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Dr. Michelle Floris-Moore is an Infectious Diseases physician and clinician scientist. She received her M.D. from Cornell University Medical College and completed Internal Medicine residency at New York Hospital–Cornell, followed by Infectious Diseases fellowship at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she also earned a Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods. She provides Infectious Diseases consultative care in the inpatient setting and sees patients in the UNC Infectious Diseases Clinic where she provides General Infectious Diseases consultations as well as longitudinal clinical care for people living with HIV. Dr. Floris-Moore has research expertise in cardiometabolic and other non-AIDS comorbidities among people living with HIV. More recently, her research has extended to observational and interventional studies of post-COVID Conditions. She is MPI of the MACS-WIHS Collaborative Cohort Study at UNC and a co-investigator in UNC’s Global HIV Prevention & Treatment Clinical Trials Unit and the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). Dr. Floris-Moore serves on the Scientific Board of the HIV and Aging Inter-CFAR Working Group and previously served on the HIV Medicine Association’s Board of Directors.

In the news

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  Floris-Moore Delivers the Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture, Honoring the Work of Adaora Adimora

  Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and a member of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, delivered the 2024 Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture on June 20. Her presentation honored the trailblazing work of her mentor, the late Adaora Adimora, who was selected as the 2023 distinguished lecturer but was not able to … Read more

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  Reflections on Ada Adimora MD: A Bright Light Dimmed But Not Extinguished

  In this tribute to pioneering ID physician and researcher Adaora Adimora, MD, MPH, FIDSA, who died Jan. 1, 2024, two members of IDSA’s George W. Counts Interest Group, Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MS, FIDSA, and Celia J. Maxwell, MD, FACP, FIDSA, reflect on her life and legacy. Dr. Adimora was a founding member of the group.  … Read more

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