Natella Y. Rakhmanina, MD, PhD, AAHIVS, FAAP

Dr. Natella Rakhmanina is a professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University, associate chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and a director of the HIV Prevention and Treatment Program at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Rakhmanina obtained her MD at People’s Friendship University in Moscow, Russia, and her PhD in clinical pharmacology at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. For almost 25 years she has been providing care to HIV-infected and HIV-exposed infants, children and adolescents. She is a successful clinical researcher, focusing her studies on the treatment and prevention of HIV in children and adolescents and serving as a principal investigator of pediatric and adolescent HIV studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and industry.

Dr. Rakhmanina has held multiple regional, national and international professional roles including serving as immediate past chair of the committee on Pediatric AIDS at the American Academy of Pediatrics and Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity Committee at the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. She is a current member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Panel on the Pediatric Antiretroviral Therapy and Management Guidelines at the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council in National Institutes of Health and the Pediatric Advisory Working Group at the World Health Organization. She also serves as a senior technical advisor at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation, where she leads diverse projects on pediatric and adolescent HIV treatment in sub-Saharan African countries. 

• Infectious Diseases
• HIV Prevention and Treatment Program

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Outside Interests

• Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation