Charlotte Mao

Charlotte Mao, MD, a pediatric infectious disease physician, received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, then did residency training in pediatrics and subspecialty training in pediatric infectious diseases at Boston Children’s Hospital. She continued her career there as an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Assistant Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School with expertise in pediatric HIV/AIDS. For much of her total 25 years at Boston Children’s Hospital, she focused on the clinical care and research of HIV-infected children and served as site co-investigator for numerous NIH-/NIAID-funded multi center pediatric HIV clinical trials. She turned her focus to Lyme disease and associated confections after gaining extensive clinical experience with the pediatric Lyme disease patients in the referral ID clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is joining the Dean Center for Tick-borne Illness at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital where she will provide consultative pediatric ID specialty care and conduct clinical research studies related to Lyme/tick-borne diseases.