Dr. Jane Burns is the director of the Kawasaki Disease Clinic at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego and the Kawasaki Disease Research Center at UC San Diego. She is also a professor of pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Internationally known for her research on Kawasaki disease (KD), her passion for studying KD has spanned almost three decades, with her first publication in 1982. As more children who were previously exposed to COVID-19 were diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a disease highly resembling KD, Dr. Burns current work seeks to explore how genetic, immune, viral, environmental, and other factors influence the severity of COVID-19 in children and the chances of progression to MIS-C and other long-term complications.