Joe Metmowlee Garland is the Medical Director of the Infectious Diseases and Immunology Center at The Miriam Hospital. He oversees the outpatient services of the Infectious Diseases Division, including the federally-funded Ryan White HIV care program which cares for over 2,000 people living with HIV; the outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) program; the travel medicine clinic; and the outpatient infectious diseases consultation service. Across all clinics, the Division sees over 20,000 outpatient visits per year. He also provides inpatient infectious diseases consultation at the Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital. Dr. Garland has clinical expertise in primary care, HIV care, general infectious diseases, travel medicine, and care of immigrant populations. He co-chaired the state-wide 90-90-90 collaborative for improving HIV outcomes in Rhode Island, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of HIV Medicine. As an educator, Dr. Garland is the course director for clinical rotations in the Internal Medicine residency program and for Brown medical students at the Immunology Center and at a local community health center, Clinica Esperanza. He is core faculty in the infectious diseases and HIV medicine fellowship programs. Dr. Garland received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and completed residency and fellowship training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He was on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania from 2011 through 2015, and joined the faculty at Brown in 2015.
Garland JM, Mayan H, Kantor R. "Treatment of Advanced HIV in the Modern Era." Drugs, vol. 85, no. 7, 2025, pp. 883-909. |
Amy L Brotherton, Ann-Marie Coroniti, Diane K Ayuninjam, Martha C Sanchez, Gregorio Benitez, Joseph M Garland. "Pharmacist-Driven Rapid Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy Decreases Time to Viral Suppression in People with HIV." Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2024. |
Gurley A, O'Brien T, Garland JM, Finn A. "Lactococcus lactis bacteraemia in a patient on probiotic supplementation therapy." BMJ Case Reports, vol. 14, no. 7, 2021. |
Garland JM. "An Update on Meningococcal Vaccination." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 103, no. 6, 2020, pp. 41-43. |
Garland JM, Levinson A, Wing E. "Care of Critically Ill Patients with HIV." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2020. |
Min S, Gillani F, Aung S, Garland JM, Beckwith CG. "Evaluating HIV viral rebound among persons on suppressive antiretroviral treatment in the era of ‘Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U)’." Open Forum Infectious Diseases, vol. 7, no. 12, 2020, pp. ofaa529. |
Kalligeros M, Tashima KT, Mylona EK, Rybak N, Flanigan TP, Farmakiotis D, Beckwith CG, Sanchez M, Neill M, Johnson JE, Garland JM, Aung S, Byrd KM, O'Brien T, Pandita A, Aridi J, Macias Gil R, Larkin J, Shehadeh F, Mylonakis E. "Remdesivir Use Compared to Supportive Care in Hospitalized Patients with Severe COVID-19: A Single-Center Experience." Open Forum Infectious Diseases, vol. 7, no. 10, 2020, pp. ofaa319. |
Katrina M Byrd, Curt G Beckwith, Joseph M Garland, Jennie E Johnson, Su Aung, Susan Cu-Uvin, Dimitrios Farmakiotis, Timothy Flanigan, Fizza S Gillani, Raul Macias-Gil, Maria Mileno, Bharat Ramratnam, Natasha R Rybak, Martha Sanchez, Karen Tashima, Eleftherios Mylonakis, Rami Kantor. "SARS-CoV-2 and HIV coinfection: clinical experience from Rhode Island, United States." J Int AIDS Soc, vol. 23, no. 7, 2020. |
Farmakiotis, Dimitrios, Weiss, Zoe, Brotherton, Amy L., Morrissey, Paul, Gohh, Reginald, Vieira, Kendra, Taylor, Lynn E., Garland, Joseph M. "Successful Kidney Transplantation in a Recipient Coinfected with Hepatitis C Genotype 2 and HIV from a Donor Infected with Hepatitis C Genotype 1 in the Direct-Acting Antiviral Era." Case Reports in Hepatology, vol. 2020, 2020, pp. 1-6. |
Chan PA, Montgomery M, Marak T, Bertrand T, Flanigan TP, Fernández AJ, Alexander-Scott N, Garland JM, Nunn AS. "A Nearly 50% Decrease in New HIV Diagnoses in Rhode Island from 2006-2016: Implications for Policy Development and Prevention." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 101, no. 8, 2018, pp. 41-45. |
