Dr. Susana Cabrera is an Associate Professor on Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay. She has developed her academic activity in Infectious Diseases, and she has been actively involved in AIDS care and research since 2002.
Since 2011, Dr. Susana Cabrera is the director of the STD-HIV/Aids Program for the Uruguayan Ministry of Health.
She participates and has participated in several Committees including the Consensus Panels on Antiretroviral Therapy, the Antiretroviral Resistance Committee, and the TB/HIV Committee of the Uruguayan Ministry of Health. She has also served on the board of the Pan American Association for Infectious Diseases and the Uruguayan Society of Infectious Diseases. She was also the editor and author of guidelines on HIV Opportunistic infections and national guidelines on HIV and syphilis vertical transmission.
Dr. Cabrera participated in continuing medical education by organizing and coordinating on line courses on HIV infection, antiretroviral therapy and opportunistic infection with the Infectious Diseases Department and also the Pan American Association for Infectious Diseases
Dr. Cabrera has conducted and participated in several clinical researches. Her main research topics of interest are HIV-TB coinfection and perinatal transmission. She currently leads the process of integration of services to improve access to care for HIV-infected patients in primary care services, TB, and Sexual and Reproductive Health.
