1. 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

2. 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 Sep;22(9):
Impact of Defined Clinical Population and Missing Data on Temporal Trends in HIV Viral Load Estimation within a Healthcare System. HIV Med 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