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Ronald Lubelchek, MD

Doctor Ronald Lubelchek
Medical Director, RMR CORE Center & CCH Central Cluster HIV Services
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, RUSH Medical College
Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Education

MD, University of Illinois School of Medicine
Chief Administrative ID Fellow, Rush University Medical Center/John H. Stroger Hospital 
Infectious Diseases Fellow, Rush University Medical Center/John H. Stroger Hospital, Chicago
Internal Medicine Residency, Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis, MO
BA (Biology), Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 

 

Research Areas

The goal of Lubelchek’s research and overall professional aim is to improve the access and quality of care for people living with HIV. Much of his past research efforts have focused on improving implementation of HIV testing programs in our urban, safety-net medical system. In addition he has researched ways that health information technology can improve HIV care. He has also led an effort to use baseline HIV genotypes to assess for HIV transmission clusters from a database of over 900 baseline genotypes. Lastly, he has served as a local principal investigator on several pharmaceutical company HIV anti-retroviral clinical  trials.

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Invited Presentations

John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County Department of Medicine Grand Rounds:

1) Infectious Diseases M&M:   June 13th, 2008 – Provided update on opt-out HIV testing in the Stroger Emergency Department

2) Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds:  Nov 12th, 2010 – Presentation entitled, “A case for making HIV testing routine”

3) Infectious Diseases M&M:  June 17th, 2011 – Case and discussion illustrating pitfalls of diagnosis and management of complicated Staph aureus bacteremia

4) Infectious Diseases M&M:  April 13, 2018 – Discussion of case highlighting importance of considering risk factors for infection with multi-drug resistant organisms in patients presenting with neutropenic fever.  

Chicago D-CFAR Discussant in meeting with Jeff Crowley -Invited Guest- , President Obama’s advisor on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, August 9th, 2011 – Discussed Stroger Hospital’s campaign to make HIV testing routine throughout our health system.  

Midwest Infectious Diseases Infectious Diseases Board Review – Chicago, IL August 19th, 2011, lecture reviewing STDs

Illinois Department of Public Health Annual STD/HIV meeting – Springfield, IL, Sept. 13th, 2011 Invited lecturer on topic, “HIV testing in the Emergency Department”

CFAR/APC ECHPP National Conference – Nov. 19-20, 2012, Washington, DC Gave invited talk entitled,
“The role of academic detailing to help scale up routine HIV testing in specialty clinics”.

Second National CFAR/APC HIV Continuum of Care Working Group Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2014, Wash., DC Gave two invited talks:
1) Examining the role of HIV labs surveillance data to help track engagement in HIV care
2) Using Health Information Technology (HIT) to improve Chicago PWLHA engagement-in-care

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, invited lecture at Illinois Masonic, Aug 13, 2015 Invited presentation on HIV prevention

Association of Nurses in AIDS Care – St. Louis Chapter – Invited Speaker, presented HIV treatment as prevention talk on 6/8/16.  

Alliance Chicago Biannual Research Symposium – April 5, 2017 – Invited guest speaker 
presented on the CCHHS system of using real-time text alerts to identify and re-engage lost-to-care people living with HIV/AIDS.