Dr. Jay Franklin Dobkin, MD

Dr Jay Dobkin is the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. Dr Dobkin is the director of the AIDS program at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the principal investigator of an ongoing series of quantitative assessments of interventions to promote improved adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Dr Dobkin is also developing assessment strategies for antiretroviral treatment programs targeting injection drug users in the former Soviet Union in collaboration with several nongovernmental organizations active in these areas including the Open Society Institute (New York) and the Open Health Institute (Moscow). He serves as a consultant to the World Health Organization on care and treatment of HIV-infected injection drug users. He is involved in research examining the pathogenesis of HIV-associated bone loss in a longitudinal cohort of postmenopausal women. Dr Dobkin is also the principal investigator of several industry-sponsored studies of new …antiretroviral agents.