Dr. Amy Edwards briefed National Press Foundation fellows in May 2023: Long COVID in Children: An Open Question. 

Amy M. Edwards, MD, is a physician in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and is the Associate Medical Director for Infection Control, and Medical Director of Pediatric Transplant Infectious Disease at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Dr. Edwards is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases. Her special interest are in the prevention of hospital-acquired infections, infection in immunocompromised children and Long COVID.

She earned her undergraduate degree with honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and received her medical degree from the Medical School for International Health, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel. Dr. Edwards completed her pediatric residency at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Edwards joined the UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital staff in 2013. Her research interests include the appropriate use of antibiotics in neutropenic and non-neutropenic patients with fever and a central line, and in improving patient outcomes through blood culture stewardship.

In the spring of 2021, she helped establish and is now the Director of the Pediatric COVID Recovery Clinic for Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital.  She is a constant advocate for patients with Long COVID and often speaks locally, nationally and internationally about Long COVID in order to increase awareness of how this illness affects children.