Judith A. Aberg, MD, is George Baehr Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and also serves as the Director of the Infectious Diseases Clinical and Translational Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. Dr. Aberg earned her medical degree from the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine. She then completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Resident year at the Cleveland Clinic and her Infectious Disease Fellowship at Washington University.
Dr. Aberg's research career has been focused on HIV-related opportunistic infections, vaccine response, and ways in which inflammation contributes to the development of medical co-morbidities among individuals aging with HIV. She has numerous peer reviewed publications and has participated in over 100 clinical trials. Dr. Aberg has been instrumental in developing state and national guidelines for the care of HIV infected persons and serve(d)s on panels for the NY State Department of Health, International Antiviral Society-USA and the Department of Health and Human Services. She was the Chair of the HIV Medicine Association, an organization representing over 5000 HIV providers advocating for policies to ensure a comprehensive response to the AIDS pandemic informed by science and social justice.
Dr. Aberg is Vice-Chair of the REPRIEVE protocol.