Professor
MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; MHS Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Bloomberg School of Public Health
General Internal Medicine
Health Policy and Management
- HIV/AIDS: clinical epidemiology, costs, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes
- HIV/AIDS: clinical epidemiology, costs, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes
Research Projects
Alcohol and HIV Treatment and Clinical Progression
Modern HIV therapy is allowing people with HIV infection to live longer lives. Because of this, alcohol drinking may have a greater opportunity to cause adverse consequences. The study is designed to measure alcohol use in a population of HIV- infected patients in care, and to determine levels of...
HIV and Substance Abuse
The study will focus on long-term treatment and outcomes of HIV-infection in IDUs, and on co-morbidity such as hepatitis C. In addition, new collaborative efforts will provide new resources for research and mentoring. These include a new HIV primary care clinic on-site within a substance abuse...
Impact of TB Preventive Therapy for HIV/TB Co-infected Patients with Access to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A Phased Implementation Trial. A project of Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS-TB Epidemic (CREATE)
The THRio study is designed to determine whether the routine detection and treatment of TB infection found in HIV infected patients in HIV clinics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, reduces TB incidence in the clinic population receiving HIV care. Involving an estimated 15,000 clinic patients, the...
International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IEDEA)
Initiative to establish international regional centers for the collection and harmonization of data and the establishment of an international research consortium to address unique and evolving research questions in HIV/AIDS currently unanswerable by single cohorts. More than 200,000 HIV-infected...
North American AIDS Cohorts Collaboration on Research and Design
We propose to create the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NAACCORD) in response to the International Databases to Evaluate AIDS RFA. The NA-ACCORD is designed to be widely representative of HIV care in the United States and Canada, and is comprised of both academic...
- 129 original manuscripts
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24 chapters, reviews and letters