Medicine, and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.  Dr. Caliendo received a PhD (Biochemistry) and MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA and an Infectious Diseases fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA.  Dr. Caliendo’s research has focused on the development of molecular diagnostic tests for the detection and quantification of infectious diseases and assessment of their clinical utility; molecular testing in transplantation; standardization of viral load testing; and evaluation of HIV-1 RNA burden and the development of antiretroviral resistance in HIV-1 seropositive women.  Dr. Caliendo is an Editor for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Chair of the Microbiology Medical Devices Panel for the FDA and was Chair of the Diagnostics Task Force for the Infectious Diseases Society of America and is currently on the Board of Directors for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.  She served as the President of the Association of Molecular Pathology (2004), President of the Pan-American Society for Clinical Virology (2010 -2012).  Dr. Caliendo has published over 135 peer-reviewed manuscripts covering various topics in clinical and diagnostic virology and microbiology and was a recent recipient of the Ed Nowakowski Senior Memorial Clinical Virology Award from the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology and the BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology from the American Society for Microbiology. Medicine, and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.  Dr. Caliendo received a PhD (Biochemistry) and MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA and an Infectious Diseases fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA.  Dr. Caliendo’s research has focused on the development of molecular diagnostic tests for the detection and quantification of infectious diseases and assessment of their clinical utility; molecular testing in transplantation; standardization of viral load testing; and evaluation of HIV-1 RNA burden and the development of antiretroviral resistance in HIV-1 seropositive women.  Dr. Caliendo is an Editor for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Chair of the Microbiology Medical Devices Panel for the FDA and was Chair of the Diagnostics Task Force for the Infectious Diseases Society of America and is currently on the Board of Directors for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.  She served as the President of the Association of Molecular Pathology (2004), President of the Pan-American Society for Clinical Virology (2010 -2012).  Dr. Caliendo has published over 135 peer-reviewed manuscripts covering various topics in clinical and diagnostic virology and microbiology and was a recent recipient of the Ed Nowakowski Senior Memorial Clinical Virology Award from the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology and the BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology from the American Society for Microbiology.

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