department of medicine

Section of general internal medicine

Comprehensive HIV Program

Program Overview

Research Interests and Clinical Trials

Faculty

Staff

The Temple Comprehensive HIV Program provides multidisciplinary primary and HIV specialty care for over 750 patients.  The services include routine and specialized gynecological procedures, prenatal consultative care, nutritional counseling and assessment, case management and access to clinical trials.  The staff includes an amalgam of general internists and infectious disease physicians and pharmacists in a collaborative ambulatory practice with nurse practitioners and infectious disease fellows.  The program is part of the Ryan White Title 1 participants in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and serves traditionally underrepresented minorities and women in a practice setting, fully integrated into the ambulatory medical offices.  We have multilingual staff who speaks Spanish, French and Dutch.

The Temple Comprehensive HIV Program is also involved in community outreach with presentations to patient groups, AIDS service organizations, medical staff in hospitals and prisons.  We have an annual HIV testing day program in North Philadelphia that promotes prevention and counseling for the general community.  We are also active members of community organizations that focus on prevention of interpersonal violence, hepatitis education and outreach, and needle exchange programs.

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The Temple Comprehensive HIV Program has been involved in research trials and activities since 1990.  We participated in some of the early NIH-sponsored trials to prevent mother-to-child transmission.  We have been involved in the Division of AIDS Clinical Trials Network since 1994 as a unit in the Terry Beirn Community Programs on Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA).  Our investigators have been active on protocol teams and working groups.  In 2005, our unit had the distinction of finishing first among all the clinical units and sites in data quality and performance.

Since 1998, we have been part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Cerner HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS), a dynamic observational database that tracks clinical trends and outcomes in multiple centers across the United States.  We participate in multiple investigator-initiated and pharmaceutical-sponsored trials and a link to them will be posted here in the near future.

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Our faculty have particular research interests in metabolic complications of HIV, resistance, co-infection with hepatitis B and C, women and maternal-child transmission, treatment trials, and complementary medicine.

Ellen M. Tedaldi, MD

Professor of Medicine

Director, Comprehensive HIV Program

 

Mary (Cissy) van den Berg-Wolf, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Deputy Director, Comprehensive HIV Program

 

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Robert Bettiker, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Infectious Diseases Specialist

 

Olga Klibanov, PharmD

HIV Pharmacist

 

Darilyn Moyer, MD

Professor of Medicine

 

Rafik Samuel, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Infectious Diseases Specialist

 

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Contact Information:

General Internal Medicine

Jones Hall, 1st Floor

1316 W. Ontario Street

Philadelphia, PA 19140

T: 215-707-1800

General Internal Medicine

Medicine Group Practice

Outpatient Building

3401 North Broad Street

4th Floor, Zone B (Blue)

Philadelphia, PA 19140

T: 215-707-3416

F: 215-707-6862

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