About
Kara W. Chew, MD, MS is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE) at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is an infectious diseases clinician and clinical translational investigator whose research focuses on clinical trials of immunotherapeutic strategies for HIV remission and COVID-19 prevention. She directs the UCLA-Charles Drew University Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Clinical Science Core and leads the UCLA CARE Center Clinical Research Site for NIH Division of AIDS HIV Network treatment and prevention trials. She earned a BA and MD through the Program in Liberal Medical Education at Brown University, completed clinical training in internal medicine at University of California, San Francisco, and clinical and research training in infectious diseases at University of California, Los Angeles, where she also earned a Master of Science in Clinical Research.