Stephen Karpiak Phd Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Usa

The National Resource Center on HIV and Aging targets the growing populations of older adults living with HIV including Long Term Survivors. The Center’s goal is to inform the health choices of these older adults, together with those who provide them with needed supportive services as they age. The vetted information offered by the Center reflects the cumulative expertise of community advisors and staff from across the country. The site is dynamic, providing texts, short videos, sponsored webinars, conference summaries, slide decks, infographics, and the most current research data available. The Center, a program of GMHC, also provides an interactive National Community Map on which users can find supportive programs and conferences happening locally. This effort supports the Resource Center’s mission by enhancing interactions that result in programs that meet the needs of older persons living with HIV.

New York University School Of Nursing

New York City

Has supervised Clinical Trials for new anti-HIV drugs at ACRIA. . Created and launched an historic and most comprehensive research study (ROAH) on the marginalized and emerging HIV aging population in the USA. His research has caused a shift in assessment of priorities of the care of this growing population as well as the need for multi-generational prevention efforts. ROAH has been adapted for use in multiple US cities, in the UK (London's Chelsea Westminster Hospital), and most recently in Uganda to be followed by South Africa and Zimbabwe. With his research team they have focused on the continued high rates of depression fueled by stigma driven social isolation and its impact on sustained connections to care and adherence in the context of HIV therapy and multi-morbidity management.

After his PhD in Neurobiology & post-graduate work in immunology, Stephen joined the faculty of Columbia U. Medical School in 1972 with appointments in Neurology. Psychiatry & Neuroscience. During his first decade at Columbia he conducted NIH & NSF funded research on the immunological etiology of seizure and behavioral disorders. In his last decade at Columbia he achieved national & international recognition for his research on how the brain adapts & repairs after stroke. He received NIH. NSF, foundation and pharmaceutical support for his research. He has given hundreds of invited lectures nationally & internationally. His problem solving skills are reflected in his being an advisor for the United Nations (WHO), serving on NIH peer review committees, NIH site visit teams, membership on multiple IRB groups, refereeing for leading medical journals, and providing testimony before government entities. He has published over 100 peer reviewed articles.

Phd, Neuobiology, Immunology

Ba, Psychology