Faculty
Lynn Taylor
Assistant Professor (Research):
Medicine
Phone: 793-4705
Phone 2: 793-2928
LTaylor@Lifespan.org
Read Lynn Taylor's full Faculty Research Profile.
Lynn E. Taylor, M.D., is an HIV specialist focusing on HIV and viral hepatitis coinfection. Her research to date involves extending HCV treatment to persons with HIV and co-existing psychiatric and substance disorders.
Biography
Lynn E. Taylor, MD, is an HIV specialist focusing on HIV and viral hepatitis coinfection. She developed and directs Miriam Hospital's HIV/HCV Coinfection Program, which provides multidisciplinary care to HIV/HCV and HIV/HBV coinfected persons. After graduating from Harvard, Dr. Taylor completed medical school at The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Internship and Residency in General Internal Medicine at Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital. She completed an NIH/National Institute of Drug Abuse Research Fellowship (T32) at The Miriam Hospital/Brown University School of Medicine entitled, "HIV and Other Infectious Consequences of Substance Abuse." This Research Fellowship training grant focused upon cross-disciplinary research on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV and hepatitis B and C among substance users. Dr. Taylor developed and directs, "Make it HAPPEN in Rhode Island: Hepatitis Awareness, Prevention, Policy and Education Network." This program establishes Rhode Island's first free hepatitis C testing, counseling, referral and hepatitis A/B vaccination sites.
Interests
In 2008 Dr. Taylor received a five-year Mentored Patient-Oriented Clinical Research Award from NIH/NIDA (1 K23 DA020383-01)entitled, "Buprenorphine as a Bridge to HCV Treatment for HIV/HCV Coinfected Opioid Users." She is Principal Investigator of the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) pilot study, "Screening for Acute Hepatitis C Virus Among At Risk HIV+ Populations." The aims of this pilot study are to develop, implement and evaluate a screening strategy for acute hepatitis C virus infection among at-risk patients in an HIV clinic based on risk factors and ALT, and to estimate acute HCV incidence. She received a Rhode Island Foundation Medical Research Grant in February, 2007 entitled, "Identifying Acute Hepatitis C Virus among At-Risk-Hard-to-Reach Populations." She was the principal investigator (PI) of 'Caring for HCV at Methadone Programs,' (CHAMP), a study to determine if weight-based ribavirin and supervised pegylated interferon can improve treatment efficacy in HCV-HIV coinfected persons on methadone compared to historical controls from AIDS Clinical Trial Group 5071. In collaboration with Brown's Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), the Liver Research Center, and the HIV Epidemiology Research Study (HERS) Group, Dr. Taylor performed an analysis of occult hepatitis B and C viruses in the setting of HIV. She is co-Investigator on 1 R01 DA023570-01 "Stabilize Addiction/Affect, Begin Inmates' Interferon for HCV of Liver (STAABIHL)." The goal of this research is to determine whether reentry linkages to community addiction, mental health, medical, and social services can facilitate the antiviral treatment of HCV-infected inmates whose affective/anxiety disorders or symptoms usually cause denial or discontinuation of community HCV therapy, and whose sentences are too short for completion of HCV therapy in prison. She was awarded a Lifespan Developmental grant to design, implement, and evaluate a pilot intervention to treat hepatitis C with interferon-based therapy in HIV/HCV coinfected persons with comorbid substance and psychiatric disorders.
Degrees
MD
Teaching
UNIVERSITY TEACHING ROLES
2002-2008 Preceptor, Brown Medical School Hepatitis C Community Health Clerkship
2002 Summer Research Assistantship
"Hepatitis A and B Vaccination among HIV/HCV Coinfected Patients"
2003-2005 Preceptor, Brown Medical School, Infectious Disease Elective
"HIV/HCV Coinfection"
2003 Preceptor, Brown Medical School, Independent Study Project
"HIV/HCV Coinfection"
2003 Preceptor, Undergraduate Summer Clinical Experience
2004-present Mentor, Brown University Women in Medicine Mentor Program
2005-2007 Mentor, Brown Medical School, Residency Programs in Medicine Community Based Teaching Program, Immunology Center, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI
March 25-29, 2007. Mentor, Harvard Career Internship Program, Spring Recess Internship on HIV/AIDS, Immunology Center, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI.
2006-present Mentor, Roger Williams Medical Center/Boston University Infectious Disease Fellowship Program. HIV/Viral Hepatitis Coinfection Clinic.
May 7, 2007 Invited Lecturer, "Viral Hepatitis A-E," Bio 365 Combined Microbiology, Infectious Disease and Pharmacology. The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Fall 2007 Mentor, Doctoring Course I & II, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
2008-09 Mentor
April 9, 2008 Invited Lecturer, "Viral Hepatitis A-E," Bio 365: Integrated Medical Sciences II. Microbiology/Infectious Diseases. The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
HOSPITAL TEACHING ROLES
2000 - 2003 Immunology Center/HIV Clinic Attending, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI
2007-present
2000 - 2002 Immunology Center/HIV Clinic Inpatient Service, The Miriam Hospital, 2008-present Providence, RI
2002 - 2003 Longitudinal Rotation, Immunology Center, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI
2003-present HIV/HCV Coinfection Clinic Preceptor to Gastroenterology Fellows
2003-present HIV/HCV Coinfection Clinic Preceptor to Infectious Disease Fellows
Invited Lecturer
"Viral Hepatitis." Medicine Residents' Noon Conference Lecture Series, The Miriam Hospital, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI. May 12, 2004.
"Viral Hepatitis." Medicine Residents' Noon Conference Lecture Series, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI. May 27, 2004.
"Hepatitis." Infectious Disease Fellowship Lecture Series, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI. June 4, 2004.
"Foundations of Human Diseases III: Viral Hepatitis." University of Rhode Island, College of Pharmacy, Kingston, RI. December 6, 2004.
"Hepatitis: Pathophysiology and Treatment." Foundations in Human Disease III, Pharmacotherapeutics II, Infectious and Pulmonary Diseases. University of Rhode Island School of Pharmacy. Kingston, RI. November 7, 2005.
"Viral Hepatitis." Infectious Disease Fellowship Lecture Series, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI. December 16, 2005.
"Viral Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E: Pathophysiology and Treatment." Foundations in Human Disease, Pharmacotherapeutics, Infectious Diseases. University of Rhode Island School of Pharmacy. Kingston, RI. November 6, 2006.
"Viral Hepatitis A-E Complete." Foundations in Human Disease, Pharmacotherapeutics, Infectious Diseases Core Lectures. University of Rhode Island School of Pharmacy. Kingston, RI. November 30, 2007.
