FindMyKOL

Top experts by indication / Infectious Disease

Most active experts in COVID-19

2026 edition, data as of October 26, 2026

554 key opinion leaders in the directory are tagged to COVID-19. The tables below rank them by one public measure each: registered trials, citations, NIH awards and congress contributions. Each is a count from a named source, not a judgment about the person, and every row links a profile where the count can be checked.

Most registered trials

Registered clinical trials in this indication on which the person is a listed investigator, counted from ClinicalTrials.gov. 156 of the 554 people tagged to this indication have this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov.

#Experttrials
1Adrian HernandezDuke University, NC9 trials
2Susanna NaggieDuke University School of Medicine, NC8 trials
3James CummingsDC3 trials
4Upinder SinghIA3 trials
5Marylyn AddoMA3 trials
6Timothy HenrichUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA3 trials
7Pam TaubUniversity of California, San Diego, CA3 trials
8Yvonne MaldonadoStanford University School of Medicine, CA3 trials
9Gary FelkerDuke University, NC3 trials
10Barry MakeNational Jewish Health, CO3 trials
11Julie ParsonnetStanford University School of Medicine, CA3 trials
12David SmithUniversity of California, San Diego, CA2 trials
13Harlan KrumholzYale School of Medicine, CT2 trials
14Mary StaatCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH2 trials
15Ruanne BarnabasMassachusetts General Hospital, MA2 trials
16Cecilia ShikumaUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, HI2 trials
17David IngbarUniversity of Minnesota System, MN2 trials
18Michael YinColumbia University, NY2 trials
19Mikhail KosiborodSaint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, MO2 trials
20Eric LenzeWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO2 trials
21Magdalena SobieszczykColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY2 trials
22David HuiThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX2 trials
23Benjamin NatelsonIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY2 trials
24Jessica JustmanICAP at Columbia University, NY2 trials
25Reynold PanettieriRutgers, NJ2 trials

Most cited

Citations to the person's whole published record in OpenAlex, not only their work in this indication, among the people with at least two registered trials in it. 27 of the 554 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: OpenAlex.

#Expertcitations
1Harlan KrumholzYale School of Medicine, CT218,680 citations
2John DipersioWashington University School of Medicine, MO98,282 citations
3Adrian HernandezDuke University, NC86,294 citations
4Mikhail KosiborodSaint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, MO71,275 citations
5Gary FelkerDuke University, NC49,716 citations
6Barry MakeNational Jewish Health, CO44,471 citations
7Myron LevinUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz, CO30,964 citations
8Judith JamesOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK28,508 citations
9Nadine RouphaelEmory University, GA26,424 citations
10Julie ParsonnetStanford University School of Medicine, CA24,023 citations
11Reynold PanettieriRutgers, NJ23,337 citations
12Eric LenzeWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO20,832 citations
13David HuiThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX20,252 citations
14Mary StaatCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH17,282 citations
15Yvonne MaldonadoStanford University School of Medicine, CA16,758 citations
16Magdalena SobieszczykColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY14,998 citations
17Michael YinColumbia University, NY14,821 citations
18Benjamin NatelsonIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY14,789 citations
19Timothy HenrichUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA11,074 citations
20Ruanne BarnabasMassachusetts General Hospital, MA10,107 citations
21Pam TaubUniversity of California, San Diego, CA8,638 citations
22Jessica JustmanICAP at Columbia University, NY7,573 citations
23Susanna NaggieDuke University School of Medicine, NC6,741 citations
24Cecilia ShikumaUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, HI6,690 citations
25Loretta QueDuke University Hospital, NC6,461 citations

Most NIH awards

NIH awards on the person's record in NIH RePORTER, across all of their funded work, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 27 of the 554 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: NIH RePORTER.

