Amy Justice, MD, MSc, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
Section Chief, West Haven VA Healthcare System

Dr. Amy Justice has conducted research focused on outcomes in chronic HIV infection for over 25 years. Her goal is to use aging with HIV infection as a model for understanding and improving outcomes in chronic disease. She is the principal investigator on the Veterans Aging Cohort Study.

Her research considers the complex roles of aging, symptoms, medical treatment, adherence, patient-provider relationships, disease severity, and medical and psychiatric comorbid illness in determining survival and quality of life for people with HIV infection.

Dr. Justice has studied predictors of survival and quality of life and is expert in the development, validation, and evaluation of multivariable prognostic models. She has published over 200 papers and served on thirty expert panels addressing issues of understanding and improving clinical outcomes in HIV infection.

She is an authority on issues surrounding HIV and aging and has presented on this topic at the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, chaired NIH special emphasis grant reviews, helped draft the first set of treatment recommendations jointly sponsored by American Academy of HIV Medicine and the American Geriatrics Society, and is a member of the Working Group on HIV and Aging for the Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health.

 

 Public Events

Medicine Grand Rounds

“Risk Assessment and Personalized Health Care in the Electronic Era:
What Can A Bunch of Aging Veterans Teach Us About Health Care?”

 Thursday, September 6, 2012
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
4th Floor Old Clinic Auditorium

 Friday Morning Infectious Disease Conference

“HIV, Aging, and Cancer Screening: One Size Does Not Fit All”

Friday, September 7, 2012
8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
1131 Bioinformatics Building
UNC Campus (directions)

 Refreshments will be served.

Janet Jordon Fischer, MD (1923 – 2007)
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, UNC School of Medicine

Funding provided by the children of Janet and Newton Fischer and the UNC Institute for
Global Health & Infectious Diseases

About Friday ID Conference

The Division of Infectious Diseases, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases, and Center for AIDS Research at UNC co-sponsor a weekly conference series which features distinguished clinicians and scientists from UNC, local universities, and other national and international institutions. The topics are varied and appeal to not only infectious disease specialists, but also professionals in epidemiology, public health, microbiology, biostatistics and other global health-related disciplines.

The conference takes place every Friday, September through June, from 8:30-9:30 a.m. in 1131 Bioinformatics (first floor auditorium) on the UNC campus. For more information, or to suggest a speaker, please contact the conference coordinator, Kathy James. To sign-up to receive weekly announcements of the conference, click here.