Professor of Medicine and of Surgery
Emory University School of Medicine
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Aneesh K. Mehta, M.D., FIDSA, FAST received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 2003. Dr. Mehta completed his residency in Internal Medicine in 2006, and then a fellowship in Infectious Diseases in 2009, both at Emory. During his Infectious Diseases fellowship, he also completed training in Transplant Immunology. In July 2009, Dr. Mehta joined the faculty of Emory University. Currently he is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation. He serves as the Chief of Infectious Diseases at Emory University Hospital and the Assistant Director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Program. He is also a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and of the American Transplant Society.
Dr. Mehta’s clinical practice focuses on the care of patients with solid organ transplants, bone marrow transplants, and cancers, who are suffering with infections. He has led the expansion of Infectious Diseases services at Emory Healthcare. In addition, he continues to serve as an educator and mentor for students and young clinicians. For his work, he was named as one of Emory’s “Distinguished Clinicians” in 2017.
Dr. Mehta's research path has focused on the understanding, prevention, and treatment of viral infections. He is an Associate Faculty of the Emory Vaccine Center and the lead clinical investigator for the NIH Center of Excellence in Influenza Research and Response (CEIRR) at Emory. He has led over 20 clinical trials and translational research studies of viral infections and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Mehta has served as a physician leader of the Emory Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (SCDU) since 2009. He was first physician to care for a patient with Ebola in a US hospital, and was involved in the care of all four patients with Ebola in Emory’s biocontainment unit. These experiences led to Dr. Mehta becoming a core faculty member in the US Health and Human Services National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC), and became a co-PI of NETEC in 2021. In this role, Dr. Mehta has assisted with the training of healthcare providers across the US in preparing for care for patients in infectious diseases outbreak.
