Pranita Tamma, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics 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 elucidating the mechanisms of resistance in gram-negative organisms, developing and enhancing laboratory methods to identify gram-negative resistant organisms to enable critically-ill patients to be placed on appropriate antibiotic therapy as early as possible, and identifying optimal treatment strategies for patients infected with multidrug-resistant gram-negative infections. She is the lead author of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Antimicrobial Resistance Treatment Guidance.