Southeast AETC
Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic
Vanderbilt Health at One Hundred Oaks
719 Thompson Lane, Suite 37189
Nashville, TN 37204
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Regional Scope
The Southeast AETC serves Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee through its central office and local partners.
Contact
For HIV training, technical assistance, and/or capacity building assistance anywhere in the Southeast AETC region, contact Jennifer Burdge, MEd with the following information: Name, email, phone, city, state, and description of need.
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Stephen P. Raffanti, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator
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Jennifer Burdge, MEd
Project Director
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Phone: (615) 875-7873
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Anna Person, MD
Clinical Director
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Cody Chastain, MD
HCV Director
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Sean G. Kelley, MD
PrEP Director
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Clare Bolds
Program Manager
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Phone: (615) 875-3943 -
Grace A. Parker
Program Coordinator
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Phone: (615) 343-3104 -
Kari Canpbell, PhD
Health Policy Services Analyst III
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Phone: (615) 936-6619 -
Hasina A. Mohyuddin, MBA, MS
Evaluation and Needs Assessment
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Clint Ribble
Media Specialist
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Phone: (615) 875-6344 -
Jake Souvannaraj
Media Specialist
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Tracy Martin
Administrative Assistant
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Phone: (615) 875-7871 -
Renee S. Garside, AS
Budget Analyst
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Phone: (615) 875-7857
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Articles: 11
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Curing Hepatitis C in People Living with HIV in the United States: A Federal, State and Local Collaboration
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection affects roughly 25% of people living with HIV (PLWH) in the United States (U.S.).[i] To effectively combat this epidemic, ongoing provider education has been identified as a key initiative to enhance screening, diagnosis, linkage to care, and treatment of...
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Short Bites: The Association between Oral Hygiene and Heart Disease
The emergence of chronic disease complications in controlled HIV disease has changed the landscape of HIV clinical care. HIV infection confers an increased cardiovascular disease risk which is thought to be due to a complex interplay of mechanistic factors. While traditional cardiovascular risk...
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Short Bites: The Association between Oral Disease and Type of Antiretroviral Therapy among Perinatally HIV-Infected Youth
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been very successful at preserving immune function and controlling opportunistic infections among individuals infected with HIV. Oral mucosal diseases associated with advanced immunosuppression, including candidiasis and hairy leukoplakia, are significantly less...
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Short Bites: HIV in the Southeast United States
Southern states today account for an estimated 44 percent of all people living with an HIV diagnosis in the U.S.,[1] despite having only about one-third (37%) of the overall U.S. population. Diagnosis rates for people in the South are higher than for Americans overall. Eight of the 10 states...
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Short Bites: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Update
HPV oral and oropharyngeal cancers are more difficult to detect than tobacco-related cancers because the symptoms are not always obvious to an individual, and health professionals may lack the education and background to diagnose HPV-related lesions. Although there are many adjunctive oral...
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Short Bites: What Is a Dental Emergency?
What is a dental emergency?I often get this question from non-dental personnel including case managers, physician assistants, nurses, and nurse practitioners. The following is a short list of questions you can ask patients to guide dental referrals for emergency...
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Short Bites: Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) on Oral Lesions
A recent study that was conducted among 1200 HIV patient of whom 600 each belonged to with ART and without ART and the occurrence of oral candidiasis and oral hairy leukoplakia. This study shows that oral candidiasis and leukoplakia was less among patients on ART as well as a decrease in the...
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Short Bites: Do I Pre-medicate Patients Based on a High Viral Load and Low CD4 Count?
The question I most commonly get asked by oral health providers is...
Do I pre-medicate patients based on a high viral load and low CD4 count?
There is no supporting data to support the need for routine antibiotic coverage pre or post dental treatment based on the...
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Short Bites: Xerostomia in Patients Living with HIV
It is estimated that 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV. Of those, 1 in 7 do not know they are infected.[1] The number of new HIV diagnoses fell 19% from 2005 to 2014.[1] Because HIV testing rates have remained stable or increased in recent years, this decrease in...
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Short Bites: Periodontal Health in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services currently recommends that every person living with HIV begin antiretroviral therapy (ART) as soon as possible after diagnosis. Increased availability of testing and treatment along with the above guidelines have reduced the number of new HIV...
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Short Bites: One in Nine American Men are Infected with Oral HPV
According to a new study published in the Journal Annals of Internal Medicine, one in nine American men is infected with the oral form of the human papillomavirus (HPV). Nationwide, rates of oral HPV infection are 11.5% of men vs. 3.2% women. HPV 16, the most common type of high-risk HPV and...
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Smoking Cessation in HIV
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7/17 |
Webcast Wednesday: Multi-Drug Resistance I
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7/24 |
Webcast Wednesday: Multi-Drug Resistance II
Event type: Webinars
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