John Szumowski, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

I am a clinician educator based at the San Francisco VA and the SF DPH TB Clinic. Within ID, my main clinical interests are focused on HIV, mycobacterial infections, and coccidioidomycosis.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training Universit of California 01/2021
• Infectious Diseases University of Washington 06/2013
• Internal Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 06/2010
• MD Harvard Medical School 06/2007
• MPH Quantitative Methods Harvard School of Public Health 06/2007
• BS Biology Haverford College 5/2002

Interests

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• TB
• HIV
• coccidioidomycosis
• Medical education

Publications (18)

Top publication keywords:
Mycobacterium tuberculosisDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialHomosexuality, MaleTuberculosis, PulmonaryLymphogranuloma VenereumUlcerProctocolitisAntitubercular AgentsOxazolesTuberculosis, Multidrug-ResistantSoft Tissue InfectionsVerapamilStaphylococcal InfectionsStaphylococcal Skin InfectionsNitroimidazoles

• 48-week viral suppression rates in people with HIV starting long-acting CAB/RPV with initial viremia.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2024 Hickey MD, Gistand N, Grochowski J, Mayorga-Munoz F, Imbert E, Szumowski JD, Oskarsson J, Shiels M, Dilworth S, Appa A, Havlir DV, Gandhi M, Christopoulos K
• Identifying Implementation Determinants and Strategies for Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir-Rilpivirine in People With HIV Who Are Virally Unsuppressed.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2024 Hickey MD, Grochowski J, Mayorga-Munoz F, Oskarsson J, Imbert E, Spinelli M, Szumowski JD, Appa A, Koester K, Dauria EF, McNulty M, Colasanti J, Havlir DV, Gandhi M, Christopoulos KA
• Experience With Four-Month Rifapentine and Moxifloxacin-Based Tuberculosis Treatment in San Francisco.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2024 Louie JK, Agraz-Lara R, Velásquez GE, Phillips A, Szumowski JD
• A Dose-Finding Study to Guide Use of Verapamil as an Adjunctive Therapy in Tuberculosis.
  Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 2023 Padmapriyadarsini C, Szumowski JD, Akbar N, Shanmugasundaram P, Jain A, Bathragiri M, Pattnaik M, Turuk J, Karunaianantham R, Balakrishnan S, Pati S, Kumar AKH, Rathore MK, Raja J, Naidu KR, Horn J, …
• Prevalence of Undiagnosed Monkeypox Virus Infections during Global Mpox Outbreak, United States, June-September 2022.
  Emerging infectious diseases 2023 Minhaj FS, Singh V, Cohen SE, Townsend MB, Scott H, Szumowski J, Hare CB, Upadhyay P, Reddy J, Alexander B, Baird N, Navarra T, Priyamvada L, Wynn N, Carson WC, Odafe S, Guagliardo SAJ, Sims E, Rao AK…

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• Demonstration Project of Long-Acting Antiretroviral Therapy in a Diverse Population of People With HIV.
  Annals of internal medicine 2023 Gandhi M, Hickey M, Imbert E, Grochowski J, Mayorga-Munoz F, Szumowski JD, Oskarsson J, Shiels M, Sauceda J, Salazar J, Dilworth S, Nguyen JQ, Glidden DV, Havlir DV, Christopoulos KA
• First Demonstration Project of Long-Acting Injectable Antiretroviral Therapy for Persons With and Without Detectable Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Viremia in an Urban HIV Clinic.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2023 Christopoulos KA, Grochowski J, Mayorga-Munoz F, Hickey MD, Imbert E, Szumowski JD, Dilworth S, Oskarsson J, Shiels M, Havlir D, Gandhi M
• Association Between Homelessness and Group A Streptococcus Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Among Hospitalized Dermatology Consult Patients.
  JAMA dermatology 2022 Zakaria A, Abuabara K, Szumowski J, Kim-Lim P, Fox LP, Amerson EH, Chang AY
• Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection as a Rare Cause of Cerebral Mass Lesion and IRIS in a Patient With AIDS: Case Report and Review of the Literature.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2021 Lane-Donovan C, Bainbridge E, Szumowski J, Kerkhoff AD, Peluso MJ
• Lymphogranuloma venereum as a cause of persistent perianal ulcers.
  BMJ case reports 2021 Szumowski JD, Marquez C
• Disseminated Mycobacterium bovis Infection Complicated by Meningitis and Stroke: A Case Report.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2020 Clifford KM, Szumowski JD
• A 36-Year-Old Woman From West Africa With Newly Diagnosed AIDS and a Spinal Cord Mass
  Clinical Infectious Diseases 2018 M.M. Hitchcock, I. Aggarwal, A. Chang, J.J. Weiel, and J.D. Szumowski
• Profile of delamanid for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
  Drug design, development and therapy 2015 Szumowski JD, Lynch JB
• Verapamil, and its metabolite norverapamil, inhibit macrophage-induced, bacterial efflux pump-mediated tolerance to multiple anti-tubercular drugs.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2014 Adams KN, Szumowski JD, Ramakrishnan L
• Antimicrobial efflux pumps and Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug tolerance: evolutionary considerations.
  Current topics in microbiology and immunology 2013 Szumowski JD, Adams KN, Edelstein PH, Ramakrishnan L
• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization, behavioral risk factors, and skin and soft-tissue infection at an ambulatory clinic serving a large population of HIV-infected men who have sex with men.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2009 Szumowski JD, Wener KM, Gold HS, Wong M, Venkataraman L, Runde CA, Cohen DE, Mayer KH, Wright SB
• Emergence of multidrug-resistant, community-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone USA300 in men who have sex with men.
  Annals of internal medicine 2008 Diep BA, Chambers HF, Graber CJ, Szumowski JD, Miller LG, Han LL, Chen JH, Lin F, Lin J, Phan TH, Carleton HA, McDougal LK, Tenover FC, Cohen DE, Mayer KH, Sensabaugh GF, Perdreau-Remington F
• Treatment and outcomes of infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at an ambulatory clinic.
  Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2006 Szumowski JD, Cohen DE, Kanaya F, Mayer KH