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Director of Health
City of St. Louis Department of Health
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis received her medical degree from Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and a Master’s in Public Health Degree from Case Western Reserve University. She completed her internal medicine residency at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. She went on to complete her Infectious Diseases fellowship at the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), also completing a one year dedicated non-ACGME HIV fellowship and a two year dedicated Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) fellowship. She was a Clinical Instructor at Washington University School Medicine for two years and an Associate Program Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases fellowship program. She was also in the leadership of the Office of Inclusion and Diversity at the WUSM where she wrote a policy dedicated to addressing patient bias against faculty, trainees and staff with an accompanying toolkit and curriculum for the residency program. Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis is an Infectious Diseases physician at the John Cochran VA Medical Center where she is the Lead HIV Clinician, Graduate Medical Education Coordinator and Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy supervisor.
Her passion for community engagement, diversity and inclusion and patients living with HIV (PLWH), culminated in her becoming the co-chair for the Fast Track Cities initiative in St. Louis which in collaboration with the city and county health departments as well as all the major HIV community organizations in St. Louis, is dedicated to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. This culminated in her being appointed to the City of St. Louis Board of Health where she helps lead the city and region in upholding the highest possible medical and public health standards. Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis is now a national and international medical contributor on CoVID-19 with a particular focus on marginalized populations, and has been featured on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, among others. She has also written two opinion editorials in Newsweek. She is also an Associate Editor for Disparities and Competent Care for the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). It is not surprising that Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis is now nationally and internationally recognized for her Infectious Diseases expert opinion, her on-screen passion and likeability, as well as her advocacy for marginalized populations. To that end she has done a large number of webinars and invited talks in academia and the community nationally, and has a large social media following on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook where the public seeks out her expertise and relatability.
Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis’s research interests include HIV retention and the impact of CoVID-19 infection in marginalized populations. She is the co-PI for a study comparing the impacts of CoVID-19 on HIV between St. Louis, Missouri and San Paulo, Brazil. She was also the clinical co-lead for a regional CoVID-19 Population Prevalence grant where she brought her expertise in Infectious Diseases and roots in the community to write protocols for the management of CoVID-19 positive individuals, design a program to provide wrap-around services to those in need and manage a workforce around this clinical response effort.
Dr. Hlatshwayo is active in medical education where, in addition to being the Graduate Medical Education supervisor, she also serves on the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice Mentorship Work Group and the Grants for Emerging Researchers/Clinicians Mentorship committees. Additionally she is on the Board of Directors for the IDSA Minority Interest Group. She mentors four trainees and has given over twenty lectures as well as invited talks including Medicine Grand Rounds at the John Cochran VA Medical Center and Orthopedic Grand Rounds at Washington University. This culminated in her being recognized as one of the Chiefs of Service at the John Cochran VA Medical Center.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM US ET
Friday, October 21, 2022
12:15 PM – 12:45 PM US ET