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Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University
Disclosure(s): Aligos: Advisor/Consultant; antios: Advisor/Consultant; Excision Biotherapeutics: DSMB
Dr. Peters is Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University as member of the NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (ACTG). She was Chief of Hepatology Research at the University of California at San Francisco. She received her Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery degree and her Doctorate of Medicine from Melbourne University Medical School in Melbourne, Australia. She is a hepatologist with a particular interest in viral hepatitis. Her research focuses on viral hepatitis in complicated clinical settings, patients with co-morbid conditions including alcoholism and HIV infection. She has numerous publications on viral hepatitis with and without HIV coinfection in peer-reviewed journals with multiple collaborations. She led the Hepatitis Transformative Science Group (TSG) in the ACTG where she championed young investigators to be chairs of new trials in Hep TSG. In the ACTG, she has been e driving force in the development of US and international studies for new drugs for patients with HBV, with and without HIV.