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Charles Carpenter, MD
Charles
Carpenter, MD, is an expert in the field of infectious disease,
particularly HIV/AIDS treatment and research. He practices at The
Miriam Hospital and is principal investigator of the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown
Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
located at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, RI.
In 1962, Carpenter started the Johns Hopkins Cholera Research program
in Calcutta, India, where he demonstrated the value of antibiotics
and defined the fluid requirements essential for the treatment of
cholera, including the potential for oral rehydration therapy. The
advances his group made in developing countries on oral rehydration
therapy were quickly adapted around the world.
Carpenter is deeply involved in the clinical management of all
people living with HIV. In 1987, he initiated a unique program in
which Brown University faculty assumed responsibility for all HIV
care in the Rhode Island state prison system. The program now includes
elective rotations for medical students, resident physicians, and
subspecialty fellows and has contributed greatly to improving the
overall quality of prison medicine.
Carpenter's research over the past decade has focuses on the clinical,
epidemiologic, and immunologic studies of HIV infection in North
American women. He is currently principal investigator on the Center
for Disease Control-supported project called the Study of the Unnatural
History of HIV Infection. Carpenter and colleagues have studied
a cohort of 912 HIV-infected women and 460 age and risk group-matched
non-infected women, in order to determine the characteristics of
HIV infection in women, and to quantify the immunologic responses
of women to HIV infection.
In addition to serving on several international and national committees,
Carpenter is currently an active member of the antiretroviral treatment
panel of the International AIDS Society. This group, consisting
of 17 of the world's top HIV/AIDS experts, develops recommendations
every two years that are used as international guidelines for antiretroviral
treatment. Presently, he is also working with the Clinton Foundation
on their HIV/AIDS initiative in India.
Carpenter is a graduate of Princeton University and John Hopkins
University School of Medicine. He has been a professor of medicine
at Brown Medical School since 1986.
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