Background
Dr. Poonum S. Korpe is a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her area of clinical expertise is infectious diseases.
Dr. Korpe earned her M.D. at Eastern Virginia Medical School. She completed her residency and performed a fellowship in infectious diseases at University of Virginia Health System.
She is currently investigating the natural history of cryptosporidiosis in Bangladeshi children as a way to better understand human immune responses to the infection.