Dr. Yonts is a pediatric infectious diseases physician and researcher at Children's National Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She has served as the director of the Children’s National Pediatric Post COVID Program Clinic for evaluation and management of Long COVID in children and adolescents since its creation in May 2021. She is nationally recognized as an expert in pediatric Long COVID, having been selected to serve on the Advisory Committee for Long COVID to the Assistant Secretary of Health of the US Department of Health and Human Services

Dr. Yonts completed her pediatric residency and chief resident year at the University of California, Davis and completed her pediatric infectious diseases fellowship in D.C. as part of the combined Children's National/US Food and Drug Administration program. She received her medical degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine.

Her main research and clinical interests are in the areas of vaccine clinical development and post-infectious syndromes such as Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) and Post Acute Sequelae of COVID, as well as general and immunocompromised pediatric infectious diseases.  Her current work examines the long-term consequences of COVID-19 and Lyme Disease in children.  She is also active in multiple national collaborative efforts to promote awareness, advocacy, clinical guidance and research of Long COVID and other Infection Associated Chronic Conditions in the pediatric population.