Athena Kourtis
Greek-American pediatrician
Athena Kourtis is a Greek-American pediatrician, infectious diseases physician, scientist and author. She is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chief of HIV Research, as well as a Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and a Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Her research work has focused on perinatal, maternal and pediatric infections, and she is a leading expert in pediatric HIV, Cytomegalovirus, and Hepatitis, as well as infections in pregnancy. In Greece, she is recognized as a prominent medical expert and media voice for her contributions to public health and infectious disease research, as well as for her authorship of the children's health book Βγάλτε τα Παιδιά από τη Γυάλα.
Early life and education
Kourtis was raised in Greece, earning her medical degree Magna Cum Laude from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and her PhD in Immunology at the Pasteur Institute and the National University of Athens School of Medicine. She obtained a Master's in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Career
Upon completing her medical degree, Kourtis started a residency followed by a fellowship in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Immunology at the Emory University School of Medicine. She then joined the faculty at the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University.
Her early research focused on the role of the thymus in immunologic depletion of children with HIV. Her research work helped determine the time of transmission of HIV to the baby during pregnancy and delivery. For this work, she won the Lysidi Award from the Hellenic National Academy of Sciences.
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