Feinberg Doctor Named to Presidential AIDS Council

Feinberg Doctor Named to Presidential AIDS Council

Patricia Garcia, MD, MPH, associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Patricia Garcia, MD, MPH, associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV-AIDS.

She joins President Barack Obama’s 24-member council of HIV-AIDS experts. The council is a diverse group of researchers, service providers and community leaders from across the country.

Garcia is also director of the Perinatal HIV Program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She also chairs the board of Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative.

An estimated 1 million individuals are living with HIV in the United States, and a new HIV infection occurs every nine-and-a-half minutes in America.