Evolving Cancer Trends among People Living with HIV in the United States, Spotlight Series

Evolving Cancer Trends among People Living with HIV in the United States

The association between HIV and elevated rates of certain cancers has been recognized since the beginning of the HIV epidemic in the U.S. In the modern HIV treatment era, people with HIV are living longer, resulting in a shift in the number and types of cancers observed in this population. This session will focus on describing the evolving epidemiology of cancer among people living with HIV in the U.S. over the last 25 years. It will also describe disparities in cancer treatment and survival among cancer patients living with HIV.

 

Dr. Meredith Shiels earned her M.H.S. and Ph.D. in cancer epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She joined the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch (IIB) as a Cancer Research Training Award postdoctoral fellow in 2009. She was awarded the Sallie Rosen Kaplan Fellowship for Women Scientists in Cancer Research that same year, and was promoted to research fellow in 2011. In 2016, Dr. Shiels became a tenure-track investigator in IIB. In 2020, she was the DCEG recipient of the Women Scientist Advisor’s Mentoring and Leadership Award.