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Chris Pilcher, MD

Christopher D. Pilcher, MD
Associate Professor in Residence, Attending physician, Positive Health Practice, SFGH

Clinical Core Director, UCSF Options Project

Research Interests
Acute HIV Infection, Genital Shedding of HIV, HIV Diagnostic Testing, Public Health Interventions to Reduce HIV Transmission

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1) C.D. Pilcher, J.T. McPherson, P.A. Leone, M. Smurzynski, A.L. Peace-Brewer, J. Owen O'Dowd, J. Harris, C.B. Hicks, J.J. Eron, Jr. and S.A. Fiscus. Real-time, universal screening for acute HIV infection in a routine HIV counseling and testing population. JAMA 2002 Jul 10;288(2):216-221
2) C.D. Pilcher, H. Tien, J.J. Eron, Jr., P.L. Vernazza, S. Lu, P. Stewart, L. Goh, M.S. Cohen, et al.. Brief but efficient: Acute HIV infection and the sexual transmission of HIV. J Infect Dis 2004;189:1785-1792
3) C.D. Pilcher, S.A. Fiscus, T.Q. Nguyen, E. Foust, J.T. McPherson, D. Williams, R. Ashby, J. Owen O'Dowd, W. Miller, JJ Eron, Jr., M.S. Cohen and P.A. Leone. Detection of acute HIV infections during HIV testing in North Carolina. New Engl J Med. 2005 May;152(18):1873-1883
4) Fiscus, S. A., C. D. Pilcher, W. C. Miller, K. A. Powers, I. F. Hoffman, M. Price, D. A. Chilongozi, C. Mapanje, R. Krysiak, S. Gama, F. E. Martinson and M. S. Cohen (2007). "Rapid, real-time detection of acute HIV infection in patients in Africa." J Infect Dis 195(3): 416-24.
5) Pilcher CD, Joaki G, Hoffman IF, Martinson FE, Mapanje C, Stewart PW, Powers KA, Galvin S, Chilongozi D, Gama S, Price MA, Fiscus SA, Cohen MS. Amplified transmission of HIV-1: comparison of HIV-1 concentrations in semen and blood during acute and chronic infection. AIDS. 2007 Aug 20;21(13):1723-30.

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Education & Training

AB, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1986

MD, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, 1993

Residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1993-1997

Infectious Diseases Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997-2000