Please join us for a presentation by
Dr. Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo, MS, DO
Associate Professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

HIV Across the Lifespan Scientific Working Group of the Rustbelt Center for AIDS Research 
are thrilled to host a lecture by
Dr. Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo, MS, DO
4PM ET on Tuesday, November 4, 2025
“Born Vulnerable: The Biology and Clinical Consequences of Premature Aging in Perinatal HIV”

Dr. Dirajlal-Fargo is an attending physician in infectious diseases at Lurie Children’s. She obtained her DO at the University of New England and completed a pediatrics residency at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. She spent a year working as a Pediatric AIDS Corps physician for the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative in Malawi. She also trained in Infectious Diseases at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Dirajlal-Fargo is a translational investigator, whose research portfolio focuses on complications of HIV in children and youth in the US and sub-Saharan Africa. She is the principal investigator on multiple NIH-funded studies in the United States and Africa to better understand the long-term health outcomes and chronic comorbidities associated with HIV in adults and children. She specializes in providing HIV care and treatment to infants, children, and adolescents both living with, and exposed to, HIV as well as all aspects of pediatric infectious diseases.
     
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