Healthcare Professionals
Shilpa Sayana, MD,MPH
Global HIV Clinican
Shilpa Sayana, MD, MPH is an HIV specialist at AHF’s Hollywood Healthcare Center. She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. In addition to treating a panel of 300 HIV positive patients domestically, Dr. Sayana is AHF’s Global HIV Clinician. In countries such as Haiti, Nigeria and Guyana, she provides technical assistance, guidance, and clinical trainings to local partners, ensuring quality of care at AHF sites.
Born in Zambia, Dr. Sayana grew up in Botswana and came to the United States to attend college. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Religion from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1998; a Masters Degree in Public Health with a concentration in International Health from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 2000; and her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Vermont School of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont in 2004. She is currently pursing an internal medicine residency at UCLA-San Fernando Valley Program in Sylmar, California and completed an HIV/AIDS Fellowship with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Los Angeles in 2008.
Dr. Sayana has worked in Durban, South Africa conducting research on the identification of acute HIV infection using clinical evaluation tools in a cohort of HIV negative women in Kwazulu-Natal. She also provided clinical care in an antiretroviral treatment site in rural South Africa for HIV positive patients. Dr. Sayana has worked in Egypt and India also in the field of HIV care and, as an advocate for HIV/AIDS patients, aims to work where HIV medication and quality healthcare are minimal.
She has published numerous articles along with colleagues in the Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS and has presented at a variety of conferences including the XVI International AIDS Conference held in Mexico City in 2008. While attending the UCLA-San Fernando Valley Program, Dr. Sayana received the Most Humanistic Intern Award in 2004-2005 and the Most Humanistic Resident Award in both 2005-2006 and 2006-2007.
