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Dr. Adriana (Adri) Tremoulet is Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Host-Microbe Systems and Therapeutics in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego, specializing in pediatric infectious diseases and clinical pharmacology. She serves as the Associate Director of the Kawasaki Disease (KD) Research Center at UC San Diego, caring for nearly 1700 children with KD in San Diego County and an additional 100 children annually hospitalized at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego with KD. The primary focus of her research is repurposing therapeutics in Phase I through III clinical trials for inflammatory and infectious disorders. She has a passion for pediatric pharmacology and serves as the co-principal investigator of the NIH-funded UC San Diego Maternal and Pediatric Precision in Therapeutics Center of Excellence as well as co-Director of the UC San Diego Department of Pediatric T32 Clinical Pharmacology Training Program and Altman Clinical Trials Research Institute KL2 program. She is the former Chair of the American Heart Association’s Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis and Kawasaki Disease Committee, responsible for writing the AHA statement for Kawasaki disease. As a native Spanish speaker and Cuban-American, she has established the KD Latin American Network, which engages more than 300 investigators from 20 Latin American countries in collecting prospective data from patients with KD and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children. In 2022, Dr. Tremoulet was appointed as the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs. In this role, she is responsible for developing and implementing programs that enhance the training and retention of a diverse faculty that can succeed in academic medicine. She is passionate about training the next generation of diverse physician-scientists.