Zanthia Wiley, MD

Zanthia Wiley, MD, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Associate Vice Chair of RYSE Initiatives within the Emory University School of Medicine's Department of Medicine. She is the contact PI of the Atlanta Hub of the large, multi-site NIH RECOVER (Long COVID) study and MPI of The Infectious Diseases Summer Program Integrating Research at Emory (INSPIRE), a NIH-funded R25 program. She also serves as a co-investigator in the Emory Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit at the Hope Clinic and is PI of several Long COVID Clinical Trials and Physician Lead of the Community Advisory Board for the Long COVID REVERSE LC Atlanta clinical trial site. She is the Associate Director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Pathway Programs, the Associate Director of Mentorship and Training at the Emory Hope Clinic, and Assistant Training Program Director of the NIH-funded D43 Emory-Nigeria HIV Research Training Program.  She is recipient of the Jonas A. Shulman Teacher of the Year Award, 2018-2019, awarded yearly by the Emory Infectious Diseases Fellows to a faculty member for excellence in teaching and also recipient of a 2022 Emory Golden Apple Teaching Award as an outstanding inpatient infectious diseases educator to internal medicine residents.

She is passionate about mentorship and the promotion of trainees and peers. She has served as a mentor or coach to nearly 30 high school and college students, medical trainees, as well as junior faculty in both the U.S. and Nigeria.  She is also a national leader in research, serving as the 2024 president of the American Federation for Medical Research (AFMR), one of the longest-running organizations for multidisciplinary medical research in the nation, with the mission to develop and mentor tomorrow's leaders in medical research. She is also currently Vice-President-Elect for Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), which is the nation’s largest biomedical coalition that represents 22 scientific societies and more than 110,000 researchers worldwide. Dr. Wiley previously was an IDCRC mentee herself in the first cohort (2020-2021), participating in the very program she will now co-lead.