FACULTY

Dr. John G. Bartlett
Editor in Chief
Hopkins AIDS Service

John G. Bartlett, MD, is the lead author of the Medical Management of HIV. He received his medical degree from Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse in 1959 and completed training in Internal Medicine at Peter Bent Brigham in Boston and the University of Alabama in Birmingham. His US military service included one year on a tropical disease ward in Vietnam, and this persuaded him to pursue infectious diseases. His went on to complete his infectious disease fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, where in 1970 he joined the faculty. He left UCLA for a position at Tufts University School of Medicine in 1975 before moving to The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1980. While at Hopkins, he has served as Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases. Dr Bartlett has also been the principal investigator for $30 million in research funds at Hopkins and he has written more than 600 articles or chapters and 13 books (38 editions).

Now head of the Johns Hopkins AIDS Service, Dr Bartlett is an internationally renowned authority on AIDS and other infectious diseases. For 27 years, he has been a leader for The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s worldwide efforts to understand, prevent and treat AIDS.

He received the prestigious 2005 Maxwell Finland Award for scientific achievement from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

Dr Bartlett was the first to direct clinical trials in Baltimore of new treatments that prevent HIV from replicating, and he pioneered the development of dedicated inpatient and outpatient medical care for patients with HIV. In 1984, when AIDS was still in its infancy, he helped start a small clinic within the Moore Clinic to serve a small group of gay men with AIDS, which along with providing research data about how the disease spread, grew to become the centerpiece of The Johns Hopkins AIDS Service; it is now the largest program for HIV care in Maryland.

Bartlett cochaired the national committee that drafted the first and all subsequent treatment guidelines for HIV-infected patients. He counsels numerous medical societies and health ministries around the world on infectious diseases in general and on AIDS.

Bartlett's research interests have dealt with anaerobic infections, pathogenic mechanisms of Bacteroides fragilis, anaerobic pulmonary infections, and Clostridium difficile-associated colitis. Since joining Hopkins in 1980, his major interests have been HIV/AIDS, managed care of patients with HIV infection, pneumonia (community acquired) and, most recently, bioterrorism. Clinically his interests include HIV primary care, general infectious diseases, HIV and hemophilia, and HIV managed care.

Research and Professional Experience

• HIV/AIDS
• Diarrhea (C difficile-associated diarrhea and antibiotic-associated diarrhea)
• Pneumonia (community-acquired)
• Anaerobic infections

Clinical Interests:

• HIV primary care
• General infectious diseases
• HIV and hemophilia
• HIV managed care

Selected Publications

292 peer-reviewed articles
78 nonpeer-reviewed articles
256 chapters, reviews and letters
13 books, (41 editions)

Editorial Boards:

Anaerobe
American Journal of Medicine
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice - Editor
Journal of Clinical Illness
Medicine - Associate Editor
Microecology and Disease
The Hopkins HIV Report - Editor

Keywords

Founding Director, Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies, HIV/AIDS,
Diarrhea (C difficile - associated diarrhea and antibiotic-associated diarrhea)
Pneumonia (community-acquired)
Anaerobic infections
HIV primary care
General infectious diseases
HIV and hemophilia
HIV Managed Care