Amy Justice, MD, PhD
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Biography
Dr. Justice is a Clinical Epidemiologist who has developed multiple large national cohorts based on data from the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System Electronic Medical Record enhanced with National Death Index and CMS data, patient completed surveys, DNA and tissue repositories, and stored pathology samples. She has two decades of experience in the processes required to clean, validate, and standardize raw EMR data and in its analysis using standard statistical methods, machine learning techniques, and cross cohort validations. 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 is the principal investigator of the National Cancer Institute provocative questions grant HIV and Aging Mechanisms for Hepatocellular Cancer, has published over 400 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 National Cancer Institute Ad hoc Subcommittee on HIV and AIDS Malignancy and the HIV and Aging Working Group, NIH Office of AIDS Research. She has recently joined the International Advisory Boards of Lancet HIV and Journal of the International AIDS Society.
Education & Training
- PhDWharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1996)
- MScUniversity of Pennsylvania Medical School (1994)
- MDYale University School of Medicine (1988)
- BAHarvard University (1982)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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William S. Middleton Award | Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service | 2022 |
Departments & Organizations
- Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
- Cancer Prevention and Control
- Center for Biomedical Data Science
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
- Center for Medical Informatics
- Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
- General Internal Medicine
- Health Policy & Management
- Internal Medicine
- Obesity Research Working Group
- Pain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center
- Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS)
- Virology Laboratories
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale Ventures
- Yale-Drug use, Addiction, and HIV prevention Research Scholars (DAHRS)
- Yale-UPR Integrated HIV Basic and Clinical Sciences Initiative