William Wright DO, MPH

Dr. William Floyd Wright, DO, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, who completed medical training residency in internal medicine and adult infectious diseases fellowship at Pennsylvania State University Medical School. He pursued further training in Clinical Pathology/Medical Microbiology at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (2009), and completed his Master's in Public Health (2007) at Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia.

His research interests include fever of unknown origin (FUO), antimicrobial resistance and therapeutic discoveries, molecular mechanisms of resistance, and the impact of diagnostic clinical microbiology on the practice of infectious diseases.

He currently serves as clinical director for the inpatient infectious diseases consult services and services for the management of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

His outpatient clinical practice focuses on general infectious diseases, infections in burn patients, infections in immunocompromised patients, and travel-related infections. He primarily sees patients at Johns Hopkins Greenspring Station and Johns Hopkins Bayview Outpatient offices.

His research interests are Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Medical Microbiology, Travel-Related Infections, Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy, Antimicrobial Resistance, Molecular Mechanisms of Resistance, and Immunocompromised.