Shmuel Shoham MD

Shmuel Shoham, MD, is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases Program, Division of Infectious Diseases, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Shoham received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He then completed a residency in internal medicine followed by a fellowship in infectious diseases at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Shoham has more than 20 years of experience managing infections in highly immunocompromised patients. He also has extensive experience in prevention and treatment of severe respiratory viral infections. To date, Dr. Shoham has authored or co-authored over 150 original articles, book chapters, and topic reviews and serves as a reviewer and expert consultant to multiple journals, professional societies, and government agencies.

He is the Governor of the Washington, DC chapter of the American College of Physicians. He is also a member of the guideline committees for several national and international organizations including the Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines for COVID-19 and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer-Related Infections.