Lisa K. Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine, Howard University
Consultant and Senior Technical Advisor, DC Department of Health

Phone: (202) 865-6620
Email: lfitzpatrick@howard.edu

Current HIV/AIDS Clinical and Educational Activities

• Co-Principal Investigator and Lecturer, Howard Local Performance Site, AIDS Education and Training Center
• Lecturer, Medical Students, Resident, Post-graduate Fellows
• Infectious Diseases Clinical Faculty and direct care provider for HIV Outpatient services Center for Infectious Diseases Management (CIDMAR)
• Infectious Diseases Inpatient Consult Service

Current HIV/AIDS Research Activities:

• Community HIV and health literacy, Dynamics of HIV transmission in minority women
• Determinants of HIV adherence and clinical outcomes
• Hospital epidemiology and infection control

Current HIV/AIDS Public Health and Research Activities

• Medial Epidemiologist and Consultant to Department of Health (DOH) HIV/AIDS Administration
• DOH public health liaison for HIV testing and linkage to care scale-up at United Medical Center

Volunteer Interests

• Dr. Fitzpatrick volunteers for the Adolescent Wellness Institute, an program for troubled and disenfranchised teenagers, N Street Village, a social support agency for homeless and low-income women. She also offers her expertise in health education to community groups including churches and community-based organizations serving the poor and disadvantaged.

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick is a board certified infectious diseases physician and HIV expert and researcher who has worked domestically and in Africa. Prior to joining the Institute and Howard faculty, she served as a medical epidemiologist for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. She was the Director of the Minority HIV/AIDS Research Initiative (MARI) which she established to recruit, mentor and support junior scientists of color to conduct HIV prevention research. Dr. Fitzpatrick has also led HIV-related field investigations and research to understand HIV transmission dynamics among black women, college students and incarcerated populations. Prior to leaving CDC, she was the Regional Director for the CDC global AIDS program in the Caribbean and was responsible for implementing the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the Caribbean Region. Her decision to leave federal government service was largely due to a personal desire to work on the ground and in communities of color.