Drs. Currier, Mangione, Shivkumar elected to Association of American Physicians

JUDITH S. CURRIER, MD, MSc, Division Chief of Infectious Diseases, director, Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE) Center, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases. Dr. Currier's contributions have improved the care for people with HIV. She played a leadership role in clinical trials that defined when prophylaxis for opportunistic infections could be stopped, identified strategies to optimize antiretroviral therapy in adults and pregnant women, and identified risks and interventions to reduce long-term complications of HIV. Over the past two years she has played a leadership role in the implementation of clinical trials to evaluate new therapies for COVID-19.

CAROL M. MANGIONE, MD, MSPH, FACP, Division Chief of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Barbara A. Levey, MD & Gerald S. Levey, MD endowed chair in medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Mangione is a pioneer in understanding how system-level interventions, benefit design, and cost sharing affect quality and outcomes for persons with diabetes. She has identified system and patient-level approaches that may mitigate health disparities for racial/ethnic minorities, older persons, and people with chronic diseases, or visual disability.

KALYANAM SHIVKUMAR, MD, PhD, Director, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & Electrophysiology Programs, director and chief, UCLA Interventional CV Programs & Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, professor of medicine in cardiology, radiology and bioengineering. Dr. Shivkumar is a physician scientist specializing in interventional cardiac electrophysiology. His research examines fundamental aspects of cardiac neural control. He has pioneered the field of clinical neurocardiology and the translation of neuromodulation therapies to the clinical setting. He has also promoted the concept of the ‘internet of the human body’ to highlight key biological principles underlying control of all the organs by the nervous system.