Dr. Bertha Serwa Ayi is an adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Kansas Health Sciences Center, U.S. and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Development Studies, The University of Allied Health Sciences, and Accra College of Medicine all located in Ghana. Dr. Ayi is a member of the case management technical working group of Africa CDC'S African Continental Strategic Plan for COVID-19 Pandemic (AFCOR). She is a graduate of the University Of Ghana Medical School (UGMS Class of 1996) where she graduated with honors and received the Alcon/Paracelsus Award in Ophthalmology. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency training at Good Samaritan Hospital Inc., affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore Maryland in 2002. Furthermore, In 2004, she completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at a combined training program at Creighton University Medical Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Veterans Administration Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. She is  a Board Certified Infectious Disease Specialist and a fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and the Infectious Disease Society of America, which produces this blog. She is a consultant in infectious diseases at Essentia Health West, Fargo, North Dakota.