Amy Justice, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine VA Chief, Section of General Medicine Section of General Internal Medicine

Mentee:

Leora Horwitz

Dr. Justice, chief of the section of general medicine at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, has conducted research on outcomes of chronic HIV infection for the past 17 years. Her goal is to use HIV infection as a model for improving outcomes in chronic disease by studying the association between mutable mediators of clinical outcome in HIV and intervening on these mediators. She is the Principal Investigator on the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS), which considers the complex roles of aging, symptoms, medical treatment, adherence, patient-provider relationships, disease severity, and medical and psychiatric comorbid illness in determining survival and quality of life for people with HIV infection. VACS has received five years of funding from NIAAA to conduct an expansion of the study to include HIV negative controls and additional study sites. Dr. Justice serves on the Executive Committees of the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, and the National VA HIV-QUERI Executive Committee. She has mentored approximately 30 individuals.