Prema Menezes, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Associate Director, Center for AIDS Research
Adjunct Associate Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Areas of Interest
HIV/AIDS clinical care, HIV clinical trials
About
Prema Menezes, PhD, PA-C, has extensive experience in grant management and administration. She is both a skilled clinician having worked in HIV care for over 15 years and a clinical scientist with experience in all aspects of designing, managing and implementing clinical research. As Associate Director of the UNC CFAR Clinical Core she helped establish several collaborative programs including the Acute HIV Infection program and the AIDS malignancy consortium. She has worked internationally and was the co-director for the Fogarty Global Health Fellows and Scholars Program at UNC. As an educator she has trained Physician Assistant students for over 10 years, thus ensuring the next generation of health care providers.
In the news
The UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is an engine for funding HIV research, supported by a competitive NIH P30 infrastructure grant that has been successfully renewed since 1998. It is also a consortium of three complementary institutions (UNC, RTI and FHI) as CFAR Director Ron Swanstrom, PhD, and Associate Director Prema Menezes, PhD, PA-C, … Read more
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Education
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MS
Bombay University
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MHS
Duke University Medical Center
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PhD
University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health