COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network
A collaborative multi-disciplinary response is critical to optimally manage patients with COVID-19. With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network brings together the latest clinical guidance, institutional protocols, clinical trials data, practice tools and resources from a variety of medical subspecialties around the world. Visit daily for must-have information, curated by medical experts, that will help clinicians and other decision-makers work together to win the fight against COVID-19.
Chief Medical Editor
Varun Kishor Phadke, MD
Dr. Phadke is Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine, where he serves as the Associate Program Director for the infectious diseases fellowship training program. He also completed a NIH-funded T32 fellowship in vaccinology at Emory. His interests include clinical reasoning, immunocompromised hosts, and vaccines, and his clinical practice includes general and transplant infectious diseases.
Associate Medical Editors
Sonali Advani, MBBS, MPH
Dr. Advani is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and serves as the Co-Medical Director of Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON). In her role, she assists >50 member hospitals in development and strengthening of their existing infection prevention programs. Her research focuses on healthcare-associated infections in special populations, implementation of diagnostic stewardship interventions, and improving metrics to better align with outcomes.
Matifadza (Mati) Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH
Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis is the Lead HIV Clinician, Graduate Medical Education Coordinator and Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy Supervisor at the John Cochran VA Medical Center. She is also a Board Member for the St. Louis City Board of Health and a medical contributor for CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera and MSNBC. Her clinical work is focused on HIV and community engagement. Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis is the Associate Editor for the COVID Health Equity Resources section of the site.
Sanjat Kanjilal, MD, MPH
Dr. Kanjilal is a Lecturer in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute and Harvard Medical School. He is also an attending physician on the general infectious diseases service and the Associate Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital. His research interests are in the use of machine learning models to better diagnose, manage and prevent infectious diseases, with a particular focus on antibiotic resistance. He is also an expert in SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics.
Payal K. Patel, MD, MPH
Dr. Patel is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at University of Michigan and the Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Her interests include infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship implementation work in the US and globally. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications and mentors medical students, residents and fellows.
Ethel D. Weld, MD, PhD
Dr. Weld is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Molecular Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in the Divisions of Clinical Pharmacology & Infectious Diseases, where she serves as an attending physician on the HIV/AIDS service and the general infectious diseases consultation service. Her research interest is in expanding options for the prevention and treatment of HIV in children, adolescents, and adults in a manner that addresses adherence barriers, particularly using long-acting, less-frequent dosing approaches, and improving treatment options for children with HIV and TB co-infection.
William Werbel, MD
Dr. Werbel is an infectious diseases clinician-scientist at the Johns Hopkins University with expertise the care of immunocompromised patients including people living with HIV, cancer, and/or organ transplantation. He conducts clinical research to understand risk factors for serious infection in these populations on a national scale, and is also studying safety and immune response of COVID-19 vaccination in these at-risk groups.
Associate Digital Editor
Ravina Kullar, PharmD, MPH, FIDSA
Dr. Kullar is an infectious diseases pharmacist for Expert Stewardship, Inc., which focuses on infection prevention & antibiotic stewardship in nursing homes and is an infectious diseases research consultant. An infectious diseases global health expert and public health advocate, she has published over 40 research papers on the global health threat of antibiotic resistance.
Senior Online Editor
Marjorie K. Connolly
Marjorie is a public health communications specialist who previously served as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Press Secretary and worked as a communications and health policy advisor on Capitol Hill. She studies global health systems history at the Humboldt University and Freie University of Berlin.
Associate Online Editor
Allen Kenney
Allen Kenney is a communications consultant and strategist specializing in social impact and equity, corporate governance and responsibility, internal strategic communications, sports and society, and public policy. He has nearly two decades of experience in investigative journalism, media and strategic communications. As a co-founder and Communications Leader of #TestAndTrace, he managed communications strategies and public information campaigns for a worldwide volunteer network of professionals in medicine, public health, technology and social entrepreneurship collaborating to advance testing and contact tracing as vital components of effective approaches for containing Covid-19.
Expert Contributors
- Shweta Anjan, M.D.
- Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD, MPH
- Prathit A. Kulkarni, M.D.
- Nicole A. Levy, MPH, CHES
- Priya Nori, MD
- Glenn Patriquin, M.D., MSC
- Payal K. Patel, MD MPH
- Veronica Rivera, MD
- Priya Sampathkumar, M.D., FIDSA
- Michael Stevens, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA
- Adrienne E. Shapiro, MD, PhD
- Jaffar Al-Tawfiq, M.D., FIDSA
- Francesca Torriani, M.D., FIDSA