Dr. Stephen Berry is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include infectious diseases. He serves as the associate vice chair for quality, safety and service in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Berry graduated summa cum laude from Emory University and joined the Peace Corps to work as a science teacher in Malawi. He then completed medical school, an internal medicine residency and a chief resident year at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He performed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins as well as a Ph.D. from the graduate training program in clinical investigation. Dr. Berry joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2010. Dr. Berry’s research focuses on health care quality, safety and costs among persons living with HIV. MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (2002)

Dr. Berry’s research focuses on health care quality, safety and costs among persons living with HIV. He has led observational and interventional studies of sexually transmitted infection screening in HIV clinics with an emphasis on improving performance to meet national guidelines. He has conducted numerous studies of rates and reasons for hospitalizations and of 30-day readmissions among persons living with HIV, examining data from Johns Hopkins and from a consortium of peer institutions.