Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

Prema Menezes

Prema Menezes
Department of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Biography

Dr. Prema Menezes PhD, PA-C is an Epidemiologist and Clinical Scientist with a broad background that includes 12 years of HIV clinical care and direct involvement in the design, conduct and implementation of clinical trials and translational and laboratory based research. She is  Co-Director of the UNC Center for AIDS Research – Clinical Core; sub-investigator in the AIDS Malignancy Consortium at UNC; and an adjunct professor at Duke University.; conduct of clinical trials - ethics, good clinical practice, CONSORT.  She teaches graduate students at UNC and Duke University and provides mentorship to masters, doctoral and post doctoral students. She is the course coordinator and co-Instructor for the clinical trials course for the graduate program at UNC. She has collaborated in several successful NIH funded grant applications.

Research Interest

HIV Clinical Trials - design, analysis, interpretation and reporting; trial effect in clinical trials and how it influences Outcomes; barriers and motivators to clinical trial participation.