Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
Disclosure(s): Janssen: Advisor/Consultant, Honoraria; ViiV Pharmaceuticals: Advisor/Consultant, Honoraria
Michael D. Virata, MD, is an AssociateProfessor of Clinical Internal Medicine at Yale University in the Section of Infectious Diseases. He also has a secondary appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor in Nursing. He has focused his clinical career to caring for people with human immunodeficiency virus. He is the Medical Director of the Haelen-Infectious Diseases Center at the Saint Raphael Campus and the new Program Director for HIV Care and Prevention for Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT.
He received his medical degree from the University of the Philippines and completed his internal medicine residency at the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore before coming to Yale to start his ID fellowship and then completed another fellowship in Medical Microbiology. He decided to stay in New Haven after completing his fellowship training. He is an active member in the community and is involved with the New Haven Mayor’s Task Force of HIV/AIDS and is also the current President of the New Haven County Medical Association.
He has an interest in clinical research has participated in a number of clinical trials. Aside from HIV, his past research activities focused on MRSA bacteremia.