Center Hosts Symposium on Gut Dysbiosis
As a part of the META HIV CVD Project Program Grant, our team hosted a symposium at the Research Society of Alcoholism annual meeting. The symposium was titled Alcohol, Gut Dysbiosis, Inflammation, and non-AIDS Diseases among People with HIV. Presenters of the symposium were Drs. Kendall Bryant, Matt Freiberg, Shirish Barve, Smita Ghare, Kaku So-Armah, Samuel Mensah, Natalie Chichetto, Vaughn Bryant, and Curtis Gabriel.
Team Member Spotlight: Mike Lann
Mike Lann
Mike, a programmer on the team, answers some hard-hitting questions for us to get to know him better.
Describe your role here at Team V-CREATE.
I have been working as a programmer for the team for over 4 years. I live in Pittsburgh, PA. I work primarily with SAS, SQL Server, and Python to produce datasets or software tools for the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) and affiliated cohorts.
Team Member Spotlight: Amy Mellies
Amy Mellies, MPH
Amy is the newest member of our team. She answered some questions below so we can get to know her better.
Describe your role here at Team V-CREATE.
I am a programmer based out of Colorado*, supporting V-CREATE research by producing analytic datasets from the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) and affiliated cohorts.
Call for Abstracts: URBAN ARCH Annual Meeting
Announced by our colleagues at the Uganda Russia Boston Alcohol Network for Alcohol Research Collaboration on HIV/AIDS (URBAN ARCH)
Upcoming URBAN ARCH Center Workshop with Dr. Judy Hahn
The International URBAN ARCH Center Training & Mentoring Program Presents an upcoming workshop.
Are you interested in helping understand how to get more accurate measures of alcohol use in research?
Measuring Alcohol Use: A Workshop with Dr. Judy Hahn
January 24, 2022 4 PM - 5 PM EST / 1 PM - 2 PM PST
AHA News Release featuring findings: HIV linked with increased risk of sudden cardiac death
Heart News by The American Heart Association interviewed Drs. Freiberg and Tseng about their teams' work on the publication HIV Infection and the Risk of World Health Organization–Defined Sudden Cardiac Death. The highlighted findings were:
V-CREATE published in Circulation
Work by Dr. Freiberg and Dr. Beckman was recently published in Circulation, the Journal of the American Heart Association. The work shows that independent of traditional risk factors, the presence of microvascular disease increases the risk of amputation alone and synergistically increases risk in patients with peripheral artery disease.The full article can be found here.
Dr. Matthew Freiberg named the Dorothy and Laurence Grossman Endowed Chair in Cardiology
Congratulations to Dr. Freiberg who was named the Dorothy and Laurence Grossman Chair in Cardiology!
Sudden Cardiac Death and HIV at CROI
Dr. Freiberg presented "Sudden Cardiac Death Among HIV-Infected and -Uninfected Veterans” on behalf of V-CREATE team members at this year's Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle. The authors of this project are Matthew S. Freiberg, Meredith S. Duncan, Suman Kundu, Asri Mumpuni, Emily Epstein, Annie Bedigian, Amy C Justice, Eric Vittinghoff, and Zian Tseng.