Carter KL, Gabrellas AD, Shah S, Garland JM. "Improved latent tuberculosis therapy completion rates in refugee patients through use of a clinical pharmacist." The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, vol. 21, no. 4, 2017, pp. 432-437. |
Subedi P, Drezner KA, Dogbey MC, Newbern EC, Yun K, Scott KC, Garland JM, Altshuler MJ, Johnson CC. "Evaluation of latent tuberculous infection and treatment completion for refugees in Philadelphia, PA, 2010-2012." The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, vol. 19, no. 5, 2015, pp. 565-9. |
Vittor AY, Garland JM, Gilman RH. "Molecular Diagnosis of TB in the HIV Positive Population." Annals of Global Health, vol. 80, no. 6, 2014, pp. 476-85. |
O'Brien MJ, Garland JM, Murphy KM, Shuman SJ, Whitaker RC, Larson SC. "Training medical students in the social determinants of health: the Health Scholars Program at Puentes de Salud." Advances in Medical Education and Practice, vol. 5, 2014, pp. 307-14. |
Koenig HC, Garland JM, Weissman D, Mounzer K. "Vaccinating HIV patients: focus on human papillomavirus and herpes zoster vaccines." AIDS reviews, vol. 15, no. 2, 2013, pp. 77-86. |
Vittor AY, Garland JM, Schlossberg D. "Improving the diagnosis of tuberculosis: From QuantiFERON to new techniques to diagnose tuberculosis infections." Current HIV/AIDS Reports, vol. 8, no. 3, 2011, pp. 153-63. |
Garland JM, Andrade AS, Page KR. "Unique aspects of the care of HIV-positive Latino patients living in the United States." Current HIV/AIDS Reports, vol. 7, no. 3, 2010, pp. 107-16. |
Year | Degree | Institution |
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2006 | MD | Harvard University |
2000 | BA | Harvard University |
Clinical fellow | Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, infectious diseases | 2009-2011 | |
Resident | Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, internal medicine | 2007-2009 | |
Internship | Massachusetts General Hospital, internal medicine | 2006-2007 |
2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024: Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award, Alpert Medical School
2024: Honorary Adjunct Faculty, Rhode Island College Onanian School of Nursing
2023: Steven Opal Teaching Award, Infectious Diseases fellowship program, Alpert Medical School
2023: Positive Champion Award, Alpert Medical School
2023: Hope Harris Award, AIDS Project Rhode Island
2020: Beckwith Family Award for Outstanding Teaching, Alpert Medical School
2020: Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, Arnold P. Gold Foundation & Alpert Medical School
2019, 2020: Certificate of recognition for exemplary teaching, Alpert Medical School
2019: Department of Medicine Teaching Award, Alpert Medical School
2019: Multiculturalism Award, Alpert Medical School
2017: Steven Opal Teaching Award, Infectious Diseases fellowship program, Alpert Medical School
2015: Harm Reduction Champion Award, Prevention Point Philadelphia
2015: Donald B. Martin Teaching Service Award, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2014: PA and Physician Team Award, Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants
2014: Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society faculty inductee, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2012: Maurice F. Attie Faculty Teaching Award, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2012: Golden Door Honoree, HIAS Pennsylvania
2012: Citation for establishment of a refugee clinic, House of Representatives, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
2012: Citation for establishment of a refugee clinic, Office of the Mayor, City of Philadelphia
2009: Penn Pearl Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Member, Infectious Diseases Society of America
American Academy of HIV Medicine Specialist (AAHIVS)
American Academy of HIV Medicine Specialist (AAHIVS) | Hiv | - | |
American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases | - | ||
American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine | - |
Staff. Rhode Island Hospital, 2015- |
Staff. The Miriam Hospital, 2015- |