Dr. Thielman is Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at Duke University Medical Center. He is a Senior Fellow in the Health Inequalities Program, Director of the Duke Global Health Residency Program, U.S.-based Director for Training for Duke’s AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP), and Clinical Site Leader for the Duke’s domestic Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group site.

 

His research interests are primarily related to HIV infection in resource-poor settings, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. With collaborators from Duke and Tanzania, recent research activities describe novel strategies for scaling up HIV voluntary counseling and testing in rural areas of the Kilimanjaro Region, the morbidity and mortality of AIDS-related complications at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, regionally relevant clinical staging criteria to guide treatment decisions, and early experiences implementing antiretroviral therapy in the Kilimanjaro region.

 

In 2003-2004, he received a Fulbright Research Scholar Award for his work in Tanzania. Dr. Thielman is a past member of the National Advisory Council for NIAID and the CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention and Treatment.