Rachel Brana Falik, DNP, RN, CPNP-PC, is a member of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Division at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. She attended the University of Pittsburgh, where she received her Bachelor of Science in nursing in 2012 and Doctor of Nursing Practice in 2018. Her interest in infectious diseases began during her graduate education, particularly when she encountered vaccination hesitancy and refusal in the pediatric and adolescent population. Her work has been presented nationally and published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Her passion for infectious diseases grew during her time as a nurse practitioner with the immunocompromised population. She was involved in monitoring and treating Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients. She has expertise in managing invasive fungal infections, adenovirus, herpes simplex virus, and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease in pediatric post-transplant patients. She also managed symptoms and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 in children with intestinal transplants, liver transplants, and native liver disease. Dr. Falik’s current focus at Children’s National includes managing post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC or long COVID), evaluating patients undergoing workups for kidney, heart, and bone marrow transplants, managing congenital infections such as HSV, CMV, and toxoplasmosis, and providing discharge follow-up care for pediatric patients requiring long-term outpatient antibiotic therapy.