Research & Interest

Dr. Landovitz graduated from Princeton University in 1992 and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1996. He trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in Internal Medicine, and completed subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases and HIV at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Landovitz additionally served as Chief Medical Resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and continued on as staff in the Division of Infectious Disease as an Infectious Disease and HIV care provider and clinical researcher. He also served as Medical Co-Director of the Vietnam-CDC-Harvard Medical School-AIDS-Partnership, helping to train Vietnamese physicians in HIV care and treatment. His research focuses on HIV prevention; in particular, the use of biologic compounds and technologies to assist in HIV prevention. Clinical interests include care and treatment of HIV infection, HIV-resistance mechanisms and testing, Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, and prevention in high-risk HIV-negative patients. He is a member of the International AIDS Society –USA Core Faculty.

Selected Publications

• Landovitz RJ and Sax PE. Symptomatic junctional bradycardia after treatment with nelfinavir; Clin Infect Dis 1999; 29: 449-50.

• Landovitz RJ and Sax PE. NRTI-associated mitochondrial toxicity; AIDS Clin Care 2001; 13: 43-52.

• Hoffman RM and Landovitz RJ. Complications of Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV: Mechanisms of Action, NRTIs and NNRTIs. Hosp. Inf. Dis 2004; 9.2: 2-11.

• Hoffman RM, Katz JT, and Landovitz RJ. Complications of Antiretroviral Therapy: Protease Inhibitors and New Antiretroviral Agents. Hosp. Inf. Dis. 2004; 9.3: 2-9.

• Landovitz RJ, Jaganathan P, Bhatt A et al. Preventing HIV Infection after a potential sexual exposure. Infect Med, 2007; 24(6): 236-46.

• Jaganathan P, Landovitz RJ, Roland, M. Post-Exposure Prophylaxis after Sexual Exposure to Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Future HIV Therapy; 1: 35-47.

• Shoptaw S, Rotheram-Fuller E, Landovitz R, et al. Nonoccupational Post-Exposure Prohpylaxis as a Biobehavioral HIV Prevention Intervention. AIDS Care. 2007 Oct 24;:1-6 [Epub ahead of print].

• Landovitz RJ. Recent Efforts in Biomedical Prevention of HIV. Topics in HIV Medicine, 2007; 15(3): 99-103.

• Roland ME, Neilands TB, Krone MR, Landovitz RJ, et al. Telephone Hotline Provides Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Initiation and Referrals Following Sexual Exposures. Clin Infect Dis, 2008, in preparation.