Update on Cardiovascular Disease Risk, Management and Prevention in HIV
Dan R. Drozd, MD
Acting Instructor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Center for AIDS Research, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Co-Lead, NA-ACCORD CVD Working Group
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Dan Drozd is an Acting Instructor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington and maintains a clinical HIV practice in Harborview Medical Center’s Madison Clinic. Dr. Drozd is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed his Internal Medicine training at the University of California, San Francisco and Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Washington. Prior to attending medical school he worked for software start-up companies designing and implementing large scale data systems and designed and developed the software and database architecture used for the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) and the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD). He is a member of both the CNICS and NA-ACCORD Data Management Cores and the NA-ACCORD Cardiovascular Disease working group. His research interests include the epidemiology and mechanisms of cardiovascular disease in HIV and he is the lead investigator on several NA-ACCORD and CNICS studies examining CVD in HIV.
At the completion of this educational session, learners will:
- Understand the importance of traditional and HIV-related risk factors for atherosclerotic myocardial infarctions.
- Be aware of what we know (and don’t know) about cardiovascular disease risk stratification, prevention, and management including statin use and ART in HIV.
- Appreciate accruing knowledge about other non-MI cardiovascular disease events, including strokes and sudden cardiac death.
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