Dr. Natella Rakhmanina is a Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University, Associate Chief of the Division of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases and a Director of the HIV Prevention and Treatment Services at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, USA. Rakhmanina is also a Senior Technical Advisor at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation leading diverse projects on pediatric and adolescent HIV treatment in Sub-Saharan African countries.

Dr. Rakhmanina obtained her MD degree at People’s Friendship University in Moscow, Russia, and her PhD degree in clinical pharmacology at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. For more than 20 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 NIH, CDC and industry funded pediatric and adolescent HIV studies.

Dr. Rakhmanina has multiple regional, national and international professional roles including serving as a Chair of the Committee on Pediatric AIDS at the American Academy of Pediatrics, member of the US 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, member of the Pediatric Advisory Working Group at the World Health Organization, and a Regent of the Board and Chair of the Bylaws and Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity committees at the American College of Clinical Pharmacology.