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 a physician investigator with expertise in HIV prevention and care and sexually transmitted infections, and is trained in medical anthropology, and clinical research. She completed her undergraduate degree at Yale University, MA in Anthropology at Columbia University, MD at University of Michigan, and her infectious diseases fellowship and MSc in clinical research at Emory University. In addition to serving as one of the primary PrEP and HIV clinicians at Washington University, she is also a core faculty member of the CDC-funded St. Louis STI/HIV Prevention Training Center. 

Dr. Ramakrishnan’s research focuses on applying implementation science strategies to improve domestic HIV prevention and care. Her scholarship, funded previously by a TL1 grant and Emory CFAR, has explored PrEP implementation factors in family planning clinics throughout the Southern US, substance use treatment among women with HIV in the South, mobile healthcare for pregnant women with HIV in Atlanta during the COVID-19 pandemic, and COVID-19. She recently received a Washington University Center for Dissemination and Implementation pilot grant to conduct a qualitative study and discrete choice experiment examining preferences regarding HIV service delivery among persons living with HIV who are lost to care in St. Louis. 

Dr. Ramakrishnan is also passionate about improving equity in academic medicine, through both her research and co-founding “Equal Medicine,” a career development program for Internal Medicine women residents at University of Michigan, for which she was co-awarded the University of Michigan Department of Medicine Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in 2023.