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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2018 - ACM Gordon Bell Prize For Attacking the Opioid Epidemic: Determining the Epistatic and Pleiotropic Genetic Architectures for Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Amy C. Justice is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on infectious diseases, epidemiology, emergency medicine, genetics, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics related to HIV/AIDS research and interventions, including HIV-related health complications and treatments. Their research also covers alcohol consumption and its health effects, HIV, drug use and sexual risk, genetic associations and epidemiology, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, and liver disease diagnosis and treatment.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis of problematic alcohol use in 435,563 individuals yields insights into biology and relationships with other traits, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • A mechanistic model and therapeutic interventions for COVID-19 involving a RAS-mediated bradykinin storm, 2020, eLife
  • Life expectancy after 2015 of adults with HIV on long-term antiretroviral therapy in Europe and North America: a collaborative analysis of cohort studies, 2023, The Lancet HIV
  • Patterns of COVID-19 testing and mortality by race and ethnicity among United States veterans: A nationwide cohort study, 2020, PLoS Medicine
  • Epidemiology of HIV in the USA: epidemic burden, inequities, contexts, and responses, 2021, The Lancet

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Christopher T. Rentsch
  • Vincent C. Marconi
  • Michael J. Silverberg
  • Richard D. Moore
  • Henry R. Kranzler

Publication venues where they have contributed notably include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • JAMA Network Open
  • AIDS and Behavior
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Amy C. Justice has received the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2018 for work titled "Attacking the Opioid Epidemic: Determining the Epistatic and Pleiotropic Genetic Architectures for Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction." They are also recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Prognosis of HIV-1-infected patients starting highly active antiretroviral therapy: a collaborative analysis of prospective studies.

    Matthias Egger;Margaret May;Geneviève Chene;Andrew N. Phillips

  • Life expectancy of individuals on combination antiretroviral therapy in high-income countries: a collaborative analysis of 14 cohort studies

    R Hogg;V Lima;J Sterne;S Grabar

  • Closing the gap: increases in life expectancy among treated HIV-positive individuals in the United States and Canada.

    Hasina Samji;Angela Cescon;Robert S. Hogg;Robert S. Hogg;Sharada P. Modur

  • Effect of early versus deferred antiretroviral therapy for HIV on survival.

    Mari M. Kitahata;Stephen J. Gange;Alison G. Abraham;Barry Merriman

  • HIV Infection and the Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Matthew S. Freiberg;Chung Chou H Chang;Lewis H. Kuller;Melissa Skanderson

  • Assessing the Generalizability of Prognostic Information

    Amy C. Justice;Kenneth E. Covinsky;Jesse A. Berlin

  • Survival of HIV-positive patients starting antiretroviral therapy between 1996 and 2013: a collaborative analysis of cohort studies

    Adam Trickey;Margaret T May;Jorg-Janne Vehreschild;Niels Obel

  • Timing of initiation of antiretroviral therapy in AIDS-free HIV-1-infected patients: a collaborative analysis of 18 HIV cohort studies.

    Jonathan A C Sterne;Margaret May;Dominique Costagliola;Frank de Wolf

  • Causes of death in HIV-1 infected patients treated with antiretroviral therapy 1996-2006: collaborative analysis of 13 HIV cohort studies

    J Gill;Margaret T May;C Lewden;M Saag

  • Workshop on HIV Infection and Aging: What Is Known and Future Research Directions

    Rita B. Effros;Courtney V. Fletcher;Kelly Gebo;Jeffrey B. Halter

  • HIV and aging: State of knowledge and areas of critical need for research. a report to the NIH office of AIDS research by the HIV and aging working group

    Kevin P. High;Mark Brennan-Ing;David B. Clifford;Mardge H. Cohen

  • Risk of Anal Cancer in HIV-Infected and HIV-Uninfected Individuals in North America

    Michael J. Silverberg;Bryan Lau;Amy C. Justice;Amy C. Justice;Eric Engels

  • The effect of combined antiretroviral therapy on the overall mortality of HIV-infected individuals

    Maile Ray;Roger Logan;Jonathan A C Sterne;Sonia Hernández-Díaz

  • Spirituality and religion in patients with HIV/AIDS.

    Sian Cotton;Christina M. Puchalski;Susan N. Sherman;Joseph M. Mrus

  • HIV infection and risk for incident pulmonary diseases in the combination antiretroviral therapy era

    Kristina Crothers;Laurence Huang;Joseph L. Goulet;Matthew Bidwell Goetz

  • Development and validation of a self-completed HIV symptom index.

    A.C Justice;A.C Justice;W Holmes;A.L Gifford;L Rabeneck

  • Increased COPD among HIV-positive compared to HIV-negative veterans.

    Kristina Crothers;Adeel A. Butt;Cynthia L. Gibert;Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas

  • Genome-wide association study of alcohol consumption and use disorder in 274,424 individuals from multiple populations

    Henry R. Kranzler;Henry R. Kranzler;Hang Zhou;Hang Zhou;Rachel L. Kember;Rachel L. Kember;Rachel Vickers Smith;Rachel Vickers Smith

  • Prognosis of HIV-1-infected patients up to 5 years after initiation of HAART: collaborative analysis of prospective studies.

    May M;Sterne Ja;Sabin C;Costagliola D

  • Do Patterns of Comorbidity Vary by HIV Status, Age, and HIV Severity?

    Joseph L. Goulet;Shawn L. Fultz;David Rimland;Adeel Butt

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas
Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas Baylor College of Medicine
David Rimland
David Rimland Emory University
David A. Fiellin
David A. Fiellin Yale University
Matthew Bidwell Goetz
Matthew Bidwell Goetz University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan A C Sterne
Jonathan A C Sterne University of Bristol
Timothy R. Sterling
Timothy R. Sterling Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Robert S. Hogg
Robert S. Hogg Simon Fraser University
Margaret T May
Margaret T May University of Bristol
Stephen Crystal
Stephen Crystal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael S. Saag
Michael S. Saag University of Alabama at Birmingham

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