UAB 1917 Clinic COHORT

	Maria Pisu, PhD - Health Economics Dr. Pisu obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University, and then worked for two years at the CDC as a Prevention Effectiveness Fellow. She subsequently received training in economic methods for the evaluation of health interventions and econometric methods for the analysis of secondary data as a post-doctoral fellow at UAB. Since joining the faculty at UAB, Dr. Pisu has worked on numerous projects related to health economics with the 1917 Clinic Cohort.
	Linda Moneyham, DSN, RN, FAAN - Rural & Womens Health Dr. Linda Moneyham, a professor in the UAB School of Nursing, is an expert in women’s health, psychological stress and coping, and adaptation to chronic illness. Dr. Moneyham’s program of research spans more than 15 years and is focused on the development and testing of interventions supporting positive adaptational outcomes for HIV+ women. Her current research tests a peer-based social support intervention designed to decrease depressive symptoms and promote disease self-management and quality of life.
	David Vance, PhD, MSN - Aging & Cognition Dr. David Vance has a Master's in Gerontological Studies, a Master's in Applied Developmental Psychology, a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, and completed 3 years of an NIA postdoctoral fellowship studying cognitive aging and cognitive remediation therapy. He has been project manager on several NIH-funded projects investigating cognitive and behavioral interventions in older adults. He has also conducted three studies on HIV, specifically examining cognitive aging and everyday functioning in this population.
	Susan L Davies, PhD - Health Behavior Dr. Davies is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior. Her primary research interests involve the reduction of risk behaviors in disadvantaged adolescents and young adults, specifically the prevention of adolescent pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (including HIV), and other negative outcomes in high-risk youth. Dr. Davies works with the UAB 1917 Clinic Cohort on numerous projects related to health behavior including studies of adherence.
	Eta Berner, EdD - Health Informatics Dr. Berner’s research activities include evaluation of health informatics and health services interventions, including an AHRQ-funded project at the UAB 1917 Clinic. She is a Fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. Dr. Berner has held leadership positions with numerous national informatics and health professions organizations and serves on several editorial boards of leading health informatics journals.
	Edward Acosta, PharmD - Clinical Pharmacology Dr. Acosta is director of the UAB Antiviral Pharmacology Laboratory. The focus of the lab is to develop state-of-the-art assay methods for antiviral and antiretroviral drugs, implement novel clinical pharmacology study designs into multicenter trials, and perform pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic data analyses.
	Jennifer King, PharmD - Clinical Pharmacology Dr. King’s research interests include the clinical pharmacology of antivirals and antiretrovirals in adult and pediatric patients. She is currently focusing on sex differences in antiretroviral exposure by evaluating the impact of endogenous sex hormones on antiretroviral pharmacokinetics in women during two phases of the menstrual cycle.
	Richard A. Kaslow MD, MPH – Epidemiology Dr. Kaslow is an internist, board certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Preventive Medicine with graduate training in epidemiology. As an expert in infectious diseases, he has a special interest in the natural history of HIV-1 infection and has pursued that interest through several cohort studies including a 22-year study of a large gay male population. Dr. Kaslow has worked with the 1917 Clinic Cohort on a number of projects and has mentored several students who have worked with the group.
	Eric Chamot, PhD - Epidemiologist / Analyst Dr. Chamot received his MD from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and his PhD in Epidemiology from Tulane University. His main research focuses on the measurement of patient reported outcomes, on the assessment of patient preferences and decision processes, and on the evaluation of the effectiveness, acceptability, and safety of interventions to prevent or treat infectious diseases and cancer. He currently works as lead investigator and collaborator on several international research projects on cervical cancer prevention among HIV-infected women.
	Andrew O. Westfall, MS - Lead Statistician Mr. Westfall received his Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Florida in 1994 and joined the faculty at UAB in the Department of Biostatistics shortly thereafter. He is the lead Master’s level statistician in the department of Biostatistics at UAB and has worked with the 1917 Clinic Cohort for over 10 years contributing to study design, statistical analyses, and manuscript preparation.