Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Chaisson R

Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Biography

Dr. Richard E. Chaisson is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds joint appointments in epidemiology and in international health, both in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His area of clinical expertise is infectious diseases, particularly tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.  Dr. Chaisson serves as the director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Tuberculosis Research, the director and principal investigator of the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research.

Publications

Building a Community - Academic Partnership to Enhance Hepatitis C Virus Screening

Background: An estimated 3.5 million Americans are chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). However, the majority are unaware of their HCV diagnosis and few are treated. New models are required to diagnose and link HCV infected patients to HCV care. This paper describes an innovative partnership between Sisters Together and Reaching (STAR... Read More»

Irvin R, McAdams-Mahmoud A, Hickman D, Wilson J, Fenwick W, Chen I, Irvin N, Falade-Nwulia O, Sulkowski M, Chaisson R, Thomas DL and Mehta SH

Research Article: J Community Med Health Educ 6:431

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000431

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