Shyam Kottilil is a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and Director of UMSOM’s Institute of Human Virology (IHV) Division of Clinical Care and Research. He has been awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists. He is also Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the UMSOM Department of Medicine and is a scientific advisory member of the Global Virus Network (GVN). He received the 2019 ACP’s Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Award. He has published more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals with an h-index of 45 (Scopus, February 2024).