Biography

Dr. Rohan Hazra is the Chief of the Maternal and Pediatric Infectious Disease Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH. He joined the NICHD in 2007, and has overseen the Pediatric human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS), a multicenter United States-based program that follows both perinatally HIV-infected youth and HIV-exposed/uninfected infants, children, and youth since 2008. In addition, he is actively involved in pediatric HIV clinical trials and other observational studies in the United States and globally. 

Research Intrest

Dr. Hazra's research interests include studying the long-term impact of HIV and its treatment on children, adolescents, and young adults who were infected with HIV as infants. In addition he continues to be involved in studies evaluating new antiretroviral medications and treatment strategies in HIV-infected children, especially in resource limited countries. 

List of Publications
Hazra R, Hance LF, Monteiro JP, Ruz NP, Machado DM, et al. (2013) Insulin resistance and glucose and lipid concentrations in a cohort of perinatally HIV-infected Latin American children. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 32:757-759.
Sohn AH, Hazra R (2013) The changing epidemiology of the global paediatric HIV epidemic: keeping track of perinatally HIV-infected adolescents. J Int AIDS Soc 16:18555.
Abzug MJ, Jacobson DL, Wang J, Van Dyke RB, Hazra R, et al. (2013) Pubertal onset in children with perinatal HIV infection in the era of combination antiretroviral treatment. AIDS 27:1959-1970.
Hazra R, Stephensen CB, Kiser JJ, Flynn PM, Wilson CM, et al. (2014) Vitamin D3 supplementation increases fibroblast growth factor-23 in HIV-infected youths treated with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate. Antivir Ther 19:613-618.
Kapetanovic S, Griner R, Zeldow B, Nichols S, Leister E, Gelbard HA, et al. (2014) Biomarkers and neurodevelopment in perinatally HIV-infected or exposed youth: a structural equation model analysis. AIDS 28:355-364.

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