Dr. Jana Dickter, MD - City of Hope - Managing Complex Infections In Difficult to Treat Cases

Dr. Jana Dickter, MD (https://www.cityofhope.org/jana-dickter) is associate clinical professor in the department of medicine, division of infectious diseases, at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is board-certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and the American Academy of HIV Medicine.

Dr. Dickter earned her undergraduate degree in cognitive sciences from the University of California, San Diego. She went on to receive her medical doctorate from Rush Medical College in Chicago. After an internal medicine residency at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Dr. Dickter began her fellowship at UCLA’s Affiliated Program in Infectious Diseases.

In her clinical work, she has focused on the management of infections in the immunosuppressed. At City of Hope, she is an on-site HIV specialist and has an interest treating people who are living with HIV and cancer. She was the principal investigator involved in presenting the case of The City of Hope patient: prolonged HIV-1 remission without antiretrovirals after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation of CCR5-delta-32 mutation donor cells for acute myelogenous leukemia. She also serves as the HIV physician for the first-in-human trial to evaluate the feasibility, safety and engraftment of zinc finger nuclease genome edited CCR5 modified CD34+ hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in HIV-1 infected patients.

Additionally, Dr. Dickter has been involved in clinical trials for evaluating certain medications for difficult-to treat infections in immunosuppressed patients. She is also involved in antimicrobial stewardship, infection control, and has published papers on aspects of patient management with antimicrobial agents. These papers have dealt with nosocomial infections, cost assessment of antimicrobial use, and unusual case reports, all intended to teach practitioners who manage these difficult to treat patients.