Dr. Kathy Ferrer, GHI’s education director, will be giving this lecture on Global HIV.
Dr. Ferrer is an attending physician in the Pediatric Hospitalist Division and the Special Immunology Section of the Infectious Disease Department at CNH. Currently, she is the Education lead for the Children’s National Global Health Initiative and serves on the Global Health Steering Community for the APPD (Association of Pediatric Program Directors). She is a clinician for the Children’s National Special Immunology clinic caring for children with perinatally- and horizontally-acquired HIV and the co-director for the Ryan White HIV Services Quality Management Committee. She is a Global Health Faculty Mentor for CNHS residents and co-director of the Global Child Health Curriculum at CNH. Previously, she served as the Medical Director of the Baylor College of Medicine Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence in Maseru, Lesotho from 2005-2009 where she assisted with scale-up of pediatric HIV care and treatment for the country. She has lectured frequently on pediatric HIV, malnutrition, tuberculosis and global health topics in sub-Saharan Africa, Romania, Kyrgyzstan, China and the United States. She also served as a locum tenens physician for the Indian Health Service in Chinle, Arizona. She completed her internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 2003.
