Dr. Mary Clare Masters, MD is an Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She completed medical school at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, residency in Internal Medicine at The University of Chicago, and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University. Her research interests center on long-term outcomes of and comorbidities associated with chronic HIV infection, particularly physical and neurocognitive impairment. In her recent work, she examined the longitudinal relationship between cognitive and physical function in older persons with and without HIV in the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study and AIDS Clinical Trials Group A5322/HAILO Study. This project was supported by a Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists’ Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) award from the National Institute of Aging.
