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Katherine Heath is a PhD candidate in
the Department
of Health Care and Epidemiology at UBC. Over the past five
years, she has worked for the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
in various roles. She completed her Masters research project through
the Centre for Excellence and is currently working on her
dissertation research in collaboration with the HIV/AIDS Drug
Treatment Program.
Kate has been involved with many of
the Centre for Excellence's cohort studies, including the Vanguard
Project and VIDUS, as well as database and clinical projects. She is
the first author of the second published Vanguard paper,
"HIV-associated risk factors among young Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal men who have sex with men," which was published
in The International Journal of STD and AIDS in September 1999.
In 1997, Kate received the New
Investigators Award from the Canadian Association for HIV Research,
for her work with VIDUS.
Kate's current research is focused on
psychosocial and clinical factors that affect clinical success of
antiretroviral drug therapy, particularly the role of drug side
effects and their impact on adherence to drug regimens. She is also
involved in a project to evaluate the use of once-a-day
antiretroviral regimens among individuals who need support in
maintaining therapy for HIV disease.
Born in Illinois, Kate has also lived
in Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, the United Kingdom and Nigeria. She
is married and has two big, dumb and drooly dogs named Gus the Good
and Benson the Bad. As well as being an avid telemark skier, sea
kayaker, canoeist, traveller and gardener, Kate enjoys injuring
herself doing home renovations.
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