Dr. Carina Cesar is HIV clinical researcher at Fundación Huésped, a non-government organization in Argentina that works in the public health field since 1989 with a human rights perspective focused on HIV/AIDS, STIs and sexual and reproductive health. Dr. Cesar is an Infectious Diseases specialist from the University of Buenos Aires and Masters in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Sydney. She works in clinical trials (sponsored and investigator initiated) and cohort studies. Dr. Cesar participated in the design, development and implementation of an electronic medical record sytem HIV-oriented used since 2011 in one of the Buenos Aires largest HIV clinics. She is investigator in The Caribbean, Central and South America network for HIV epidemiology (CCASAnet), one of the seven member regions of the NIH-funded International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) consortium. Her research is focused on the epidemiology of HIV in Latin America, the delivery of HAART in the region, risk factors for clinical outcomes that could impact in public heath decision making, loss to follow-up and the care cascade. Dr. Cesar is member of the International AIDS Society (IAS) and Argentine Society for Infectious Diseases (SADI).
