is a tenured Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) with secondary appointments in the UAB Department of Epidemiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology. She obtained her medical degree at the Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center College of Medicine followed by an internal medicine residency and an infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She has since obtained an MSPH in Public Health (Epidemiology) at the UAB School of Public Health. Her clinical and research interests focus on the HIV and STIs in women, specifically vaginal infections including BV and trichomoniasis. Dr. Muzny currently has R01 and R21 funding from NIH/NIAID to study the pathogenesis of BV.