About me
Dr. Adrienne Showler is the Section Chief of Tropical Medicine at Georgetown University Hospital. She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ill returned travelers with conditions such as malaria, dengue, zika, chikungunya, typhoid fever, travellers diarrhea, and a wide variety of parasitic infections. She dedicates herself to caring for patients with neglected tropical diseases including American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease), leishmaniasis, echinococcus, filariasis (loa loa, onchocerciasis), leprosy, and strongyloides. Dr. Showler also oversees the travel medicine program, which focuses on travellers with unique health concerns (eg. pregnancy, compromised immune systems, HIV) and who have complex travel itineraries.
Dr. Showler completed her infectious disease fellowship at the University of Toronto in Canada, and a Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the Gorgas Course in Lima, Peru. She holds a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, did her thesis at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Showler loves to teach clinical tropical medicine and parasitology, and is very involved in education and academic research. She is a member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and International Society of Travel Medicine.
Clinical areas of focus
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Malaria
- Travel Medicine
- Travel Vaccination
- Yellow Fever Vaccination
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Acanthamoeba Infection
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Amebiasis Infection
- Anthrax
- Cerebral Toxoplasmosis
- Chagas Disease
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Dengue Fever
- Echinococcus Infections
- Fever Of Unknown Origin
- Filariasis
- Flukes
- Giardiasis
- Gnathostomiasis
- Helminthiasis
- Histoplasmosis
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Leishmaniasis
- Leprosy
- Leptospirosis
- Listeriosis
- Loiasis
- Lymphadenopathy
- Malaria
- Melioidosis
- Onchocerciasis
- Paracoccidioidomycosis
- Paragonimiasis
- Parasitic Diseases
- Parasitic Meningitis
- Q Fever
- Rabies
- Rat Bite Fever
- Relapsing Fever
- Rhinoscleroma
- Schistosoma Japonicum Infections
- Schistosomiasis
- Spirochetal Infection
- Sporotrichosis
- Spotted Fevers
- Toxocariasis
- Toxoplasmosis
- Traveler's Diarrhea
- Trypanosomiasis
- Tuberculosis
- Typhoid Fever
- Typhus Fever
- West Nile Virus
- Yellow Fever
- Zika Virus
Procedures I perform
- Hepatitis A Vaccination
- Hepatitis B Vaccination
- Japanese Encephalitis Vaccination
- Measles Vaccination
- Meningitis Vaccination
- Meningococcal Vaccine
- MMR Vaccine
- Pneumonia Vaccination
- Polio Vaccination
- Rabies Vaccination
- Travel Medicine
- Travel Vaccination
- Tropical Medicine
- Tuberculosis (TB) Test
- Typhoid Fever Vaccination
- Yellow Fever Vaccination
- Zika Virus Testing
Practice locations
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3800 Reservoir Road Northwest Pasquerilla Healthcare Center 5th Fl Washington, DC, 20007
202-444-0086Fax 877-665-8072
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- United Healthcare Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO, GEHA, Compass Rose)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans/ UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans HMO, POS, PPO
- Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select (aka Senior Advantage)
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv/Special Needs Plans
- UHC Community Plan of MD
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Medicare Fee for Service
- Kaiser Virginia Premier
- Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS
- Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO
- CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- CFBCBS EPO
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Choice POS & Choice POS II
- PPO and PPO Plus
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO
- CIGNA EPO
- Open EPO Plus
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Innovation Health: POS
- Choice Fund PPO
- Aetna HMO
- Opoen HMO Option
- Open POS II
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- United Healthcare Choice
- Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- Open HMO
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)
- POS OA & OA Plus
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Network OA
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- FIRST HEALTH
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- CFBCBS (NCA) Indemnity
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- First Health PPO
- MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)
- Tricare Prime
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- United Student Resources
- Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease
Fellowship Program: University of Toronto Hospital (2014)
Residency Program: University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine (2012)
Medical School: University of Ottawa (2009)