Ravi Jhaveri, MD, FIDSA, has played a critical role in building and developing the IDSA Leadership Institute, a program that empowers infectious diseases and HIV practitioners to develop into future leaders.
Over the past six years, Dr. Jhaveri, who is division head for pediatric infectious diseases at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and professor of pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has served a foundational role in launching IDSA’s Leadership Institute, serving first as vice chair and then chair of the Leadership Institute Subcommittee. His efforts have contributed to building a sustainable leadership pipeline for ID and HIV specialists.
In 2018, when Dr. Jhaveri was vice chair, he collaborated with Victoria Fraser, MD, FIDSA, founding chair, and the steering committee to establish the Leadership Institute’s initial structure and curriculum. Within eight months, they conducted a comprehensive needs assessment, identified expert facilitators and introduced a robust learning experience for mid- and senior-career physicians.
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Jhaveri worked with urgency and clarity to redesign the program to meet evolving needs, pivoting first to a fully virtual format and later to a hybrid model of learning. These adaptive measures ensured continuity, accessibility and relevance for participants.
Editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, Dr. Jhaveri also helped create Rising Leaders, an online leadership development program at IDSA geared toward early-career ID and HIV health care professionals, to broaden the Society’s leadership development reach. He guided the reimagining of its structure in 2024 to incorporate professional coaching from certified coaches who are also ID specialists.
Throughout his tenure, Dr. Jhaveri, who previously served on the IDSA/American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Hepatitis C Virus Guidelines Panel and currently serves on the AASLD Viral Hepatitis Elimination Task Force, has overseen the development and delivery of more than 220 hours of structured leadership training delivered to 227 ID and HIV professionals globally.
Dr. Jhaveri’s contributions have created not just a set of programs, but a durable, mission-aligned system for growing the next generation of ID leaders. His final actions as chair of the Leadership Institute Subcommittee were to charge the subcommittee and IDSA staff with undertaking a multiyear effort focused on program evaluation and continuous improvement to ensure that the Society’s leadership initiatives remain effective, adaptive and accessible.
For his outstanding service to IDSA and transformative guidance in advancing leadership development for the ID community, IDSA is pleased to honor Dr. Jhaveri with a Society Citation Award.