Zanthia Wiley, MD, named co-chair of the Mentoring, Career Development and Training Committee (MCDC)

Congratulations to Zanthia Wiley, MD (Emory), on being named co-chair of IDCRC MCDC, effective August 1, 2025. She assumes this role as Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc, (Emory) steps down to serve as Chair of Medicine at University Hospitals/Case Western in Cleveland, Ohio. The network extends our gratitude to Dr. Ofotokun for his many years of service, leadership and dedication as co-chair of this program. We wish him the best in his new role and look forward to the continued success and contributions he will bring to the field.

Dr. Wiley is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine. She currently serves as co-investigator in the Emory Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit at the Hope Clinic and is an Atlanta Hub MPI on the NIH RECOVER (Long COVID) study. She is passionate about mentorship and the promotion of trainees and peers, especially those who are underrepresented in medicine. She serves as a mentor to high school and college students, medical trainees, as well as junior faculty in both the U.S. and Nigeria.

Dr. Wiley is a steadfast advocate for vaccinations and speaks on both the local and national levels to help promote vaccine confidence within our communities. To her, “thriving health care” means equitable health care. It means having clinicians, researchers, and research participants who mirror the communities that we serve. She is a national leader in medicine, 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.

Dr. Wiley previously was an IDCRC mentee herself in the first cohort (2020-2021), participating in the very program she will be leading. Now, as a leader in infectious diseases research and an advocate for mentorship, we look forward to the unique perspective she will bring to this program in developing the IDCRC science workforce and leadership of the future