Alexandra Brugler Yonts, MD

Director, Post COVID Program

Infectious Diseases Specialist

Alexandra Brugler Yonts, MD, (she/her), is a physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's National and an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Yonts completed her pediatric residency and was a chief resident at the University of California, Davis and completed her pediatric infectious diseases fellowship here in D.C. as part of the combined Children's National/US Food and Drug Administration program. She received her medical degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine.

Dr. Yonts' clinical interests include general infectious diseases, vaccines and infection-associated chronic conditions (IACCs), including Long COVID. Dr. Yonts has served as the director of the Children’s National Pediatric Post COVID Program Clinic for multidisciplinary evaluation and management of Long COVID in children and adolescents since its creation in May 2021.

Her main research interests are in the areas of vaccine clinical development and policy, post infectious syndromes and infection associated chronic conditions in children. She has been principal investigator for several industry sponsored vaccine clinical trials and prospective observational cohort studies. She served as an appointed member of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID during its brief existence. Her current work examines the delayed consequences of COVID-19 and Lyme Disease in children. She is also active in multiple national collaborative efforts to promote awareness, advocacy, clinical guidance and research of pediatric Long COVID in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), NIH's RECOVER-TLC initiative and Long COVID Families. 
 
Away from work, Dr. Yonts enjoys skiing, hiking, embroidery and other crafts, ringing in a community handbell choir, and spending time with her husband and son.

Publications

ORCiD

• Infectious Diseases