Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Fellowship, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine 2010 - 2014
  • MScGH, Duke University 2012
  • Residency, Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio 2006 - 2009
  • M.D., University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio 2006
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics 2014 - 2015
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JAN 25, 2019

    Duke Global Health Institute

    A Novel Approach to Treating Teen HIV in Tanzania

  • NOV 14, 2017

    Duke Global Health Institute Newsletter

    DGHI Assistant Professor Tests Mental Health Interventions in Teens with HIV in Tanzania

  • SEP 26, 2017

    Fogarty International Newsletter

    Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Dorothy Dow studies suicide prevention in teens with HIV in Tanzania
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  Awards & Honors

  • Society for Pediatric Research. SPR. 2017
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • United Republic of Tanzania (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Integrating Mental Health into HIV Clinic to Improve Outcomes in Tanzanian Youth awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2020
  • LOC-IMPAACT 2016 Protocol Co-Chair support awarded by Johns Hopkins University 2017 - 2019
  • Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Consortium for Global Health Fellows (VECDor) awarded by Vanderbilt University 2014 - 2016
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Dow, DE, Mmbaga, BT, Turner, EL, Gallis, JA, Tabb, ZJ, Cunningham, CK, and O'Donnell, KE. "Building resilience: a mental health intervention for Tanzanian youth living with HIV." Aids Care (January 9, 2019): 1-9.  Full Text
    • Gichane, MW, Sullivan, KA, Shayo, AM, Mmbaga, BT, O' Donnell, K, Cunningham, CK, and Dow, DE. "Caregiver role in HIV medication adherence among HIV-infected orphans in Tanzania." Aids Care 30, no. 6 (June 2018): 701-705.  Full Text
    • Tabb, ZJ, Mmbaga, BT, Gandhi, M, Louie, A, Kuncze, K, Okochi, H, Shayo, AM, Turner, EL, Cunningham, CK, and Dow, DE. "Antiretroviral drug concentrations in hair are associated with virologic outcomes among young people living with HIV in Tanzania." Aids (London, England) 32, no. 9 (June 2018): 1115-1123.  Full Text
    • Dow, DE, and Seed, PC. "Clostridium difficile cure with fecal microbiota transplantation in a child with Pompe disease: a case report." Journal of Medical Case Reports 12, no. 1 (April 28, 2018): 112-null.  Full Text
    • Ramos, JV, Mmbaga, BT, Turner, EL, Rugalabamu, LL, Luhanga, S, Cunningham, CK, and Dow, DE. "Modality of Primary HIV Disclosure and Association with Mental Health, Stigma, and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence in Tanzanian Youth Living with HIV." Aids Patient Care and Stds 32, no. 1 (January 2018): 31-37.  Full Text
    • Dow, DE, Schimana, W, Nyombi, BM, Mmbaga, BT, Shayo, AM, Bartlett, JA, Massambu, CG, Kifaro, EG, Turner, EL, DeMarco, T, Cai, F, Cunningham, CK, and Buchanan, AM. "HIV Resistance and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Regimen in HIV-Infected Infants in Northern Tanzania." AIDS research and human retroviruses 33, no. 11 (November 2017): 1107-1113.  Full Text
    • Boerma, RS, Bunupuradah, T, Dow, D, Fokam, J, Kariminia, A, Lehman, D, Kityo, C, Musiime, V, Palumbo, P, Schoffelen, A, Sophan, S, Zanoni, B, Rinke de Wit, TF, Calis, JCJ, Sigaloff, KCE, and Paediatric Second-line Study Group, . "Multicentre analysis of second-line antiretroviral treatment in HIV-infected children: adolescents at high risk of failure." Journal of the International Aids Society 20, no. 1 (September 2017): 21930-null.  Full Text
    • Dahinten, AP, Dow, DE, Cunningham, CK, Msuya, LJ, Mmbaga, BT, and Malkin, RA. "Providing Safe and Effective Preventative Antiretroviral Prophylaxis to HIV-exposed Newborns via a Novel Drug Delivery System in Tanzania." The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 35, no. 9 (September 2016): 987-991.  Full Text
    • Dow, DE, Turner, EL, Shayo, AM, Mmbaga, B, Cunningham, CK, and O'Donnell, K. "Evaluating mental health difficulties and associated outcomes among HIV-positive adolescents in Tanzania." AIDS care 28, no. 7 (July 2016): 825-833.  Full Text
