Carol Kemper, MD
Dr. Kemper is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine, at Stanford University and the Associate Chief of Infectious Diseases at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC), which is the county hospital for Santa Clara County. Dr. Kemper has taught at SCVMC as an Attending Physician on the Infectious Disease service since 2001, and has worked in the SCVMC outpatient HIV/AIDS (PACE) Clinic since 1988.
Dr. Kemper has served as the Principal Investigator for the California Collaborative Treatment Group (CCTG) project at SCVMC since 1996. She is also on the Editorial Board of Infectious Diseases Alert and on the Board of Advisors of the Journal of American International Health Council. Dr. Kemper received her undergraduate education at the University of Minnesota where she graduated with honors (Chemical Engineering). She attended the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and once again graduated with honors. She did her residency at the Stanford University Medical Center and a postdoctoral fellowship (Infectious Diseases) at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Research Interests
CCTG is a California-based group of HIV and infectious diseases collaborators focused on HIV-related research, and are funded by the California Health Research Program (CHRP), State of California. CCTG studies have provided access to a series of diverse and interesting projects, including HIV adherence and treatment strategy studies, prophylaxis and treatment of various opportunistic infections in HIV, and viral vaccine trials. Several CCTG studies have been the basis for current treatment and prophylaxis guidelines in HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Kemper is also providing her expertise in the use of combination antiretroviral therapies, complications of HIV and its therapeutics, and medication adherence, both from a mechanistic and behavioral perspective, in collaboration with Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to study the longitudinal effects of HIV and alcohol on the brain.
