American pediatrician who was one of the first to identify HIV in children.
James Oleske
Alma mater
University of Detroit, New Jersey Medical School, Columbia University, Emory University School of Medicine
Scientific career
Fields
HIV/AIDS research, pediatrics
Institutions
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
External videos
“UMDNJ Legacy Dr. James Oleske, September 25, 2013, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
James M. Oleske is an American pediatrician and HIV/AIDs researcher who is the emeritus François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Professor of Pediatrics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, New Jersey. He is best known for his pioneering work in identifying HIV/AIDS as a pediatric disease,[1][2][3] and treating and researching it beginning in the 1980s.[4][5] He published one of the first articles identifying HIV/AIDS in children in JAMA in 1983 and was a co-author of one of the articles by Robert Gallo and others identifying the virus in Science in 1984.[6][7][8][9]
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^Span, Paula (June 7, 1983). "The Children of AIDS". Washington Post.
^Bayer, Ronald; Oppenheimer, Gerald M. (November 30, 2006). "Pioneers in AIDS Care — Reflections on the Epidemic's Early Years". New England Journal of Medicine. 355 (22): 2273–2275. doi:10.1056/NEJMp068202. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 17135580.
^Bayer, Ronald (2002). AIDS Doctors: Voices from the epidemic (Oxforde University Press paperback ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0195152395.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Gallo, Robert C.; Salahuddin, Syed Z.; Popovic, Mikulas; Shearer, Gene M.; Kaplan, Mark; Haynes, Barton F.; Palker, Thomas J.; Redfield, Robert; Oleske, James; Safai, Bijan; White, Gilbert; Foster, Paul; Markham, Phillip D. (May 4, 1984). "Frequent Detection and Isolation of Cytopathic Retroviruses (HTLV-III) from Patients with AIDS and at Risk for AIDS". Science. 224 (4648): 500–503. Bibcode:1984Sci...224..500G. doi:10.1126/science.6200936. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 6200936.
^MacPherson, Kitta (April 12, 1992). "AIDS researcher calls for reason, compassion in dealing with disease". The Sunday Star-Ledger. p. 57.
^Chase, Sabrina (2011). Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City: How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds. Rutgers University Press. pp. 61–89. ISBN 9780813553481.
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