Amy Justice, MD, PhD

Dr. Justice is a Clinical Epidemiologist who has developed multiple large national cohorts based on data from the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (VA) Electronic Medical Record enhanced with National Death Index and CMS data, patient completed surveys, DNA and tissue repositories, and stored pathology samples. The oldest and best known of her projects is the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS). VACS is an ongoing, longitudinal study of >170,000 United States veterans with and without HIV infection continuously funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1996. She has developed and validated widely used indices including a prognostic index, the VACS Index, and a patient reported symptom index, the HIV Symptom Index. She has published over 600 peer reviewed manuscripts, and has presented work at the United Nations, The International AIDS Society, The Royal Medical College in London, the White House, and Congress. She is a member of the International Advisory Boards of Lancet HIV and Journal of the International AIDS Society. In 2022, she received The William S. Middleton Award, the highest honor awarded annually by the Medical Health Broad Portfolio to senior VA biomedical research scientists for having achieved international acclaim for research accomplishments in areas of prime importance to VA's research mission. In 2025, she received The John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research from the national Society of General Internal Medicine for conducting innovative research that has changed how we care for patients, conduct research, or educate students.