User:Rfweissman/sandbox

Biography
Dr. Sharon Weissman is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of South Carolina, School of Medicine (USCSOM) and Division Chief for Division of Infectious Diseases. She received her medical education at Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons in New York City, New York. She completed postgraduate residency training at Beth Israel Hospital in Brookline, MA and then Infectious Diseases (ID) fellowship training at the Longwood Combined ID Fellowship, Beth Israel Hospital Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA. During her fellowship, she spent a year dedicated to HIV clinical and research training. Since completing her training, she have been on the faculty at Case Western Reserve University, Yale University School of Medicine and now at the USCSOM. She is currently the Division Chief for Infectious Diseases at Prisma Health (formerly Palmetto Health)/ USCSOM as well as the Program Director for the Infectious Diseases fellowship at Prisma Health/USCSOM.

Dr. Weissman has had over 20 years in HIV related care, prevention and HIV research. She had been the principle investigator on over 20 investigator-initiated studies, receiving grant funding to support these projects. Since joining the faculty at the USC her research focus had been on HIV and health disparities in rural South Carolina. She has successfully collaborated with the South Carolina Department of Health and University of South Carolina School of Public Health to access health care and HIV surveillance data in order to conduct research on disparities in care and rural HIV infected population. Ongoing projects include an analysis of new HIV infections in South Carolina, late HIV diagnosis and health care utilization.