VACS Antiviral Workgroup Neel Gandhi, MD Current Co-Director Members Scott Braithwaite Sheldon Brown Emily Cartwright Kathy DeSilva Jennifer Edelman Cynthia Gibert Matthew Goetz Vincent Marconi David Rimland Maria Rodriguez-Barradas Christopher Rentsch, Current Co-Director Janet Tate, ScD Founding Co-Director
Past work Current work Summary of Activities Validation of an algorithm to identify antiretroviral-naïve status at time of entry into a large, observational cohort of HIV-infected patients. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2013 Sep;22(9):1019-25. Impact of Defined Clinical Population and Missing Data on Temporal Trends in HIV Viral Load Estimation within a Healthcare System. HIV Med. 2015 Feb 17. Current work Hepatitis C Treatment Validation Determine ability of pharmacy data to identify whether patient has received DAA HCV treatment Compare pharmacy data-derived HCV treatment regimen with medical record review at Atlanta, Houston, Washington, New York and Los Angeles >95% agreement Hepatitis C treatment receipt and outcomes in DAA era