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Andrew Catanzaro, MD

Andrew Catanzaro, MD

Assistant Professor, GW SMHS
Infectious Diseases Physician, Unity Health Care, Inc.

Phone: (202) 569-8201
Fax: (202) 355-7601
Email: acatanzaro@unityhealthcare.org

Current HIV/AIDS Clinical Activities

  • Infectious Diseases Clinician, Unity Healthcare, Inc.

Current HIV/AIDS Service Activities

  • Unity Health Care liaison and Community Advisory Board Member to the District of Columbia Partnership for AIDS Progress
  • Volunteer Faculty, National Institutes of Health

Andrew T. Catanzaro, MD, is a clinician caring for HIV-infected patients at Unity Health Care, and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Health Care Sciences at George Washington University. He is responsible for HIV patient care at four Unity's clinical sites, as well as at the DC Department of Corrections. His board-certification is in Infectious diseases and Internal Medicine. He was trained at Georgetown University Hospital in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and HIV medicine. While at the National Institutes of Health, he performed research in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation under Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Catanzaro was a clinician investigator at the National Institutes of Health for seven years under Dr. Robert Yarchoan the National Cancer Institute HIV and Malignancy Branch, and Dr. Barney Graham at the NIH Vaccine Research Center. While there, he served as Principle Investigator for Interleukin 12 and its use in Kaposi's Sarcoma, and several HIV vaccines.

He has several publications on HIV basic pathogenesis, vaccines and on the use of interleukin-12 for the treatment of Kaposi's sarcoma. He served on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Institutional Research Board. Through his work in clinical research he has published on therapeutic vaccination for HIV, and holds a patent for a therapeutic HIV vaccine to resistance. Currently, Dr. Catanzaro is responsible for HIV patient care at four Unity's clinical sites, as well as at the DC Department of Corrections.

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