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747 52nd St. Oakland, CA 94609 (510) 428-3337 Located in the Outpatient Center; 4th Floor |
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Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland Staff
Ann Petru, MD Medical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
Teresa Courville , RN, MN Clinical Nurse Specialist
Katherine Eng ,RN, PNP Nurse Practitioner
Carolyn Blodgett ,LCSW Clinical Social Worker
Peggy Macy ,MSW, Clinical Social Worker
Joyce Young, Office Assistant
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Dr. Petru provided care for the first pediatric HIV/AIDS case in the Bay Area in 1983. In 1986, she started the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Program, which has treated more than 700 HIV-infected and HIV-exposed infants, children and adolescents. Many of her patients were among the first to participate in AZT treatment and other clinical trials. These groundbreaking studies allowed her and her staff to evaluate many drug combinations for HIV management, new immunizations for children with HIV, and the long-term effects on children receiving drugs for HIV disease. Because drug therapies have been so successful, children are living much longer. Improved maternal drug therapies reducing transmission of HIV from mothers to their children, means there are now fewer infants born to HIV-infected mothers. |
