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Kara Wools-Kaloustian MD

Antiretroviral treatment scale up: successes, bottlenecks, loss to follow-up, outcomes





Dr. Wools-Kaloustian is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease at Indiana University School of Medicine. She received a BA in Biology and Chemistry from Hanover College, an MD from IU, and a Masters in Clinical Research from IU. She completed residency in Internal Medicine at IU and subsequently staid to complete her fellowship in Infectious Disease. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and hold a certificate in Travel and Tropical Medicine. She started working in Kenya in 1991 as a resident in Internal Medicine and has continued her relationship with Moi University for the last 20 years. She has led the infectious disease research program in western Kenya for the past seven years. She is the senior HIV-Clinical advisor to the United States Agency for International Development – Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (USAID-AMPATH) Partnership. Her focus is on Implementation Research as it relates to HIV-care and treatment in resource poor setting in particular sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of her research has involved the development and assessment of task shifting models within HIV care programs as well as the evaluation of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (pMTCT) interventions as they are implemented in real world settings. She is co-PI on the East African International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Grant an NIH grant to designed utilize existing HIV clinical databases to assess the epidemiology of HIV rollout including assessing which programmatic structures are preferred in specific environments.