Joanna Hellmuth, MD, MHS, is an associate professor in the UCSF Department of Neurology with research interests in the mechanisms of virally-mediated cognitive disorders, including HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND) and post-COVID cognitive symptoms. She has sub-specialty training in cognitive and behavioral neurology and practices at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. Dr. Hellmuth received her bachelor's degree from the Johns Hopkins University, a master's degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and her medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She completed neurology residency at UCSF during which she spent six months in Haiti with Partners in Health working on neurologic capacity building at Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais. She joined the UCSF Memory and Aging Center for fellowship, where she spent six months in Bangkok at the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre studying the neurologic impacts of acute HIV infection. She is currently the principal investigator of the Coronavirus Neurocognitive Study.

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