Chris Behrens
About Chris Behrens
Dr. Behrens is the Medical Director of the International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine with joint appointments in the Departments of Global Health and Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington.
Dr. Behrens obtained a BA in Political Science at Stanford University and his medical degree from the University of California – San Francisco. He is board certified in Family Medicine.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Physician
Organization
- International Training & Education Center on Health - I-TECH
Work Location(s)
- United States
Chris's Communities
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Recent Contributions
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Chris Behrens started a discussion "Risk of NNRTI resistance following abrupt cessation of NNRTI-based HAART: implications for Haiti" in the Adherence & Retention community.
Greetings - the recent earthquake in Haiti will likely result in many HIV-infected patients losing access to ARVs due to migration, facility closures & stockouts, etc. The vast majority of patients on HAART in Haiti are on NNRTI-based regimens (EFV or NVP). For such patients who have to interrupt their HAART regimens for a prolonged period of time (say, one month), what is the risk that clinically significant NNRTI resistance will develop? >From my brief ...
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Chris Behrens replied to "World TB Day: What are you doing? Post your photos and news" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
I-TECH Launches tbpreventiontoolkit.org, a New Tuberculosis Prevention Website Step-by-Step Guidance to Help Facilitators Implement the “Three I’s” of TB Prevention Seattle, 24 March, 2011—On World Tuberculosis Day, 24 March, the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) is pleased to announce the launch of a new tuberculosis (TB) prevention toolkit, located online at http://www.tbpreventiontoolkit.org. The toolkit, developed in collaboration with the Curry International Tuberculosis Center at the University of California, San Francisco, is targeted ...
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Chris Behrens started a discussion "TB Infection Control document from WHO" in the TB Infection Control community.
Greetings - at the IUATLD meeting in Paris last year, a representative from the WHO (I don't know his name) mentioned a draft document being prepared by the WHO that would provide more detailed guidance on how countries/facilities might implement the measures outlined in the WHO/CDC "TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION CONTROL IN THE ERA OF EXPANDING HIV CARE AND TREATMENT: Addendum to WHO Guidelines for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in Health Care Facilities in Resource-Limited Settings, 1999". ...
Recent Recommendations
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