Infectious Diseases Fellow
Emory University School of Medicine
Christina Mallarino-Haeger,MD is an Infectious Diseases Fellow at Emort University. She was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia where she completed medical school followed by a year of social service at the Bogota Congenital Malformations Program. In 2013 she moved to Boston to do a postdoctoral research fellowship in a pulmonary and critical care laboratory at the Brigham and Women’s hospital and in 2017 moved to Pittsburgh for her Internal Medicine Residency at UPMC where she fell in love with ID. She became interested in translational research related to HIV immunology and worked on a project looking at the role of adenosine in gut mucosal immunity in people living with HIV under the mentorship of Dr. Bernard JC Macatangay while she was a resident. During Fellowship she has engaged in HIV immunology/cure research within a Martin Delaney Collaboratory research project for HIV Cure, under the mentorship of Dr. Vincent Marconi, Dr. Deanna Kulpa and Dr. Guido Silvestri. Her current research project focuses on the role of CD8+ T cells in viral latency maintenance on ART. In the future, she hopes to create spaces where there is strong collaboration between community partners and researchers to help democratize translational research and support empowerment and participation of those directly affected by the HIV epidemic.