Aditi Ramakrishnan, MD, MSc

Aditi Ramakrishnan, MD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. She is an NIH-funded physician investigator with expertise in implementation science and HIV/STI prevention and treatment. Dr. Ramakrishnan completed her undergraduate degree at Yale University, an MA in Anthropology at Columbia University, MD at the University of Michigan, and her Infectious Diseases fellowship and MSc in clinical research at Emory University. She is a graduate of the HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Health Implementation Science Research Institute at Washington University and member of the WashU ICTS Implementation Science Academy. Additionally, she is a core faculty member of the CDC-funded St. Louis STI/HIV Prevention Training Center and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Implementation Science Communications and Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Ramakrishnan’s research applies implementation science methods to improve the delivery of STI and HIV prevention and treatment services. Her work draws from applied epidemiology, human-centered design and implementation mapping, qualitative, and discrete choice experiment methods. She is the recipient of an NIH K23 career development award and the HIV Research Scholars Program award from Gilead Sciences, and her work has previously been supported by the Emory and Midwest Centers for AIDS Research, WashU Center for Dissemination and Implementation, CTSA TL1 and ICTS KL2 awards. Her scholarship has examined PrEP implementation in family planning clinics across the Southern US, substance use treatment among women with HIV, mobile healthcare delivery for pregnant patients with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic, multistate modeling of retention among people living with HIV, preferences for care delivery among people living with HIV, and PrEP engagement and retention strategies for Midwest clinics.

In addition to her research, she attends on the inpatient Infectious Diseases consult service, teaching fellows, residents, and students, and serves as one of the primary HIV/PrEP/STI clinicians at Washington University.