Vanderbilt
professor will receive AAHIVM Emerging Leader Award

Steven Raffanti, MD, an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and chief medical officer of the Comprehensive Care Center in Nashville, will receive the American Association of HIV Medicine's 2005 Emerging Leader Award at next month's annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in San Francisco. The award cites his work in establishing the care center, Tennessee's largest outpatient HIV clinic, as well as his work in developing a statewide AIDS Centers of Excellence program, which currently cares for two thirds of the state's HIV patients. The Comprehensive Care Center in Nashville provides HIV care for more than 2,000 current patients and has cared for more than 5,000 patients since its founding in 1994.