Julia A. Piwoz, MD

Julia Piwoz, MD, is Director, Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship and Medical Director, Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infectious Diseases Specialty Care Center at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Associate Professor, Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Piwoz’s clinical focus includes congenital infections, including CMV, as well as both inpatient and outpatient antimicrobial stewardship. After earning her Doctor of Medicine from Hahnemann University School of Medicine in 1991, Dr. Piwoz completed her pediatric residency at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1994. She remained at this institution to complete a pediatric infectious diseases fellowship in 1996, followed by a postdoctoral research associateship in HIV virology in 1997. Dr. Piwoz’s research is focused on the evaluation and long-term study of infants with congenitally acquired CMV infection. She serves on the New York State CMV Working Group and is the site …principal investigator for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-funded PROACTIVE Study. Dr. Piwoz developed and passed landmark legislation for perinatal HIV testing that served as the basis for a significant decline in transmission of HIV from mother to child. She also helped develop a World AIDS Day program for local teens that became a large annual event. Dr. Piwoz has been principal investigator on several research projects and her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, review articles and abstracts. She has also shared her work through national and international presentations. Dr. Piwoz is board certified in General Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics with a subspecialty certification in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. She is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and is a member of several professional organizations, including the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics, among others. Dr. Piwoz has received many accolades for her work. For multiple years, she has been named in Castle Connolly’s “Top Doctors” and “New York Metro Area’s Top Doctors”. She has also been named in New York Magazine’s “Top Doctors”, 201 Magazine’s “Top Doctor: Infectious Diseases” and Inside Jersey Magazine’s “Top Doctors for Children”, among others.