Dr. Betsy C Herold is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Vice Chair for Research at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. She is also a Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Women’s Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She specializes in pediatric infectious diseases. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology in 1978 from Brown University and her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1982. She completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University, where she also served as Chief Resident. She then spent a year as a research fellow at the Hagedorn Research Laboratory in Gentofte, Denmark, before embarking on a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Children's Memorial and a&e postdoctoral fellowship in Virology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Northwestern University in Chicago. She directs a translational research laboratory at Albert Einstein College of Medicine focused on viral-host interactions, development of vaccines and monoclonal antibodies for prevention and treatment of herpes and other viral infections, and infections in immunocompromised hosts.