Ann M. Dennis, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
Areas of Interest
HIV, Public Health, Molecular Epidemiology, Sexually Transmitted Infections
About
As an infectious disease physician, Dr. Dennis is skilled in HIV clinical management lending my research practical clinical grounding and relevance. Her research bridges basic, clinical, and epidemiologic science by using HIV-1 molecular epidemiology and phylogenetics to understand HIV transmission on a population level and use this information to direct prevention. Her research interests focus on the prevention of local HIV transmission, through understanding HIV transmission dynamics using nucleotide sequences, and computational and statistical techniques integrated with traditional epidemiologic and clinical data. HIV epidemics are composed of overlapping sub-epidemics defined by risk groups, geography, social interaction, and time. Her research goal is to uncover the links between these sub-epidemics to facilitate the design of timely, effective interventions. Research areas include monitoring and response to HIV transmission networks; HIV epidemiology and care among gender and racial minority groups, antiretroviral drug resistance, HIV outbreak investigations and partner contact tracing, detection and response to early HIV infection, and social recruitment methods to facilitate partner services.
EducationÂ
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Undergraduate
Johns Hopkins University
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Medical School
University of New Mexico
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Residency
Brown University
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Fellowship
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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MS
Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin