Update and Controversies on prevention of mother to child transmission
Lynne M. Mofenson , MD. is a Board-certified pediatrician and infectious disease specialist. She received her medical degree with honors from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1977, followed by a pediatric residency at Boston Children’s Hospital and a Chief Residency followed by infectious disease fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
She is Chief of the Pediatric, Adolescent & Maternal AIDS Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, where she has worked since 1989. She is responsible for program planning and scientific direction of research studies and clinical trials in pediatric, adolescent and maternal HIV infection and complications.
She has published on issues related to perinatal HIV transmission and treatment of pediatric and maternal HIV infection, and involved in domestic and international clinical trials of HIV treatment in children and women and perinatal transmission prevention.
She is Executive Secretary for the U.S. Guidelines Working Group on treatment of pregnant women and prevention of perinatal transmission, and the Pediatric Antiretroviral Guidelines Working Group, and consultant to World Health Organization on guidelines for prevention of perinatal transmission and antiretroviral treatment of children and women.