Work in Progress Presentations
Work in Progress presentations are opportunities for investigators to present current work and receive feedback from collaborators, investigators, and research staff. Presentations from prior UNC CFAR Work in Progress Meetings are below:
October 28, 2025
Seth Berkowitz, MD, PhD and Katharine Ricks, PhD – Preliminary Qualitative Findings from the Food As MEdicine for HIV (FAME-H) Randomized Clinical Trial
March 21, 2025
Jess Edwards, PhD – Improving Estimates of Mortality Risk Functions in Settings with Incomplete Data Linkage
March 19, 2025
Amanda Moy, BS – Discussions from the Data Den, “Adjudicating Clinical Outcomes”
March 7, 2025
Monica Diaz MD, MS – Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration in HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder
February 21, 2025
Eli Arant MD, MSCR – Infectious Complication in HOPE Kidney Transplant Recipients
January 10, 2025
Lara Valerio, MS, RD, LDN – Food Insecurity Prevalence and Risk Factors among Persons with HIV in a Southeastern US Clinical Care Setting
December 13, 2024
Cara Broshkevitch, MS – Sequencing HIV Diagnostic Samples to Detect Genetic Clusters and Assess Sequence Coverage Gaps
November 1, 2024
Alexis Vien, MD – Medications for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder in the Outpatient Setting
October 4, 2024
Shuntai Zhou, MD – NGS-based All-in-one Platform to Assess Recency of HIV Infection, Drug Resistance Mutations and Transmission Networks: Statewide Implementation in North Carolina 2018-2024
September 13, 2024
Alex Commanday, MD – Reasons for Hospitalization among Persons with HIV 2016-2019, Contrasting Adjudication versus ICD-10 Coding
August 28, 2024 – Special Presentation
Geetanjali Chander, MD, MPH – Alcohol Use among People with HIV
July 12, 2024
Thibaut Davy-Mendez, PhD, MSPH – LDL Cholesterol Response Following Statin Initiation in Persons with HIV in the US
June 28, 2024
Subha Sellers, MD – Addressing the Lung Cancer Screening Gap in People Living with HIV
June 21, 2024
Deana Agil – Reasons for Emergency Department Use Among People Engaged in HIV Care in the Southeastern US
April 18, 2023
Eli Arant, MD – Multidisciplinary management of people living with HIV and cirrhosis: a clinical cohort study
March 31, 2023
Amanda Moy, BS – “A Case Series of COVID-19 Hospitalizations in 6 Fully Vaccinated Adults with HIV Living in North Carolina”
February 10, 2023
Heather Henderson, DVM, MPH, PhD – COVID-19 Hospitalization Risk after SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Outpatient Treatment
January 20, 2023
Lindsay Browne – Changes in Clinical Characteristics at Loss to Follow-Up and Return to Care
November 4, 2022
Thibaut Davy-Mendez, PhD, MSPH – Comorbidity Burden and Mortality among Hospitalized Persons with HIV in the US and Canada, 2005-2018
March 20, 2020
Molly Remch, MSPH, PhD Student – “Hypertension Treatment and Control among Persons with HIV in Clinical Care in the Southeastern US, 2014-2019”
January 15, 2020
Sarah Rutstein, MD, PhD – “Aligning HIV risk and PrEP utilization in Malawi: a pilot study of serial risk assessment to guide counseling and improve risk-congruent PrEP use”
November 1, 2019
Thibaut Davy-Mendez, MSPH, PhD candidate – “Disparities in hospitalizations among persons living with HIV in NA-ACCORD, 2005-2015”
May 10, 2019
Matt Gileskie, BSPH – “Understanding Community and Individual Level Factors Associated with HIV Care Engagement”
May 3, 2019
Molly Remch – “Clinical and laboratory adverse events after initiation of integrase strand transfer inhibitors”