Mirella Salvatore MD FIDSA

Summary

• Dr. Mirella Salvatore is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University and an Attending Physician at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Cornell campus. She obtained her M.D. degree from the Catholic University in Rome, Italy and completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. At Mount Sinai she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship training studying influenza virus in the laboratory of Prof. Adolfo Garcia-Sastre.
  As a physician scientist, Dr. Salvatore has focused her research on the development of novel platforms for influenza vaccines and more recently, on Covid-19. She is also leading studies of influenza virus pathogenesis and therapy in the immunocompromised human host. She is a member of the International Society for Influenza and other Respiratory Virus Diseases (ISIRV), International Society for Travel Medicine (ISTM) and she is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Vice President of the Infectious Disease Society of New York (IDSNY). She is also a former member of the IDSA Research Committee and of ISTM Research and Awards Committee. Dr. Salvatore has served on NIH study sections, and is a reviewer for many scientific journals.