Christine Wanke, M.D., is a professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, at Tufts New England Medical Center and the director of HIV Clinical Researc for the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She is also a professor in and the director of the Division of Nutrition and Infection and the associate chair of the Department of Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine.

She has research interests in the nutritional and metabolic complications of HIV infection and its therapy, including the risk for cardiovascular disease in HIV infection. Her research is supported by the NIH in the form of an R01, a Midcareer Award in Clinical Research. She sits on the AIDS Clinical Epidemiology Study Section for the NIH. She is a core director for the Brown-Tufts Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and director of the metabolic core for the Tufts Center for AIDS and Drug Abuse (CDAAR). She is the PI of the clinical HIV training grant at Tufts-New England Medical Center and is actively engaged in mentoring fellows and graduate students in clinical research in HIV.

Dr. Wanke also has research interests in intestinal function and persistent diarrheal disease in HIV infection and in children in the developing world. Dr. Wanke is a member of the executive committee for the Brown Tufts Fogarty training program in HIV in Asia and has participated in international research projects on diarrheal disease and/or HIV since the early 1980s. Her international work has included projects in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Thailand, India and Vietnam. She has published over 120 articles in peer reviewed journals and is an associate editor of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Disclosures

Dr. Wanke has received research support from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Theratechnologies. She is a consultant for Par Pharmaceutical. In addition, she serves on speakers bureaus for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Abbott Laboratories and Merck & Co.