卡琳一. 尼尔森博士

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Dr. Karin Nielsen is a Professor of 儿科 in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCLA Children's Hospital and a member of the UCLA faculty since 1996. She is an attending physician for 儿童传染病 at Mattel Children's Hospital and co-director of the 护理4Families HIV clinic at UCLA. Dr. Nielsen is a physician-scientist, 最初来自里约热内卢, Brazil where she graduated in medicine from the University of Rio de Janeiro and completed pediatric residency training at the Hospital dos Servidores do Estado, 也在里约. 从1991年开始在皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校, she completed both clinical and research fellowships in pediatric infectious diseases and obtained a master's degree in Public Health/Epidemiology. Dr. Nielsen's main area of research has been pediatric infections particularly in the area of HIV and congenital infections. She is an internationally recognized expert in the field of pediatric HIV and Zika.

Dr. Nielsen has worked extensively in international clinical studies focused on both prevention of perinatal and sexual transmission of HIV and has published extensively on the treatment of this disease in children, 青少年和成年人. She is a leading investigator in a number of studies conducted by NIH sponsored HIV networks such as IMPAACT, 这个实验叫做HPTN, ATN和ACTG, developing clinical trials in North and South America, 撒哈拉以南非洲和亚洲, many of which have changed management guidelines for HIV and more recently Zika. Dr. Nielsen has a very active collaboration with multiple sites in Brazil both on the field of HIV, congenital infections and more recently ZIKA virus, with active NIH grant funding for her studies. She is a key investigator in a large study of early treatment of HIV infection in at risk youth in 洛杉矶 and New Orleans and a co-investigator on a pediatric TB study in the Philippines. 此外，Dr。. Nielsen is an active clinician licensed in both the U.S. and in Brazil with an interest in tropical and neglected infectious diseases. At UCLA she is an attending physician in Westwood and Santa Monica UCLA hospitals and an attending in the HIV care outpatient clinic and pediatric infectious diseases clinic. She is also s member of the UCLA Institutional Review Board and serves on several NIH study section panels. Dr. Nielsen lectures worldwide on multiple ID and Peds ID topics and has mentored multiple medical students, 居民, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from North, 中南美洲, 欧洲, 非洲和亚洲.