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Steven G. Deeks, MD
Steven G. Deeks, MD, is associate professor in the Department of Medicine at UCSF and a faculty member in the Positive Health Program (HIV/AIDS division) at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Deeks has been engaged in HIV research and clinical care since 1993. He is a recognized expert on the immunopathogenesis of HIV and works from a clinical perspective on identifying how the virus and host interact to cause disease and how to translate information learned from such studies into the clinic. He currently directs a large research program dedicated to the investigation of the pathogenesis and management of drug-resistant HIV and has recently expanded his research interests to include those rare individuals who are able to control HIV replication in the absence of therapy.
Dr. Deeks co-directs the Population and Clinical Sciences Core of the UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research and the UCSF SCOPE cohort. He is the principal investigator for a local DAIDS-funded clinical research unit affiliated with the INSIGHT network. He is also director of the San Francisco Community Consortium, a large community-based organization focused on integrating research with the needs of the larger community. In addition to his clinical and translational investigation, Dr. Deeks maintains a large primary care clinic for HIV-infected patients and is a member of the Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents.
