Gustavo Velasquez, MD, MPH
Dr. Velásquez is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is an infectious disease physician and clinical researcher focused on tuberculosis (TB) therapeutics. Based at the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis (tb.ucsf.edu), he works with the endTB consortium (endTB.org), the SMART4TB consortium (tbcenter.jhu.edu/smart4tb), and the AIDS Clinical Trials Group on Phase 2 and Phase 3 randomized controlled trials evaluating new shortened regimens for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB. He attends on the inpatient infectious diseases/HIV consult service and outpatient HIV and TB clinics at San Francisco General Hospital.
UCSF Center for Tuberculosis Leadership & Initiatives:
Chair/Lead, UCSF CTB Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility Initiative
UC TRAC Core Management Committee Member
SMART4TB UCSF Lead, Therapeutics
BATS Rising Star 2023
BATS Planning Committee 2022
World TB Day Planning Committee 2022