Professor
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Morgantown, WV, United States
Judith Feinberg, MD, FACP, FIDSA, is the E.B. Flink Vice Chair of Medicine for Research, Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Professor of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. In 2005, she was the first physician in metropolitan Cincinnati to recognize that the injection opioid epidemic had arrived in southwestern Ohio due to the increased number of admissions for infective endocarditis. Understanding what would come next from her experience as a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Feinberg started gathering data and support for a syringe exchange program. In 2014, this effort came to fruition as The Cincinnati Exchange Project, Ohio’s 3rd syringe exchange and its first true syringe services program. After a long career in HIV/AIDS research, she was recruited to WVU in 2015 to develop a research program that focuses on the intersection of the injection drug use epidemic and its associated medical (overdose) and infectious (HIV, hepatitis B and C, endocarditis, etc.) complications. Dr. Feinberg is a previous Chair of the Board of the HIV Medicine Association and has served on numerous federal (NIH, CDC, FDA) and state committees dedicated to HIV/AIDS and the opioid epidemic. She has served as a research mentor for college students, medical students and junior faculty. She has held numerous federal (NIH, PCORI, CDC, Appalachian Regional Commission), state and industry grants for studies in the management of HIV/AIDS and substance use disorder and its complications. Dr. Feinberg is committed to turning the tide on these diseases that are devastating West Virginia.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
102 - HIV and Synthetic Opioid Use: Additive or Synergistic?
Friday, October 18, 2024
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US PT