    • Ramaiya, MK, Sullivan, KA, O' Donnell, K, Cunningham, CK, Shayo, AM, Mmbaga, BT, and Dow, DE. "A Qualitative Exploration of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Contexts of HIV-Positive Adolescents in Tanzania." PloS one 11, no. 11 (January 2016): e0165936-.  Full Text
    • Dow, DE, and Bartlett, JA. "Dolutegravir, the Second-Generation of Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors (INSTIs) for the Treatment of HIV." Infectious diseases and therapy 3, no. 2 (December 2014): 83-102. (Review)  Full Text
    • Dow, DE, Shayo, AM, Cunningham, CK, and Reddy, EA. "Durability of antiretroviral therapy and predictors of virologic failure among perinatally HIV-infected children in Tanzania: a four-year follow-up." Bmc Infectious Diseases 14 (November 7, 2014): 567-null.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • O'Donnell, K, Yao, J, Ostermann, J, Thielman, N, Reddy, E, Whetten, R, Maro, V, Itemba, D, Pence, B, Dow, D, and Whetten, K. "Low rates of child testing for HIV persist in a high-risk area of East Africa." Aids Care Psychological and Socio Medical Aspects of Aids/Hiv 26, no. 3 (March 4, 2014): 326-331.  Full Text
    • Dow, DE, Cunningham, CK, and Buchanan, AM. "A Review of Human Herpesvirus 8, the Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus, in the Pediatric Population." Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 3, no. 1 (March 2014): 66-76. (Review)  Full Text
    • Buchanan, AM, Dow, DE, Massambu, CG, Nyombi, B, Shayo, A, Musoke, R, Feng, S, Bartlett, JA, Cunningham, CK, and Schimana, W. "Progress in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in three regions of Tanzania: a retrospective analysis." PloS one 9, no. 2 (January 2014): e88679-.  Full Text
    • Nsheha, AH, Dow, DE, Kapanda, GE, Hamel, BC, and Msuya, LJ. "Adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected children receiving care at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC), Northern Tanzania: A cross- sectional analytical study." The Pan African medical journal 17 (January 2014): 238-.  Full Text
    • Guadalupe, M, Pollock, BH, Westbrook, S, Redding, S, Bullock, D, Anstead, G, Agan, BK, Marconi, VC, Barbieri, S, Sankar, V, Rebeles, J, Flahive, Y, Schoolfield, J, Wang, L, Lei, X, Dow, D, Yeh, C-K, Dang, H, Infante, AJ, and Gao, S-J. "Risk factors influencing antibody responses to Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus latent and lytic antigens in patients under antiretroviral therapy." Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999) 56, no. 1 (January 2011): 83-90.  Full Text
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Association of Self-Reported Adherence and Antiretroviral Drug Concentrations in Hair with Virologic Outcomes Among Tanzanian Youth. CFAR Fall Retreat. Center for AIDS Research. September 18, 2017  2017
  • Adolescent HIV:  How to Break the Mortality Wave. John Hope Franklin Center. October 19, 2016  2016
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Global Health Outreach. Understanding Barriers and Successes in Transition of Adolescent to Adult HIV Care in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center . December 2016  2016
  • Global Health Outreach. Evaluation of mental health difficulties in HIV infected adolescents. Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center . July 2015  2015
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  Service to the Profession

  • Member. Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment Implementation Science Alliance (AHISA). Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health. March 2017  2017
  • IMPAACT 2016, co-chair. International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network. 2015  2015
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  Academic & Administrative Activities

  • Co-site leader of Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre-Duke University Collaboration in Moshi, Tanzania
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  Clinical Activities

  • Inpatient pediatric infectious diseases consult service attending

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