TINA TAN, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP
Chair of the IDSA Foundation and IDSA’s President-Elect
Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, medical director of the International Patient and Destination Services Program, medical director of the International Adoptee Clinic and medical co-director of the Travel Medicine Clinic at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She has been a member of the Antibiotic Use and Clinical Trials Committee and served in leadership roles on the IDWeek Program Committee, which has helped her lead the way in how IDSA addresses issues of compensation and workforce shortages. She has served as an IDSA Board member and as a media spokesperson for IDSA and currently serves as the chair of the IDA&E Committee, which was instrumental in developing the IDA&E guiding principles and roadmap for IDSA to implement at all levels of the organization. Dr. Tan also has been a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases. She is a thought leader on antimicrobial resistance and is passionate about mentoring trainees, providing access to care, and improving equity. She hopes to bring her focus on advocacy, diversity, and inclusion — especially for infants, children, and pregnant women — to efforts to improve health disparities in her work on the board.
RONALD G. NAHASS, MD, FIDSA
Vice Chair, IDSA Foundation
Ronald G. Nahass, MD, MHCM, FIDSA, is the President of ID Care, the largest healthcare organization providing infectious diseases specialty services in New Jersey, with 100 clinicians practicing across more than 130 sites. Dr. Nahass has served the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) as Chair of the Quality Committee and served as a member of several other groups, including the Clinical Affairs Committee, Value and Governance Task Force, and IDSA/American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Hepatitis C Guidelines Committee. He was awarded the Distinguished Physician Humanitarian Award in 2008 by the Princeton HealthCare System for his work with HIV/AIDS patients and received the Watanakunakorn Clinician Award in 2020.
Dr. Nahass is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) and serves as a mentor for medical students in their patient-centered medical home experience and for clinical research. He is also a preceptor for the residents’ medical clinic and has received the Volunteer Faculty Award from RWJMS several times for his service and commitment to teaching. Dr. Nahass is passionate about the value and importance of infectious disease specialty and the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective care to promote health. Throughout his career, he has been a leader and advocate of promoting these issues, not only as an engaged member of society and the community but also in numerous publications and public presentations. He looks forward to fostering and advancing the message of clinical excellence, collegiality, competitive compensation, and career opportunities he has vigorously championed at ID Care.
MAXIMO O BRITO, MD, MPH, FIDSA
Secretary and Treasurer, IDSA Foundation
Maximo O. Brito, MD, MPH, FIDSA, is a professor of medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. He served as Program Director for the ID fellowship at the University of Illinois for over 10 years.
A member of the IDSA Board of Directors since 2021, Dr. Brito has also served on the HIVMA Clinical Fellowship Program Committee, the IDSA Global Health Committee, and the Training Program Directors Committee. Dr. Brito specializes in the care of patients with infectious diseases, particularly individuals living with or at risk of acquiring HIV. His current scholarly interests center around HIV prevention including rapid antiretroviral start and improving retention in care for people experiencing incarceration. Dr. Brito is committed to furthering IDSA’s national and global advocacy priorities for the ID field and patients, as well as contributing to IDSA’s education and mentoring initiatives. He is also eager to advance IDSA’s commitment to fostering a new generation of diverse healthcare workers and leaders.
Rana Chakraborty, MD, D.PHIL
Director, IDSA Foundation
Rana Chakraborty, M.D., D.Phil., is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and researcher with unique expertise in placental and fetal immunology. He studies the impact of maternal infection on exposed infants and characterizes and publishes about infection of trophoblasts, cord blood and placental macrophages with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), cytomegalovirus (CMV), Toxoplasma gondii, the Zika virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Dr. Chakraborty has also served as a leader in perinatal, pediatric and adolescent infectious diseases clinical trials, in medical education, and in basic science research. His work has been supportedby intramural funding and by extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a principal investigator in clinical and laboratory research, initially at the University of Oxford in England and currently at Mayo Clinic.