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Lenka Kolevic, MD

Lenka Kolevic, MD (Faculty Mentor) is Coordinator of National HIV/STI Control Strategy and Coordinator of the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Network at Instituto Nacional de Salud del Nino (Peruvian National Children’s Hospital). An established researcher and clinician specializing in pediatric HIV infection, she has participated in pharmacologic studies of ARV and STI vaccines and therapeutics for children in Peru.

Research Interests:

Antiretroviral therapy in pediatric HIV infection

Disclosure of HIV status to HIV-infected children

Selected Recent Publications:

Succi RC, Krauss MR, Harris DR, Machado DM, de Moraes-Pinto MI, Mussi-Pinhata MM, Ruz NP, Pierre RB, Kolevic L, Joao E, Foradori I, Hazra R, Siberry GK; NISDI Pediatric Study Group 2012. Undervaccination of perinatally HIV-infected and HIV-exposed uninfected children in Latin America and the Caribbean. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2013 Aug;32(8):845-50

Rath BA, von Kleist M, Castillo ME, Kolevic L, Caballero P, Soto-Castellares G, Amedee AM, Robinson JE, Katzenstein DK, Van Dyke RB, Oberhelman RA. Antiviral resistance and correlates of virologic failure in the first cohort of HIV-infected children gaining access to structured antiretroviral therapy in Lima, Peru: a cross-sectional analysis. BMC Infect Dis. 2013 Jan 2;13:1.

Oberhelman RA, Soto-Castellares G, Gilman RH, Caviedes L, Castillo ME, Kolevic L, Del Pino T, Saito M, Salazar-Lindo E, Negron E, Montenegro S, Laguna-Torres VA, Moore DA, Evans CA. Diagnostic approaches for paediatric tuberculosis by use of different specimen types, culture methods, and PCR: a prospective case-control study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2010 Sep;10(9):612-20.

Carrión AG, Laguna-Torres VA, Soto-Castellares G, Castillo M, Salazar E, Negron E, Kolevic L, Montano SM, Sánchez JL, Bautista CT, Oberhelman RA, Kochel TJ. Molecular characterization of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 among children in Lima, Peru. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2009 Aug;25(8):833-5.