Contributing Physicians
Moderator: Mark H. Katz, M.D.
- Mark H. Katz, M.D. : Regional HIV/AIDS Physician Coordinator Kaiser Permanente of Southern California
Dr. Mark Katz was born in New York City, and attended college at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, from which he graduated in 1971 with distinction in all subjects. He continued his professional education at State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, and received his MD degree from there, cum laude, in 1971. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison, and has been board certified in internal medicine since 1978. In addition, he began working in an emergency medicine practice setting and holds a certification from the American Board of Emergency Medicine as well. More
- Ross Slotten, M.D. : Klein and Slotten Medical Associates
Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1954, Dr. Ross Slotten has held numerous positions in the medical field for nearly 20 years.
Dr. Slotten attended Stanford University where he studied the Classics, and earned a degree in Biology. After graduating Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1981, he began his Internship and Residency in Family Medicine at St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago, where he has been Associate Attending Physician since 1984. More
- Rodger MacArthur, M.D. Wayne State University Division of Infectious Diseases
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dr.Rodger D. MacArthur graduated from Northwestern University in 1977. He received an MA from Columbia University in 1979 and his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1983. Dr. MacArthur received his postdoctoral training at University Hospitals and Cleveland VA Medical Center and Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has served as an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Research at Wayne State University and has worked as an Attending Physician at the Medical College of Ohio and Detroit Medical Center. More
- Trevor Hawkins, M. D.
Associate Clinical Professor, Dept. Family Practice, University New Mexico
Medical Director, Southwest CARE Center, Santa Fe, NM
- John Barrow, M.D.
Dr. John Barrow received his doctorate degree from the University of South Florida. He has many years experience in the field of Pathology, the scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development and consequences. He also earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology and the French Language at Duke University. More
- Daniel Lee, M. D. Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine UCSD Medical Center Owen Clinic
Daniel Lee, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at UCSD Medical Center in San Diego, California. He currently practices at the Owen Clinic, which is the HIV outpatient clinic at UCSD Medical Center.
Dr. Lee attended UCLA for his undergraduate degree and received his MD degree at UCSD School of Medicine. In 1998, he finished his Internal Medicine internship and residency at UCSD Medical Center and subsequently joined the Internal Medicine faculty at the Owen Clinic. More
- Daniel H. Bowers, M. D. Pacific Oaks Medical Group
- Peter Shalit, M. D., PhD: Internal Medicine
An Internal Medicine physician in private practice in
Seattle since 1990, Dr. Shalit treats a large number of gay men,
many of whom have HIV infection. A particular interest and expertise
of his are the fields of gay men's health care and in HIV care. More
- Donna E. Sweet, MD: Professor of Internal Medicine at the University
of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita
Dr. Donna Sweet is a native of Wichita, Kansas. She attended
Wichita State University where she earned both her BS and MS
degrees in biology. She obtained her MD degree from The
University Of Kansas School Of Medicine. She completed her
residency in internal medicine at the University of
Kansas-Wichita and affiliated Hospitals in Wichita, Kansas and
was board certified in internal medicine in 1982. More
- Octavio Vallejo, MD., MPH: Faculty, UCLA Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center
El biografío en Español
Dr. Octavio Vallejo obtained his medical degree in Mexico in 1980 and his Masters in Public Health at the University of Miami in an International AIDS Epidemiology program in 1991. Specializing in infectious diseases and epidemiology, he has been working exclusively on AIDS for the last 15 years in Mexico and the United States. More

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