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Elijah Paintsil, MD, FAAP

Associate Research Scientist

Pediatric Specialty Infectious Diseases Email   elijah.paintsil@yale.edu Phone   (203) 785-4758 Fax   (203) 785-6961 Office Address   Department of Pediatrics Yale School of Medicine P.O. Box 208064 New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8064   Download CV

Clinical Interests: Pediatric infectious diseases; tropical medicine and pediatric HIV/AIDS with special interest in mangement of multi-drug resistant HIV infection; prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and antiretroviral therapy in a resource limited setting.

Research Interests: Fitness of HIV drug resistant mutants and the evolution of HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitor resistance; Molecular epidemiology of HIV transmission among drug users.

Board Certification

• American Board of Pediatrics, 2002
• American Board of Pediatrics, sub-board of Infectious Diseases, 2005

Education

• MB.ChB. (M.D.), University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana, 1986-92

Training

Intern
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana, 1993-94

Intern
Department of Pediatrics, Lincoln Medical Center, Bronx, NY, 1999-00

Resident
Department of Pediatrics, Lincoln Medical Center, Bronx, NY, 2000-02

Fellow
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 2002-05

Prior Academic Positions

Medical Officer
Battor Catholic Hospital, Ghana, 1994-97

Medical Director
TB and STDs/HIV Service, Battor Catholic Hospital, Ghana, 1995-97

Research Assistant
Department of Pathology, Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, 1998-99

House Physician
Department of Pediatrics, The Stamford Hospital, Stamford, CT, 2003-05