Medical Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, MD, MPH is a medical officer for the Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division (CORVD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. She is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases. Dr. Panagiotakopoulos is currently the co-lead of the COVID-19 vaccine Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Work Group, which makes vaccine recommendations for the United States. In addition to her work at CDC, she is an adjunct professor at the Emory University School of Medicine department of infectious diseases and practices clinical medicine at the Emory Travel clinic.
Dr. Panagiotakopoulos earned her MD and MPH degrees from Stonybrook University in New York. She completed her pediatrics residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Panagiotakopoulos also completed a NIH T32 fellowship in Vaccine Safety at Emory University and CDC, during which her research focused on the safety of tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis vaccines administered during pregnancy. She also participated in CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine response efforts, including the creation of a registry to actively monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines administered during pregnancy.