Geetanjali Chander

Associate Professor
Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Johns Hopkins University
United States of America

Biography

Dr. Geetanjali Chander is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include infectious diseases. Dr. Chander is director of the General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program. She holds a joint appointment in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She earned her M.D. from Thomas Jefferson University. She completed her residency at Rhode Island Hospital and performed an internal medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins. Her research interests include the effects of alcohol use and mental disorders on HIV disease outcomes. Dr. Chander was recognized by Johns Hopkins with a Scholarly Concentrations Excellence in Mentoring Award in 2015.

Research Intrest

Effects of alcohol use and mental disorders on HIV disease outcomes; Behavioral and pharmacologic

List of Publications
Chander G, Hutton HE, Lau B, Xu X, McCaul ME. "Brief intervention decreases drinking frequency in HIV-infected, heavy drinking women: results of a randomized controlled trial." J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2015 Oct 1;70(2):137-45.
Yang C, Linas B, Kirk G, Bollinger R, Chang L, Chander G, Siconolfi D, Braxton S, Rudolph A, Latkin C. "Feasibility and acceptability of smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment of alcohol use among African American men who have sex with men in Baltimore." JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2015 Jun 17;3(2):e67.
Lewis D, Hutton HE, Agee TA, McCaul ME, Chander G. "Alcohol use and unintended sexual consequences among women attending an urban sexually transmitted infections clinic." Women's Health Issues. 2015 Sep-Oct;25(5):450-7.