Faculty
Charles Carpenter
Professor:
Medicine
Phone: +1 401 793 4025
Charles_Carpenter@Brown.EDU
Read Charles Carpenter's full Faculty Research Profile.
Charles Carpenter's research over the past decade has been directed toward two main areas, the optimal treatment of HIV infection in North American women and therapeutic strategies that are effective in the developing world.
Biography
Dr. Carpenter has been involved in the care of persons living with HIV since 1982. He served as the site Director of the longitudinal CDC-supported HIV Epidemiology Research Study (HERS) from 1992-1999, and is now Principal Investigator of the CDC-supported SUN Study of the Natural History of HIV/AIDS in the era of effective antiretroviral therapy.
Dr. Carpenter has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Brown University Fogarty AITRP Program since its inception, has participated in the training of Fogarty fellows from each of the participating sites, and is currently involved in on-going research in Chennai, India.
Dr. Carpenter is Director of the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research. He currently serves as Chair of the Treatment Subcommittee of the Congressionally mandated NAS/IOM Committee to evaluate the President's Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Interests
Charles Carpenter's research over the past decade has been directed toward two main areas, the optimal treatment of HIV infection in North American women and therapeutic strategies that are effective in the developing world. He and his colleagues, Susan Cu-Uvin and Timothy Flanigan, have developed the Miriam Immunology Center, which now provides medical care for over 90% of the women in Rhode Island with HIV infection. In this setting they have, in collaboration with colleagues at three other academic medical centers, completed the HIV Epidemiology Research Study (HERS), which has defined the clinical course and response to effective antiretroviral therapy, over a 7-year period, in a cohort of over 1,000 North American women.
Dr. Carpenter has also contributed to studies in Chennai, India and Durban, South Africa, which have helped to define practical antiretroviral regimens that can be utilized on a large scale in developing countries with a very high prevalence of HIV infection. These studies are continuing at the present time.
He has been Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research since 1998.
Degrees
MD
Teaching
Burden of Disease in the Developing World: Epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment of cholera. Epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment of AIDS.
