Amy Justice, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and Epidemiology and Public Health

Mentee:

Kristina Crothers, MD

Dr. Justice is Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health and Chief of the Section of General Medicine at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Dr. Justice has done 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). This research, initially funded by career development awards from the National Institute on Aging and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 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 5 years of funding from NIAAA to conduct an expansion of the study to include HIV negative controls and additional study sites. Dr. Justice has experience with observational data including analyzing large and complex databases, comparing results across databases, and conducting observational studies. She has studied predictors of survival and quality of life and is expert in the development, validation, and evaluation of multivariable prognostic models. She 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. Dr. Justice has mentored approximately 30 individuals.