Dr. Gayathri Krishnan joins the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Assistant Professor as of July 2023. She completed her ID fellowship in 2022 at WUSM and a Medical education fellowship in 2023. She finished medical school at Government Medical College in Trivandrum, India and residency training at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, Arkansas. She completed chief residency at UAMS and joined WUSM for ID fellowship. Dr. Krishnan served as the ID Chief fellow for AY 2021- 2022.
She currently serves as the Director of the Long COVID Multidisciplinary clinic at WUSM, President and Career Development Chair for the inaugural Fellows Council in the department of medicine, the site lead for Ambulatory Infectious Diseases Immersions, and Director of the FWIM Leadership Development Program for Women Trainees in Medicine. She is the founder of Women in Infectious Diseases online forum which amplifies and supports incredible work done by women professionals in ID. She is part of the organizing committee for the multidisciplinary interprofessional Health Equity Case Conferences for fellows and is she is also an elected member of Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Mentorship Workgroup, Fellows Subcommittee and works as a Fellow Liaison for the IDSA’s inaugural ADE&I committee.
Dr. Krishnan’s research/interest focuses on Medical Education mentored by Dr. Abby Spencer, and Dr. Steve Lawrence, addressing equity and gender bias in ID, empowering and amplifying women professionals in Infectious Diseases, mentored by Dr. Hilary Babcock and Leadership Development for Women Trainees mentored by Dr. Rakhee Bhayani. Her key interests are general infectious diseases, medical education, long COVID, career and leadership development of women trainees and educational innovations. Her research areas are quantitative and qualitative research in medical education, leadership development initiatives for women trainees and health equity initiatives. Along with assessments and program evaluation research of innovative curricula.