Victoria A. Cargill, M.D., M.S.C.E., AAHIVS Director of Minority Research and Clinical Studies Acting Chair, Therapeutics Coordinating Committee Office of AIDS Research, NIH
Dr. Victoria Cargill was recruited to the Office of AIDS Research of the NIH in 1998, when she was a professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the director and founder of an AIDS education and risk reduction community organization called SAMM – Stopping AIDS Is My Mission. At the time of her departure the organization had reached over 80,000 teens.
A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, Dr. Cargill completed her residency at Harvard University’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and went on to practice at a neighborhood community center in the Jamaica Plain district of Boston, before returning to academic medicine at the University of Pennsylvania as an Andrew Mellon fellow.
In Boston, as well as during her tenure in Philadelphia she cared for HIV patients in the early days of the epidemic. She continues to see patients today in Southeast DC (Anacostia) while working to identify and address the gaps in the NIH HIV research portfolio with respect to racial and ethnic minorities.
Dr. Cargill considers her patients, as well as her sons -and the lessons they taught her while overcoming their disabilities – to be her best teachers.
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