Dr. Maile Young Karris

Dr. Maile Young Karris (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health & Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Palliative Care at the University of California San Diego. She is a board-certified Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases physician who has been caring for persons living with HIV since 2004. Her specific clinical expertise is in the care of older adults with HIV. As such she is active in both HIV and Aging specific clinical and research organizations such as the Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally or ACTG’s HIV and Aging working group and the American Geriatrics Society’s Emerging Leaders in Aging scientific interest group. Through these roles and others, Dr. Karris fosters the performance of clinical, translational and implementation science research in HIV and advocates for early and equitable community  engagement across the research spectrum. Her overall research approach is “bedside-to-bench”. In other words, she pursues research questions that may directly address the day-to-day needs of the people she cares for. Examples of current clinical and research interests include novel approaches to managing chronic pain in older adults living with HIV, development of pragmatic approaches to caring for older adults living with HIV, loneliness, substance use,  HIV/aging stigma, and the impact of social and structural disparities of health on health.