Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos is a medical officer for the Division of Viral Hepatitis (DVH) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. She is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases.
Dr. Panagiotakopoulos works in the prevention branch in DVH at CDC on a team focused on clinical interventions, including viral hepatitis screening, vaccination, and linkage to care and treatment. Dr. Panagiotakopoulos’ primary work focuses on perinatal hepatitis B and C, and she is currently working on CDC’s guidelines for screening US infants for hepatitis C. 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.
