Jack DeHovitz, MD, MPH
Medical Director, AIDS Intervention Management System (AIMS)
Dr. DeHovitz has an exceptional understanding and knowledge of the evolution of research and treatment practices relating to HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, and has served as the Principle Investigator or co-investigator on a number of well-designed, focused studies which assess current changes in AIDS/STD treatment and their application to health care quality improvement.
Dr. DeHovitz has served as Medical Director of the AIMS program (a program of the New York State Department of Health's AIDS Institute) at IPRO since May 1995. In that role he is directly responsible for all medical matters relating to the AIMS program including supervision and training of the Physician Consultants. He also assists the senior AIMS staff in the development of the peer review process and the implementation of new review criteria. He also serves as IPRO's physician representative on the AIDS Institute Quality of Care Committee.
Dr. DeHovitz is Professor in the Departments of Preventive Medicine and Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. In addition to his academic role, he directs the HIV Center for Women and Children, an interdepartmental program that focuses on HIV care, research and education, and co-directs the Special Treatment and Research Program. The HIV Center receives more than 14 million dollars in extramural funding annually. Dr. DeHovitz currently serves as an Attending Physician at University Hospital and at Kings County Hospital Center.
Dr. DeHovitz's research interests have focused on HIV disease in women, the costs and clinical outcomes of HIV infection, and sexually transmitted diseases in the inner city. He serves or has served as co-investigator or Principal Investigator of research grants from NIAID, NIDA and CDC. Dr. DeHovitz has authored over 70 publications in medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and the Annals of Internal Medicine, and co-edited the definitive textbook on HIV Disease in Women.
Dr. DeHovitz received his MD and MPH degrees from the University of Texas. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in 1983. This was followed by a combined residency in Preventive Medicine and Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the same institution.
Dr. DeHovitz is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the New York Academy of Medicine. He also serves as a member of a three-person steering committee of the New York HIV Research Centers Consortium, an organization of 22 research centers in the New York metropolitan area.