Felicia Chow, MD
Associate Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

She directs the UCSF Neuro-Infectious Diseases Clinic on the Parnassus campus and also sees patients at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Chow has an active clinical research program focused on the epidemiology and pathogenesis of neurological complications of infections (e.g., cerebrovascular disease in HIV), with the goal of developing and implementing diagnostic tools and interventions to improve the outcomes of patients with neuro-infectious diseases worldwide. In addition, she is involved in global health education and mentorship for neurology trainees interested in the field of global health, coordinating international experiences for residents and supporting the development of their scholarly projects.

Dr. Chow earned her undergraduate degree from Columbia University and MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed an internship in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital followed by a residency in neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was selected to serve as chief resident. She completed fellowship training in neuro-infectious diseases and HIV neurology and earned an MAS in clinical research from UCSF. Dr. Chow is an Associate Professor of Neurology and has a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Neurological Association, Infectious Diseases Society of America and HIV Medicine Association.

• Psychological stress is associated with arterial inflammation in people living with treated HIV infection.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2023 Chow FC, Mundada NS, Abohashem S, La Joie R, Iaccarino L, Arechiga VM, Swaminathan S, Rabinovici GD, Epel ES, Tawakol A, Hsue PY
• Consensus Competencies for Postgraduate Fellowship Training in Global Neurology.
  Neurology 2023 Schiess N, Kulo V, Anand P, Bearden DR, Berkowitz AL, Birbeck GL, Cervantes-Arslanian A, Chan P, Chishimba LC, Chow FC, Elicer I, Fleury A, Kinikar A, Kvalsund M, Mateen FJ, Mbonde AA, Meyer AL, O'…
• Cognitive Health in Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: The Impact of Early Treatment, Comorbidities, and Aging.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2023 Aung HL, Alagaratnam J, Chan P, Chow FC, Joska J, Falutz J, Letendre SL, Lin W, