Attending Physician/ Assistant Professor
Children's National Hospital/ George Washington University
Disclosure(s): Pfizer: Grant/Research Support
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 is the founder and 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. Her main research interests are in the areas of vaccine clinical development, post infectious syndromes and infection associated chronic conditions in children. She served as an appointed member of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID during its brief existence. Her current work examines the delayed 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 pediatric Long COVID.
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.