Please join CDUHR for an AIDS Seminar featuring Dr. Aaron Fox, who will deliver a presentation titled "The Bronx Transitions Clinic: Patient-Centered Medical Care for People with Criminal Justice-Involvement."
Dr. Fox will describe the Bronx Transitions Clinic, which is an innovative program providing primary care, HIV care, and opioid use disorder treatment to people with criminal justice-involvement. The presentation will highlight key factors that disrupt medical care following release from incarceration and strategies for improving linkage and retention in medical care post-release. Solitary confinement, criminal justice stigma, and other important topics will also be discussed in detail.
Aaron Fox is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. He is a primary care physician with board certification in addiction medicine and training in clinical research methods. Dr. Fox is the Co-Director of the Bronx Transitions Clinic, which provides a medical home to individuals who have recently been released from jail or prison. His research has included funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, New York State AIDS Institute, and Society of General Internal Medicine. These studies have focused on treatment of opioid use disorder, HIV, and chronic hepatitis C among formerly incarcerated individuals. Dr. Fox is working to develop behavioral interventions to complement pharmacotherapy for opioid use disorder and to improve linkage to care following release from incarceration.