Elvin Geng, MD

Elvin Geng is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF).  He is a physician trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases (MD, Columbia 2002) and epidemiology (MPH, Columbia 2002).   Aside from his work in San Francisco, he has worked providing clinical services, in public health programs and conducting research in China and in East Africa. 

Elvin’s work is focused on understanding effective strategies to delivery antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-infected patients within the context of economic scarcity, limited infrastructural capacity and local socio-cultural factors.  His research on these questions involves cohort-based epidemiologic studies and has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA and cited in the New York Times.  

In addition, he also maintains an interest in teaching and has won teaching awards both in the clinical setting and in the graduate training program in clinical research methods at UCSF.  He continues to work as an HIV clinician in a scale-up ART clinic in Mbarara, Uganda and in San Francisco.