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Rick Hecht, MD

Frederick Hecht, MD
Professor of Medicine in Residence

Osher Foundation Endowed Chair in Research in Integrative Medicine

Research Director, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Research Interests
Primary/acute HIV infection

HIV transmission biology

Immunopathogenesis of HIV

Transmission of HIV drug resistance

Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV

Select Publications

1) Hecht F, Grant R, Petropoulos C, Dillon B, Chesney M, Tian H, Hellmann N, Bandrapalli N, Digilio L, Branson B, Kahn J. Sexual transmission of an HIV-1 variant resistant to multiple reverse transcriptase and protease inhibitor. N Engl J Med. 1998;323:346-7.
2) Grant RM, Hecht FM, Warmerdam M, Liu L, Liegler T, Petropoulos CJ, Hellmann NS, Chesney M, Busch MP, Kahn JO. Time trends in primary HIV-1 drug resistance among recently infected persons. Jama. 2002;288:181-8.
3) Hecht FM, Busch MP, Rawal B, Webb M, Rosenberg E, Swanson M, Chesney M, Anderson J, Levy J, Kahn JO. Use of laboratory tests and clinical symptoms for identification of primary HIV infection. AIDS. 2002;16:1119-29.
4) Deeks SG, Kitchen CM, Liu L, Guo H, Gascon R, Narvaez AB, Hunt P, Martin JN, Kahn JO, Levy J, McGrath MS, Hecht FM. Immune activation set point during early HIV infection predicts subsequent CD4+ T-cell changes independent of viral load. Blood. 2004;104:942-7.
5) Hecht FM, Wang L, Collier A, Little S, Markowitz M, Margolick J, et al. A multicenter observational study of the potential benefits of initiating combination antiretroviral therapy during acute HIV infection. J Infect Dis. 2006 Sep 15;194(6):725-33.

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Education & Training

BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1980

MD, S.U.N.Y. Health Science, 1986

Internal Medicine Residency, Residency Program in Social Medicine (RPSM)-Internal Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 1986-1989

General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco 1991-1993

PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS

George Beatty, MD, MPH
Susa Coffey, MD
Steven G. Deeks, MD
Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH
Bradley Hare, MD
Hiroyu Hatano, MD
Diane Havlir, MD
Rick Hecht, MD
Laurence Huang, MD
Peter Hunt, MD
Mark Jacobson, MD
James Kahn, MD
Royce Lin, MD
Annie Luetkemeyer, MD
Paula Lum, MD, MPH
Meg Newman, MD
Chris Pilcher, MD
Jacqueline Tulsky, MD
Dan Wlodarczyk
Paul Baum, MD, PhD
Peter Chin-Hong, MD
Mitch Katz, MD
Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH
Joseph M. McCune, MD, PhD
Mark Smith
Sheri Weiser
Michelle Roland
Robin Serrahn
Mary Lawrence Hicks
Sheri Weiser
Michelle Roland
Robin Serrahn
Catherine Lyons
John Friend
Rosemary DePerez
Terence Marcotte
Clarissa Ramstead
Lauren Poole
Tina Clark
Susan Stringari-Murray
Susan Shea
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