#Expertawards
1Judith JamesOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK27 awards
2Julie ParsonnetStanford University School of Medicine, CA20 awards
3Timothy HenrichUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA18 awards
4Cecilia ShikumaUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, HI16 awards
5John DipersioWashington University School of Medicine, MO15 awards
6Michael YinColumbia University, NY13 awards
7Eric LenzeWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO13 awards
8Susanna NaggieDuke University School of Medicine, NC12 awards
9Jessica JustmanICAP at Columbia University, NY11 awards
10Katharine BarUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA10 awards
11Yvonne MaldonadoStanford University School of Medicine, CA9 awards
12Harlan KrumholzYale School of Medicine, CT8 awards
13Myron LevinUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz, CO8 awards
14David HuiThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX7 awards
15Adrian HernandezDuke University, NC7 awards
16Nadine RouphaelEmory University, GA7 awards
17Mary StaatCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH6 awards
18David IngbarUniversity of Minnesota System, MN6 awards
19Ruanne BarnabasMassachusetts General Hospital, MA5 awards
20Benjamin NatelsonIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY5 awards
21Reynold PanettieriRutgers, NJ5 awards
22Loretta QueDuke University Hospital, NC5 awards
23Magdalena SobieszczykColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY4 awards
24Gary FelkerDuke University, NC3 awards
25Marylyn AddoMA1 award

Most congress contributions

Congress abstracts and presentations attributed to the person and verified by DOI, across every meeting the directory tracks, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 8 of the 554 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 8 highest are listed. Source: Congress abstracts, DOI-verified.

#Expertcontributions
1John DipersioWashington University School of Medicine, MO171 contributions
2David HuiThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX72 contributions
3Mikhail KosiborodSaint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, MO27 contributions
4Adrian HernandezDuke University, NC6 contributions
5Pam TaubUniversity of California, San Diego, CA3 contributions
6Nadine RouphaelEmory University, GA2 contributions
7Ruanne BarnabasMassachusetts General Hospital, MA1 contribution
8Myron LevinUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz, CO1 contribution

Emerging

16 of the 554 carry the Emerging flag: publication and trial activity rising over the recent three years, in the top ten percent for growth among specialty peers at a similar career stage. Listed A to Z, not ranked; the flag is a yes or nothing, never a score. How the flag is computed.

Wigdan FarahMayo Clinic, MN
Alejandra GurtmanPfizer, NJ
Tahir KafilMayo Clinic, MN
Laura KogelmanMA
Heinz-Josef LenzUSC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, CA
Ronald LubelchekJohn H. Stroger, IL
Esther MelamedThe University of Texas at Austin, TX
Susanna NaggieDuke University School of Medicine, NC
Rena PatelUniversity of Alabama, AL
Jacalyn RosenblattBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, MA
Taraz SamandariGA
Pranay SinhaBoston University, MA
Mary StaatCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH
Nicholas StuckyProvidence Portland Medical Center, OR
Richard WhitleyUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
Patricia WinokurUniversity of Iowa, IA

How these tables are computed

The cohort is every profile in the directory tagged to COVID-19, from the person's registered trials and published research. Only indications with at least 200 tagged people get a page; a smaller cohort would say more about the tag than about the people in it. Each table sorts the cohort by one count, highest first, with no weighting, no blending and no editorial pass. Ties are broken by the profile's stable internal id so the same counts always give the same order. A person with no count on record is left out of that table, not ranked last.

Citations, NIH awards and congress contributions are counts over a person's whole record, not their work in this indication alone, so those three tables are limited to the indication's investigators: people with at least 2 registered trials in it. Without that rule the most cited people in a cohort are the ones whose careers span many diseases, which is a fact about their careers, not about this field. The registered-trials table is the indication-scoped count itself and has no such limit.

The counts are recomputed on every publish and the page carries the date of the publish it was built from. Previous editions are superseded, not archived.

What is deliberately absent

Reported industry payments are on every profile but are not a table here: a count of payers is a fact, and ranking people by it reads as a judgment. Prescribing volume is part of the paid workspace. The directory's influence tier is a judgment and never orders a public page. Sources and methodology.

Filter, sort and open every COVID-19 profile in the directory