Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins
Robin Avery MD, FIDSA, FAST is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases (ID), Education Director for the Transplant/Oncology ID Program at Johns Hopkins, and Director of the Johns Hopkins part of the NIH/Johns Hopkins combined Transplant/Oncology Infectious Diseases Fellowship. Earlier in her 32-year career, she was the founding Section Head of Transplant ID at Cleveland Clinic. She is a past chair of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) Infectious Disease Community of Practice and has served on many guidelines committees for transplant and ID societies. Her areas of interest include transplant-related viral infections, novel therapies for CMV, post-transplant hypogammaglobulinemia, COVID therapeutics, strategies for safer living after transplantation, and most recently, prevention and treatment of infections in xenotransplantation. She was awarded the 2017 Best Consulting Physician Award at Johns Hopkins, the 2022 AST ID Community of Practice Robert Rubin Award, the 2023 AST Mentorship Award, and the 2025 Johns Hopkins Excellence in Clinical Service and Professionalism Award.