Toinette Frederick, PhD

Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Part-Time)

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Toni Frederick, PhD, MSPH
Associate Professor of Research Pediatrics

Dr. Frederick received her PhD in Epidemiology from the UCLA School of Public Health in 1989. She joined the Department of Pediatrics, MCA Program in October 2004 as an Assistant Professor and has continued her liaison work with the LAC DHS HIV-Epidemiology program, the Urban Prevention Collaborative (UPC), and the HIV Prevention Planning Committee. She is currently part of the MCA Research team responsible for overseeing MCA’s data management program, analyzing data, writing papers, and interfacing with the Keck School of Medicine Information Systems. She is Principal Investigator of Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) Surveillance Monitoring for ART Toxicities Study in HIV-uninfected Children Born to HIV-infected Women (SMARTT). She is particularly interested in the prevention of perinatal HIV infection both nationally and internationally.

Awards

  • Brandeis University: Summa Cum Laude, 1974
  • Brandeis University: Dean’s List, 1972
     – 1974
  • Society for Pediatric Research: Membership, 2013

Publications

  • Activation of CD8 T cells predicts progression of HIV infection in women coinfected with hepatitis C virus. J Infect Dis. 2010 Mar 15; 201(6):823-34.. View in PubMed
  • Factors associated with prevalent hepatitis C infection among HIV-infected women with no reported history of injection drug use: the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS). AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2009 Nov; 23(11):915-23.. View in PubMed
  • Correlates of perinatal depression in HIV-infected women. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2009 Feb; 23(2):101-8.. View in PubMed
  • Epidemiology of Pneumocystis colonization in families. Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Apr 15; 46(8):1237-40.. View in PubMed
  • Evaluating the impact of hepatitis C virus (HCV) on highly active antiretroviral therapy-mediated immune responses in HCV/HIV-coinfected women: role of HCV on expression of primed/memory T cells. J Infect Dis. 2006 May 01; 193(9):1202-10.. View in PubMed
  • CD4 T-lymphocyte counts and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in pediatric HIV infection. JAMA. 1991 Apr 03; 265(13):1698-703.. View in PubMed