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Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Tamma is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and the Director of the Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on: (a) elucidating the mechanisms of resistance in gram-negative organisms, (b) developing and enhancing rapid phenotypic and genotypic methods to identify gram-negative resistance to enable critically-ill patients to be placed on appropriate antibiotic therapy as early as possible, and (c) identifying optimal treatment strategies for patients infected with multidrug-resistant gram-negative infections.