Faculty

Dr. Aldrovandi comes to us from CHLA where she has served as the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases for the past two years and prior to that was a faculty member and conducted her research at the Saban Research Institute of CHLA. She is a translational physician-scientist and her expertise and innovative research has far-reaching collaborations. Dr. Aldrovandi received her MD degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she also did her pediatric residency.

Dr. Adachi is a Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University and received her M.D. from UC San Diego School of Medicine in 2008. She completed her UCLA pediatrics internship and residency at UCLA in 2011 and later a three-year UCLA clinical fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases in 2015. She is board certified in both pediatrics (2011) and pediatric infectious diseases (2015). 

Dr. Cherry has more than 45 years of experience in research, teaching and clinical practice in the fields of infectious diseases and epidemiology. His laboratory experience has been in virology, mycoplasmology and more recently, molecular microbiology relating to Bordetella species. His main research over the last 40 years has focused on vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases. 

Dr. Deville is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and provides primary care for patients in the Care-4-Families Clinic at UCLA. Dr. Deville obtained his MD from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. Dr. Deville is Vice-Chair of the Advisory Commission in Childhood Vaccines for the Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Paul Krogstad attended UCLA and received his Bachelor of Science in Cybernetics and a Master's Degree in Engineering. After leaving Los Angeles, he attended the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he also completed his training in Pediatrics. He trained as a specialist in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington in Seattle, then returned to UCLA for additional postdoctoral training in human retrovirology.

Dr. Lehman, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and MD from UCLA School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and pediatric infectious diseases training at UCSF.

Dr. Nielsen is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and has been a member of the UCLA faculty since 1996. She has been the Co-PI of an international collaborative effort funded by the NIH for the conduct of HIV prevention and treatment trials in Brazil for the last seven years. Dr. Nielsen is an elected member of the Scientific Oversight Committee of the NIH funded pediatric network (IMPAACT) leadership group.

Dr. Kaur is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Medical Director of Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital. She serves as a Core Faculty Educator for the Infectious Diseases theme of Scientific Foundations of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine.

Dr. Malhotra earned her degrees as part of an accelerated BS/MD program with Penn State and Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She completed her pediatric internship and residency at CHLA as part of the global health track as well as a pediatric infectious disease fellowship. She joined UCLA as faculty in 2023. She's received awards for teaching and scholarship in residency, and grant funding in fellowship for research on tuberculosis infection.