Kristina Bryant, M.D. is a pediatric infectious diseases physician with Norton Children's Medical Group and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.  She also serves as the hospital epidemiologist at Norton Children’s Hospital, medical director for system pediatric epidemiology and infectious diseases, Norton Children’s Medical Group, and associate medical director at Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness, She is a past president of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Board of Directors and a co-editor of the PIDS-sponsored Handbook of Pediatric Infection Prevention and Control. Dr Bryant was appointed to the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases in 2021 and is the physician lead for Red Book Online. She chairs Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety, a collaboration between the American Society of Nephrology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.