4840-Wools-Kaloustian, Kara

Kara K. Wools-Kaloustian, MD

Joe and Sarah Ellen Mamlin Professor of Global Health Research

Professor of Medicine

Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health

Executive Site Director for AMPATH Kenya

Executive Site Director for The Stephanie and Craig Brater Professor in Global Health Kenya

Email
kwools@iu.edu
Address
Rotary Building Room 132B
702 Rotary Circle
EH 421
Indianapolis, IN 46202
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Bio

In addition to serving at the director of research for the IU Center for Global Health and North Amercian co-director of research for the AMPATH partnership, I am the Co-PI of the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) East Africa Consortium. The majority of my research has been related to assessing the outcomes of antiretroviral rollout in sub-Saharan Africa. This has included assessing the risk of renal disease in HIV-infected Kenyan patients, outcomes of patients enrolled in care, task-shifting models within HIV care programs as well as evaluating the integration of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (pMTCT) interventions into HIV-care and treatment programs. East African IeDEA is one of 7 regional consortiums that have been constituted to explore the epidemiology of HIV-treatment implementation globally. For the East African Region this has included: assessing the trends in CD4 count at the start of antiretroviral therapy (ART); outcomes of pMTCT; issues related to loss to follow-up (LTFU); incidence and outcomes of Kaposi’s sarcoma in the ART-era; the issues related to pediatric and adolescent HIV; the impact of substance use and mental health on retention; and cervical cancer screening integration into HIV-treatment programs.

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