Natella Rakhmanina MD, PhD
Clinical Case Presentation
Dr. Natella Rakhmanina is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University and the Director of the Special Immunology Pediatric HIV Program at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. She received her MD degree at People’s Friendship University in Moscow, Russia and obtained her PhD degree at the Erasmus University in the Netherlands. Graduate of two pediatric residency programs, one in Russia and a second one in the US, she is board certified in pediatric and HIV medicine. Dr. Rakhmanina focuses her research on the pharmacology of antiretroviral drugs in HIV-infected children and adolescents. She has become a principal invesigator of two NIH funded studies of the effect of development on therapeutic targets of pediatric and adolescent HIV infection and co-investigator of the Pediatric Pharmacology Research Units network. She is also a co-investigator of the International Maternal Pediatric Adoelscent AIDS Trial group and a principal investigator on several NIH and Department of Health studies on diagnostics and therapy of HIV infection in children. Dr. Rakhmanina is an elected chair of the HIV Drugs Committee at the International Association for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology.
