medical director
CVS
Richard R. Watkins, MD, MS, FACP, FIDSA, FISAC is a medical director and member of the Infectious Disease Advisory Team at CVS. He is currently a professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED). He joined CVS in January 2021 after 14 years in clinical practice and as a clinical researcher. Dr. Watkins has dozens of peer reviewed publications, serves as a section editor for the Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, an assocate editor for Pathogens and Immunity, and is on the editorial advisory board for Clinical Infectious Diseases. He was the Chairman of the IDSA Publications Committee and has also served on numerous committees at the NIH, FDA, DoD, IDSA, ACP, AAMC, ABIM, and NEOMED. Dr. Watkins is on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio.