudy on Community Health-Seeking Behavior Among Patients Admitted with Acute Febrile Illness

Post Date: 
2015-05-28
Objectives: To describe the patterns of health-care seeking behavior and prior outpatient care among patients admitted with acute febrile illness to Sassoon Hospital To determine the effects of outpatient behaviors and prior treatments on the antimicrobial resistance patterns of stool colonizing...

Acute Febrile Illness and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Pune, India

Post Date: 
2013-01-10
Country: 
India
Evaluate etiology of acute fever and bacterial drug resistance patterns among adults and children in India.

BWI CTU: Baltimore-Washington-India Clinical Trials Unit

Post Date: 
2007-02-02
Country: 
India
United States
Comprising clinical trial sites at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Whitman Walker Health in Washington, DC, and the BJGMC-CCGHE collaboration in Pune, India, the Baltimore-Washington-India Clinical Trials Unit (BWI-CTU) is one of only 25 international HIV/TB clinical trial sites funded by the...

Presence of human hepegivirus-1 in a cohort of people who inject drugs

Post Date: 
2017-06-07
Publication: 
Annals of Internal Medicine
Findings on the sensitivity of next-generation metagenomic sequencing for discovery of new viral infections.

High burden of antimicrobial resistance and mortality among adults and children with community-onset bacterial infections in India

Post Date: 
2017-04-15
Publication: 
Journal of Infectious Diseases
Country: 
India
Of 133 isolates from 115 patients, 50% were multi-drug resistant; of 33 isolates tested for carbapenem susceptibility, 36% were resistant.

Reducing uncertainty for acute febrile illness in resource-limited settings: the current diagnostic landscape

Post Date: 
2017-03-27
Publication: 
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
After decades of slow progress in diagnostics for acute febrile illness in resource-limited settings, a wave of converging advancements will enable clinicians in resource limited settings to reduce uncertainty for the diagnosis of acute febrile illness.

Presentation, Etiology, and Outcome of Febrile Indian Patients Differs by HIV Status

Post Date: 
2016-11-16
Presentation Location: 
Atlanta, GA
Event & Convener: 
65th Annual Meeting, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Poster presentation. Kadam D, Robinson M , Kagal A, Bharadwaj R, Raichur P, Kanade S, Sachs J, Gupte N, Gupta A, Mave V.

The Impact of Health Seeking Behavior on Community-acquired Multi-drug Resistant Stool Colonization among Hospitalized Febrile Illness Patients in Pune, India

Post Date: 
2016-10-29
Presentation Location: 
New Orleans, LA
Country: 
India
Event & Convener: 
ID Week 2016
Poster Session: Antibiotic Stewardship: Outpatient and ED. Sachs J , Bharadwaj R, Khadse S, Kadam D, Kagal A, Shaikh N, Shingada K, Raichur P, Kanade S, Suryanvanshi N, Gupta A, Robinson M, Mave V.

Etiology of Acute Febrile Illness among Hospitalized Adults and Children at a Public Tertiary-Care Center in Pune, India

Post Date: 
2016-10-27
Presentation Location: 
New Orleans, LA
Country: 
India
Event & Convener: 
ID Week 2016
Poster Abstract Session: Oh One World: Infections from Near and Far. Robinson M , Balasubramanian U, Raichur P, Kadam D, Khadse S, Marbaniang I, Kanade S, Sachs J, Basavaraj A, Bharadwaj R, Kinikar A, Kulkarni V, Kagal A, Gupta A, Mave V

Clinical, Social, and Meteorological Factors Associated with Dengue and Malaria Diagnosis in Adults in Pune, India

Post Date: 
2016-03-03
Presentation Location: 
Hyderabad, India
Country: 
India
Event & Convener: 
17th International Congress on Infectious Diseases
Poster Session. Kadam D, Raichur P, Chandanwale A, Joshi S, Robinson M, Marbaniang I, Kagal A, Bharadwaj, Mave V.

Frequent Resistant Gram Negative Rod Stool Colonization among Patients Admitted with Acute Febrile Illness in Pune, India

Post Date: 
2016-03-03
Presentation Location: 
Hyderabad, India
Country: 
India
Event & Convener: 
17th International Congress on Infectious Diseases
Poster Presentation. Bharadwaj RS, Robinson M, Marbaniang I, Kagal A, Raichur PA, Kulkami V, Balasubramanian U, Onawale P, Kanade S, Nelson G, Gupta A, Mave V.

Indo-Hopkins Partnership Seeks Causes of Sepsis in the NICU

Post Date: 
2017-08-10
Sepsis among newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a big problem in India, and a complex one to untangle.

Up Close: Matthew Robinson

Post Date: 
2016-02-01
Looking for Causes of Fever in India “The most common reason Indians go to the doctor is for fever. The list of potential causes for fever in India and other low and middle income countries in tropical settings is extensive.” Matt Robinson, MD, is a Clinical Fellow whose research in India aims to...