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Special Lecture by Dr. Patricia Volkow

Patricia Volkow, MD, is an infectious disease specialist at the National Cancer Institute in Mexico City. In 1990, she formed the AIDS Cancer Clinic at the National Institute of Cancer, and started her research on the impact of plasma and blood trade in the AIDS epidemic in a hospital where 60% of AIDS patients were infected through tainted blood transfusion. For the last twenty years she has worked at the National Institute of Cancer in Mexico and has held the position of Under-director of the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services since 2005. She has been member of the Clinical Committee of Conasida (National Council to fight AIDS) and has participated in the National Guidelines to treat HIV/AIDS patients. She is now member of the Council to Fight AIDS of the Mexico City AIDS Program.

 

 


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