Chloe Thio is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University with joint appointments in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Thio is a Fellow in the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American College of Physicians. She is also a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease and was awarded membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
She received a BA degree from University of Pennsylvania and an MD from Yale University School of Medicine. This was followed by an Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, a year as a Visiting Physician at Sassoon Hospital in Pune, India, and then a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University. During her fellowship, she studied host genetic factors associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV) outcomes after acute HBV infection and began her research in HIV-HBV co-infection. In 2000, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Diseases Division of Johns Hopkins University and also had a clinical appointment at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has remained on faculty at Johns Hopkins since then.
Dr. Thio’s laboratory has several main focuses including (1) virology, epidemiology, and translational research in HIV-hepatitis B virus (HBV) co-infection in the United States and international settings including Nigeria, China, Thailand, and India, (2) host genetic factors that are associated with recovery from hepatitis B and hepatitis C infections, and (3) translational research to aid in the discovery of a cure for chronic hepatitis B. This translational research involves virology in liver tissue of people with chronic hepatitis B and immunological studies of people with acute hepatitis B. She has sustained federal funding for over 20 years in the hepatitis B field, has over 150 peer-reviewed publications, and has mentored numerous students and post-doctoral fellows. She maintains an active clinical practice where she sees patients with HIV and with HIV-viral hepatitis. She is the Chair of the Hepatitis B Section for the Department of Health and Human Services Guidelines for Adult and Adolescent Opportunistic Infections and is a committee member of the HBV Forum.
