HIV Sexual Networks, Transmission Dynamics, and Drug Resistance
Susan J. Little, MD
Professor of Medicine
UCSD Antiviral Research Center
University of California, San Diego, CA
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Susan Little is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She conducts translational clinical research focused on the pathogenesis, prevention and treatment of acute and very recent HIV infection. Dr. Little is the director of the Primary Infection Research Program at UCSD, working to evaluate the epidemiologic, behavioral, biologic, virologic, and host factors that contribute to HIV transmission. She has been heavily involved in the design of novel approaches to screen and identify acutely infected individuals, and use of molecular epidemiologic methods to infer and characterize HIV transmission networks. Her current research is focused on the evaluation of treatment and prevention interventions directed to network hubs to reduce incident infections. She is actively involved in the training and mentoring of students, post-doctoral research fellows and junior faculty and is an active investigator in the UCSD AIDS Clinical Trials Group.
At the completion of this educational session, learners will:
- Know how HIV phylogenetics are used to infer a transmission network.
- Appreciate the frequency and cluster characteristics of HIV transmitted drug resistance.
- Understand the structure and dynamics of the HIV transmission network in a population of predominantly men who have sex with men in San Diego.
- Be aware of network-focused methods that may improve the efficiency of treatment and prevention interventions for HIV.
This PRN CME activity is funded in part by unrestricted educational grants from:
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Merck & Co, and ViiV Healthcare.
