The overarching mission of our research program is to improve the lives of people living with HIV infection, especially older adults, through clinical/translational investigation.
Effective antiretroviral therapy has enabled people to live, and grow old, with HIV. As a result, the population with HIV is aging. In New York State, nearly 60% of people with HIV are 50 years of age or older, and more than 20% are 60+. We are a collaborative team of specialists from the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatric Medicine. Our research program aims to understand how HIV affects older people in order to help them lead healthy lives. Some of work focuses on co-morbidities and treatment-related complications in people with HIV. We use clinical epidemiological methods, clinical trials, and translational studies to try to answer hypothesis-driven questions.
Biography
I graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed my Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. I have a Ph.D. in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. I am Associate Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Medicine, and direct the Weill Cornell HIV Clinical Trials Unit. I am also the Regional Clinical Director of the federally funded Northeast Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center and the medical director of the consortium site at Weill Cornell.
