William Petri

William Petri

Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia

Bill Petri received his M.D. and Ph.D. (Microbiology) degrees from the University of Virginia, after which he completed his medicine residency at Case Western and then returned to UVA for an infectious diseases fellowship. He studies immunology and molecular pathogenesis of enteric infections and their consequences. Bill has served as President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Editor of Infection and Immunity, and he is currently Associate Editor for the scientific journals PLoS Pathogens, Clinical Infections Diseases and Trends in Molecular Medicine. He has received the following awards: Oswald Avery Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Burroughs Wellcome New Investigator and Scholar Awards in Molecular Parasitology, and the Lucille P. Markey Scholar Award in Biomedical Research. Since 1993, he has served on advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Articles by: William Petri

A car with US President Trump drives past supporters in a motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on October 4, 2020.

Trump is taking the latest in COVID-19 treatments. Here's how those medicines work.

By William Petri, Jeffrey M. Sturek published

With 74-year-old President Trump and first lady Melania Trump testing positive for the coronavirus, what are the best proven treatments for them and other patients?

3D image of coronavirus particles attacking the lungs.

Does coronavirus linger in the body?

By William Petri published

If the coronavirus "hides out" in seemingly recovered individuals, it could explain lingering symptoms of COVID-19 or pose a risk for transmission of infection to others even after recovery.