Amneris E. Luque, M.D.

          Dr.  Luque is Associate Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She is the Director of the Strong Memorial Hospital’s AIDS Center, a NYS AIDS Institute designated Center with a 10 county catchment area providing care for over 1,000 HIV-infected patients in upstate New York.  She also oversees the outpatient Infectious Diseases Clinic.

          Dr. Luque has been at the forefront of the HIV/AIDS epidemic since the disease was first recognized. She is former chair of the NYS Department of Health AIDS Institute’s Medical Care Criteria Committee, the committee responsible for the development, publication, dissemination and implementation of clinical practice guidelines, in collaboration with The Johns Hopkins University, Division of Infectious Diseases.

          Dr. Luque is the Clinical Research Site Leader at the University of Rochester for the NIAID/NIH-Funded AIDS Clinical Trials Group, the largest Network of expert clinical and translational investigators and therapeutic clinical trials units in the world.  In this role, she selects clinical trials for participation, monitors recruitment and retention of subjects into studies and monitors the quality assurance  program.  Within the ACTG, Dr. Luque is a member of the Women's Health Inter-network Scientific Committee (WHISC) and member of the Performance Evaluation Committee.  Main research interests include women's issues, antiretroviral therapy including study of novel agents and HIV and aging.  She is the recipient of an R01 study hearing function in HIV-infected patients.

          Since 1993, Dr Luque has been the recipient of an educational grant (the Clinical Education Initiative-CEI) from the AIDS Institute to provide education regarding prevention and management of HIV-infection to clinicians in the Finger Lakes region. She is also the director of CEI Technology Center established in 2008 under the direction of Dongwen Wang to produce enduring materials for clinician education regarding HIV-infection. She has participated in numerous educational efforts regionally and internationally.

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