| STATEWIDE HIV CLINICAL LEAD | |
| .......Newton
E. Hyslop, Jr., MD
is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Adult Infectious Diseases Section
at Tulane University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Public
Health and Community Medicine at Louisiana State University School of Medicine
in New Orleans. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard
Medical School, trained in medicine and infectious diseases at the Massachusetts
General Hospital and at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts,
and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Allergy
and Clinical Immunology. .......
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.......His laboratory training includes two years as a Research Associate in Immunology at the National Institutes of Health and one year as a Harvard Moseley Fellow and Visiting Scientist in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. .......Prior to coming to Tulane in 1984,
he was a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School and of the Infectious
Diseases Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital. At Tulane he has
concentrated on building training programs in infectious diseases and
organizing clinical research focused on HIV infection, including serving
as the founding Principal Investigator of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) -funded Tulane-LSU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU) in 1987. He
has conducted clinical research on the efficacy of new anti-retroviral
drugs as they emerged, as well as on drugs targeted against the opportunistic
infections which complicate HIV infection. He has served on various committees
of the national AIDS Clinical Trials Group, been a member of the AIDS
Subcommittee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and served
as consultant to the Centers for Disease Control on the Prevention of
Opportunistic Infections in AIDS. He received funding as a Howard Hughes
Medical Institute Investigator for five years, and as an NIH-funded investigator
for 13 years as principal investigator and 5 years as co-principal investigator.
He is the author of more than 130 publications in the form of abstracts,
journal articles, and chapters in monographs and textbooks of infectious
diseases. .......In
1999 he was appointed Clinical Lead for the HIV Disease Management Initiative
of the Louisiana State University Health Care Services Division, a consortium
of nine safety-net public hospitals whose operation was consolidated under
LSU in 1995. These hospitals provide medical care to more than 75% of
the HIV infected population in Louisiana and to essentially all of those
who are uninsured or underinsured. His activities to date have included
coordinating with the Office of Public Health Ryan White Program to fund
computer access and upgrades in HIV clinics statewide, and to introduce
data systems which will streamline patient care, and provide tools for
monitoring quality and outcomes. The Lab Tracker data base will also define
assist in defining needs for performance improvement, and targets for
patient and provider education, to be performed in cooperation with the
Delta Region AIDS Education and Training Center. The Lab Tracker Project
at LSU HCSD has already been the recipient two important HRSA-funded grants,
including a Special Projects of National Significance proposal to study
the impact of introducing the data system on patient care and operations
planning. |