Dr. Isabel Cassetti is Medical Director of Helios Salud, Ambulatory AIDS Care Center,in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Medical Coordinator of Funcei (Center of Infectious Diseases Foundation) in Buenos Aires and Member of the Advisory Committee of the National AIDS Program, Ministry of Health Argentina. She is currentlyChief of the Infectious Disease Service at the Trinidad Hospital in San Isidro Buenos Aires.
Graduated at the Faculty of Medicine, Buenos Aires University. Residency in Internal Medicine at the Ramos Mejia Hospital and finalized her specialty in 1983. Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Guemes Hospital of Buenos Aires. In 1991-92 she trained in both HIV Epidemiology at the University of Miami School of Medicine and also in Clinical Area at the Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami as trainee of the Fogarty international training program.
Coordinator of the Infectious Disease Fellow Department at the Guemes Hospital and since 1995 she is the Director of Helios Salud.
She has published chapters in books connected to Infectious Diseases and AIDS and HIV.Advisor in Antiretroviral Treatment Guidelines for the Ministry of Health and Scientific Societies in Latin American countries.Speaker in many symposiums, congresses both National and International regarding HIV.
She is member of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, and was Vice president of the Interdisciplinary Society of AIDS and is Member of the International AIDS Society
Co investigator at the International Fogarty Training Program New York – Buenos Aires.
As Co investigatorshe has been working with the University of Miami Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and NIH National Institute of Health, US.
From 1995 to present, Dr Cassetti has been involved in clinicaltrials in the HIV field, as principal investigatorand as co investigator.
Main areas of interest: - HIV Positive Women. ARV treatment: new drugs and new strategies and HIV testing.
