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HIV Clinical Scholars Fellowship: (HCSF)

The Center for AIDS Education (CFAE) at the Positive Health Program (PHP) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) will be offering a one-year HIV Clinical Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year. Candidates must have an MD and have completed a residency in Internal Medicine or Family Practice and be BE/BC.

Successful care of HIV/AIDS patients requires physicians with a specific medical knowledge base, an artful approach, and a capacity for managing a complex myriad of medical and social issues. This program will allow specialized clinical training for the next generation of physicians who will take the lead in shaping the care and policy for HIV-infected individuals.

This training program is ideal for a candidate who is dedicated to providing longitudinal clinical care of HIV-infected persons and educating those caring people living with HIV/AIDS.

Situated at SFGH at the UCSF-PHP, the fellowship includes the resources of a world-renowned faculty and clinic, as well as a geographical region with a high prevalence of HIV infection, in a diverse group of patients.

The fellowship will include a rich didactic program as well as inpatient and outpatient clinical responsibilities. Our curriculum focuses on providing intense training in the clinical management of HIV infected patients. As such, the training will include didactic and experiential training on the indications for prophylaxis and treatment of opportunistic infections, effective strategies for initial ART and effective strategies for salvage ART, with a large amount of time dedicated to the management of HIV resistance, metabolic complications of therapy (hyperlipidemias, insulin resistance, hyperlactatemia), bone complications associated with HIV/AIDS (AVN, osteoporosis, osteopenia), psychiatric issues that are innate or medication induced as well as oral and dermatological pathology.

Special populations of patients, women with and without pregnancy and those with HIV and Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B co-infection will also receive dedicated teaching. An emphasis will be placed on an interdisciplinary team approach toward patient care. Clinical precepting and academic mentoring will be provided. A segment of this 12-month fellowship will include an international work of at least 1 month in duration.

Fellowship Support
The fellowship will commence Tuesday September 2 and end on August 30, 2009. Each Fellow will be provided with approximately $54,000 salary.

For additional information or an application form
Please contact Stephen May at 995 Potrero Avenue, C/ O Ward 84 San Francisco, CA 94110 or by e-mail: smay@php.ucsf.edu.

Deadline for applications is March 1, 2008. Interviews will conducted for candidates during March and if necessary during April 2008. Notification of acceptance will be given by May 15th. Candidates who are of a minority ethnic group are strongly encouraged to apply.



NIH HIV Translational Research Fellowship
This NIH T32 fellowship program is designed to provide high quality, multidisciplinary training to physician researchers for a career in HIV patient-oriented translational research. Fellows work under the careful supervision of a small and carefully selected group of geographically co-located clinical researchers and laboratory scientists. The program is co-directed by clinic-based (Diane Havlir, MD) and laboratory-based (Michael McCune, MD) both physician scientists.

The program is situated at the San Francisco General Hospital campus, home to the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI), the HIV Outpatient Clinic, a large HIV clinical trials program, a GCRC, and CFAR virology, immunology, and pharmacology core laboratories.

Program Fundamentals: (a) hypothesis-driven patient oriented translational research; (b) co-mentoring by a clinical and laboratory scientist; (c) didactic training in clinical research, manuscript, and grant preparation; (d) "hands-on" work in the laboratory; and (e) recruitment and retention of women and minorities in the program. We expect our graduates to secure K23, VA career, R03, R21, or R01 grants upon completion of the program, to have a track record of publications, and to be well on their way to a path of an independent investigator.

Contact Dr. Diane Havlir for more details at dhavlir@php.ucsf.edu.