Kara Chew, MD, MS

Core Scientist, Combination Prevention Core

Kara Chew, MD, MS joined the CARE Center in 2010 as part of her Infectious Diseases Fellowship at UCLA, following internal medicine residency and a junior clinical faculty position in the Division of General Internal Medicine at UCSF. She is a research investigator at CARE, with a focus on studies to improve the treatment and outcomes of those with Hepatitis C and HIV/Hepatitis C co-infection. She is also an HIV and Hepatitis C clinician. Dr. Chew enjoys playing tennis, hiking, and otherwise enjoying the great weather in Los Angeles.

Contact: kchew@mednet.ucla.edu

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS:

1. Lu, M. T., Ribaudo, H., Foldyna, B., Zanni, M. V., Mayrhofer, T., Karady, J., Taron, J., Fitch, K. V., McCallum, S., Burdo, T. H., Paradis, K., Hedgire, S. S., Meyersohn, N. M., DeFilippi, C., Malvestutto, C. D., Sturniolo, A., Diggs, M., Siminski, S., Bloomfield, G. S., Alston-Smith, B., … REPRIEVE Trial Writing Group (2024). Effects of Pitavastatin on Coronary Artery Disease and Inflammatory Biomarkers in HIV: Mechanistic Substudy of the REPRIEVE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA cardiology, 9(4), 323–334. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2023.5661

2. Kim, J., Newcomb, C. W., Carbonari, D. M., Torgersen, J., Althoff, K. N., Kitahata, M. M., Klein, M. B., Moore, R. D., Reddy, K. R., Silverberg, M. J., Mayor, A. M., Horberg, M. A., Cachay, E. R., Lim, J. K., Gill, M. J., Chew, K., Sterling, T. R., Hull, M., Seaberg, E. C., Kirk, G. D., … North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design of IeDEA (2023). Hepatitis B care cascade among people with HIV/HBV coinfection in the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design, 2012-2016. PloS one, 18(9), e0290889. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290889

3. Berg, C. J., Patel, B., Reynolds, M., Tuzovic, M., Chew, K. W., Sico, J. J., Bhattacharya, D., Butt, A. A., Lim, J. K., Bedimo, R. J., Brown, S. T., Gottdiener, J. S., Warner, A. L., Freiberg, M. S., So-Armah, K. A., & Nguyen, K. L. (2023). Left Atrial Mechanics and Diastolic Function Among People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (from the Veterans Aging Cohort Study). The American journal of cardiology, 186, 50–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2022.10.035