Dr. Natella Rakhmanina is a Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University and serves as an 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. 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 25 years she has been providing care for infants, children and adolescents affected by the HIV epidemic. 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 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.  For over a decade, she has been serving and continues to serve as a 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 and the Pediatric Advisory Working Group at the World Health Organization. She also has more than a decade experience in global health serving as a Senior Technical Advisor at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation where she led diverse projects on pediatric and adolescent HIV treatment in Sub-Saharan African countries.