Clinical Director and Associate Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Boston Children's Hospital
Tanvi Sharma, MD, MPH is co-director of the immunocompromised hosts infectious diseases (ID) service and co-director of ID in the Pediatric Transplant Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sharma serves as the associate chief and clinical director within the division of pediatric ID, and also serves as director of the pediatric ID fellowship program at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Sharma completed her medical training, residency in pediatrics, and fellowship in pediatric ID at University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. She joined the faculty with the divisions of pediatric ID/immunology and pediatric clinical research at the University of Miami before moving to Boston. Her early research interests focused on metabolic complications in children with perinatally-acquired HIV infection receiving antiretroviral therapy, and have since evolved to evaluating infectious outcomes in children undergoing solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. As both an educator and clinician caring for children with immunocompromising conditions, Dr. Sharma has additionally take on an active role in the development of curricula and training experiences focused on pediatric immunocompromised hosts infectious diseases. Dr. Sharma serves as a member of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) Transplant ID Subcommittee and serves as chair of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) ID Community of Practice Pediatrics Working Group. Dr. Sharma also serves on the PIDS Education Committee and has previously served on the PIDS Training Program Directors Committee.
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Monday, October 19, 2020
1:00pm – 6:30pm EDT
Thursday, October 22, 2020
12:30pm – 1:45pm EDT
