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Savita Pahwa, MD. is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and Professor in Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Miami (UM) Miller School of Medicine in Miami, USA and serves as the Director of the UM developmental Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). 
Dr Pahwa’s expertise is in immunology and immune deficiency diseases and has been active in HIV/AIDS treatment and research in children from the beginning of the HIV epidemic in the USA.  Her major research interests are in the immunopathogenesis and immunomodulation of HIV infection.  She directs one of four US immunology specialty laboratories of the IMPAACT (International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials) group sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, and is an investigator in the clinical IMPAACT unit at UM. 
Dr Pahwa received her medical education at the Lady Harding Medical College in New Delhi, India, completed a pediatric residency at Kings County Hospital-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, and specialized in Immunology at the Memorial Hospital and Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, USA.  She has served as Chief of Allergy/Immunology and Director of the Pediatric HIV Program at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset New York, with appointments as Professor of Pediatrics at Cornell University Medical College, and Professor of Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine