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Ann M. Dennis, MD, MS | Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases

Ann M. Dennis, MD, MS

Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine

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130 Mason Farm Road, 2nd Floor
CB# 7030
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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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.

Education 

  • Undergraduate

    Johns Hopkins University

  • Medical School

    University of New Mexico

  • Residency

    Brown University

  • Fellowship

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • MS

    Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin