Marla J. Keller

Marla J. Keller, MD, is Vice Chair for Research, Medicine, Director, Harold and Muriel Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus centers on treating HIV and COVID-19 and offering in-patient infectious disease consultation.

After earning her Doctor of Medicine at New York University in 1993, Dr. Keller completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in 1996. She completed a fellowship in infectious disease in 1998 from the combined training program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Keller went on to participate in a Clinical Research Training Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which she completed in 2002. In 2018, Dr. Keller earned a Certification in Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers from Harvard University.

Building on her clinical focus, Dr. Keller’s research interests include the prevention and treatment of HIV infection in women, advancing the development of vaginal drugs and new strategies to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 clinical trials. She has been Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on many NIH-funded research projects and clinical trials, and she has given national and international presentations. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Keller is board certified in Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the Infectious Disease Society of America, the HIV Medicine Association and the Infectious Disease Society of New York. Dr. Keller has won several awards for her work, including the Infectious Disease Mentoring Award from Montefiore in 2013, the COVID-19 Distinguished Service Award from the Department of Medicine in 2021 and the Spirit of Achievement Changemaker Award from Einstein in 2023. She was also named a New York Super Doctor from 2011 to 2015.