Dr. Netanya Utay is an associate professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at the University of Washington and infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health. She joined the faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 2013 and moved to UT Health Science Center at Houston in July 2017 before joining faculty at UTSW. She attends on the infectious disease services at Parkland and CUH and sees patients at ID OPAT and ACCESS Clinics. Dr. Utay was recently elected to be Chair of the Comorbidities Transformative Science Group of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group. Dr. Utay's research interests have included evaluating the contributions of gut damage, the microbiome, and inflammation to the development and progression of chronic diseases including HIV, Parkinson's disease, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.