Felicia Chow, MD

Assoc Prof of Clin Neurology
M_Neurology

My research focus is at the intersection of HIV and the brain, with a specific interest in HIV-associated cerebrovascular disease and TB meningitis. The goal of my work is to develop targetedinterventions to preserve neurological health in persons living with HIV in diverse settings. I am currently leading a phase 2 clinical trial investigating the pharmacokinetics of linezolid administered with high dose rifampin in the treatment of TB meningitis in persons living with HIV in Uganda. I am also involved in the development of an AIDS Clinical Trials Group multisite trial of high dose rifampin, high dose isoniazid, and linezolid to improve mortality and neurologic outcomes in TB meningitis, on which I serve in the role of co-chair. As a board-certified neurologist and neuro-infectious diseases subspecialist with formal fellowship training in infectious diseases, I maintain an active clinical practice in neurology and neuro-infectious diseases, attending on the neurology inpatient ward and consult service at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. I also direct the UCSF Neuro-Infectious Diseases Clinic, a clinic embedded within the Infectious Diseases Clinic on the UCSF Parnassus campus, where we care for patients with a wide variety of neurological infections. In this capacity, I provide consultation for challenging management issues that arise in cases of central nervous system TB. 

Publications

Global Equity in Neurological Practice.

Deanna Saylor, Rufus O. Akinyemi, Melody Asukile, Mashina Chomba, Mario Cornejo-Olivas, Caroline Crooms, Morenikeji A. Komolafe, Michelle Nichols, Adesola Ogunniyi, Nirali Vora, Felicia Chow

Advancing the chemotherapy of tuberculous meningitis: a consensus view.

Essential Strategies for Leveraging AI in the Global HIV Response

Wasserman S, Donovan J, Kestelyn E, Watson JA, Aarnoutse RE, Barnacle JR, Boulware DR, Chow FC, Cresswell FV, Davis AG, Dooley KE, Figaji AA, Gibb DM, Huynh J, Imran D, Marais S, Meya DB, Misra UK, Modi M, Raberahona M, Ganiem AR, Rohlwink UK, Ruslami R, Seddon JA, Skolimowska KH, Solomons RS, Stek CJ, Thuong NTT, van Crevel R, Whitaker C, Thwaites GE, Wilkinson RJ

Types of Stroke Among People Living With HIV in the United States.

PLoS pathogens

Crane HM, Nance RM, Avoundjian T, Harding BN, Whitney BM, Chow FC, Becker KJ, Marra CM, Zunt JR, Ho EL, Kalani R, Huffer A, Burkholder GA, Willig AL, Moore RD, Mathews WC, Eron JJ, Napravnik S, Lober WB, Barnes GS, McReynolds J, Feinstein MJ, Heckbert SR, Saag MS, Kitahata MM, Delaney JAC, Tirschwell DL

Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Meningitis and Encephalitis.

M_MED-CORE-PULM

Wilson MR, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Arevalo S, Yu G, Neuhaus J, Federman S, Stryke D, Briggs B, Langelier C, Berger A, Douglas V, Josephson SA, Chow FC, Fulton BD, DeRisi JL, Gelfand JM, Naccache SN, Bender J, Dien Bard J, Murkey J, Carlson M, Vespa PM, Vijayan T, Allyn PR, Campeau S, Humphries RM, Klausner JD, Ganzon CD, Memar F, Ocampo NA, Zimmermann LL, Cohen SH, Polage CR, DeBiasi RL, Haller B, Dallas R, Maron G, Hayden R, Messacar K, Dominguez SR, Miller S, Chiu CY

Global Teleneurology Service: First Insights (P2.6-045).

Riley Bove, Jalayne Arias, Andrew Barnecut, Linda Branagan, Felicia Chow, Jeffrey Gelfand, S. Andrew Josephson, Maya Katz, Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, Erica Schleimer, Nilika Singhal, Michael Wilson, Theodore Niyongabo, Aliza Norwood, Claudia Kaneza, Elizabeth Kohnen, Cathryn Christensen, Jon Van Leeuwen

Chronic Meningitis Investigated via Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing.

Wilson MR, O'Donovan BD, Gelfand JM, Sample HA, Chow FC, Betjemann JP, Shah MP, Richie MB, Gorman MP, Hajj-Ali RA, Calabrese LH, Zorn KC, Chow ED, Greenlee JE, Blum JH, Green G, Khan LM, Banerji D, Langelier C, Bryson-Cahn C, Harrington W, Lingappa JR, Shanbhag NM, Green AJ, Brew BJ, Soldatos A, Strnad L, Doernberg SB, Jay CA, Douglas V, Josephson SA, DeRisi JL