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Associate Clinical Professor
University of California, Los Angeles, Greater Los Angeles Veteran Affairs
Disclosure(s): Gilead: Grant/Research Support; Regeneron: Grant/Research Support
Dr. Bhattacharya is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCLA, specializing in the management of HIV and viral hepatitis coinfection. She is the Co-Director of the Viral Hepatitis Program at the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (GLAVAHCS). Her NIH funded research includes studies which evaluate the predictors of clinical outcomes in HIV/HBV coinfected patients, including pregnant HIV/HBV coinfected women. She also conducts clinical research in viral hepatitis infection at the UCLA CARE Center and is the Chair of the Hepatitis Transformative Science Group within the AIDS Clinicals Trials Group (ACTG). She is a member of the writing panels for the CDC/NIH/HIVMA/IDSA/AAP Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections Among HIV-Exposed and HIV-Infected Children and for the NIH-CDC-HIVMA/IDSA Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents. She also chairs the AASLD/IDSA HCV Guidance Panel.