Faculty & Staff
Cara C. Wilson, MD - Associate Professor of Medicine
Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Allergy & Clinical Immunology
4200 East Ninth Ave, B164
Denver, CO 80262
Phone: (303) 315 6659
Fax: (303) 315 1043
Cara.Wilson@uchsc.edu
- Education:
- 1980-84 BS Duke University
- 1984-88 MD University of Virginia School of Medicine
- 1988-89 Intern (Internal Medicine) Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- 1989-91 Resident (Internal Medicine) Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- 1991-92 Fellow (Infectious Diseases) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- 1992-95 Research Fellow (Infectious Diseases) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Board Certification:
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease Subspecialty
- Areas of Clinical Interest:
- HIV/AIDs, general infectious diseases
- Clinic Location: (eff. May 4, 2007)
- Infectious Disease Group Practice and Internationl Travelers Service
Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion, 7th Floor
1635 N. Ursula Street
Aurora, CO 80045 - Clinic Mailing Address: (eff. May 4, 2007)
- Infectious Disease Group Practice and Internationl Travelers Service
PO Box 6510
Mail Stop B-163
Aurora, CO 80045 - Clinic Days:
- Wednesday afternoons
- Appointment Contact: (eff. May 4, 2007)
- 720-848-0191
720-848-0165 International Travelers Service
- Research Interests:
- Cellular immune response to HIV-1 and correlates of immune protection in early and chronic HIV-1 infection
- Role of dendritic cells in HIV-1 immunopathogenesis
- Development of novel prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for HIV-1 infection
- Immune reconstitution of HIV-1 infection
- Research Team:
- Stephanie Dillon, PhD
- Rawleigh Howe, MD, PhD
- Lisa Rogers, PRA
- Laura Ingoldby, PRA
- Recent Publications:
- Brent Palmer, Eli Boritz, and Cara Wilson. Effects of sustained HIV-1 plasma viremia on HIV-1-specific CD4+ T cell maturation and function. J Immunology 2004, 172: 3337-3347.
- Denise M. McKinney, Rhonda Skvoretz, Brian D. Livingston, Cara C. Wilson, Michelle Anders, Robert W. Chesnut, Alessandro Sette and Mark J. Newman. Recognition of variant HIV-1 epitopes from diverse viral subtypes by vaccine-induced CTL. J. Immunology 2004;173(3):1941-50.
- Eli Boritz, Brent E. Palmer, and Cara C. Wilson. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-specific CD4+ T Cells that Proliferate In Vitro Detected from Most Viremic Subjects and Associated with Lower Plasma HIV-1 Loads. J. Virology 2004, Nov;78(22):12638-46.
- Connick E, MaWhinney S, Wilson CC, Campbell TB. Challenges in the study of patients with HIV type 1 seroconversion. Clin Infect Dis. 2005 May 1;40(9):1355-7.
- McCarter MD, Clarke J, Richter D, Wilson CC. Melanoma skews dendritic cells to facilitate a T helper 2 profile. Surgery. 2005, 138:321-8.
- Brent E. Palmer, Naomi Blyveis, Andrew P. Fontenot, and Cara C. Wilson. Functional and phenotypic characterization of CD57+ T cells and their association with HIV-1-induced T cell dysfunction. J Immunol. 2005, 175(12):8415-23.
- John R. Koeppe, Thomas P. Campbell, Richard Rapaport, and Cara C. Wilson. HIV-1 specific CD4+ T cell responses are not associated with significant viral epitope variation in persons with persistent plasma viremia. J AIDS. 2006 41(2):140-8.
- Michelle A. Barron, Naomi Blyveis, Samuel C. Pan, and Cara C. Wilson. Human Dendritic Cell Interactions with Whole Recombinant Yeast: Implications for HIV-1 Vaccine Development. J Clin Immunology. 2006, May 13.
- Eli Boritz, Eric L. Rapaport, Thomas P. Campbell, John R. Koeppe, and Cara C. Wilson. CD4+ T Cell Targeting of HIV-1 Peptide Sequences Present In Vivo during Chronic, Progressive HIV-1 Disease. Virology 2006, Dec. 12.
- Hongwei Jia, Jinfen Li, Naomi Blyveis, Cara Wilson, and Salvatore Butera. Detection of a natural released form of DC-SIGN in human dendritic cell cultures. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Michelle D'Souza, Andrew P. Fontenot, Doug G. Mack, Catherine Lozupone, Stephanie Dillon, Amie Meditz, Cara C. Wilson, Elizabeth Connick, Brent E. Palmer. PD-1 Expression on HIV-specific CD4+ T Cells is Driven by HIV Replication. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Nancy C Connolly, Theresa L. Whiteside, Cara Wilson, Venkatswarlu Kondragunta, Charles R. Rinaldo, Sharon A. Riddler. Therapeutic Immunization with HIV-1 Peptide-Loaded Dendritic Cells is Safe and Immunogenic in HIV-1-Infected Individuals. Manuscript submitted for publication.
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