Dr. Erayil Schmidt grew up in India and completed medical school at St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore. She pursued a Master Thesis in Public Health at Umea University, Sweden, before moving to the United States for her residency training In Internal Medicine at Loyola Medicine MacNeal Hospital. She then completed her fellowship in Infectious Diseases at University of Minnesota Medical School, where she served as the Chief Fellow in her final year of training. Her primary research focus is on Candidemia and resistant Candida infections, including molecular epidemiology of these infections. Dr. Erayil Schmidt takes care of patients with general infectious diseases and HIV in her clinical practice, and is particularly interested in the care of vulnerable populations. Her academic interests also include social determinants of health and Narrative Medicine.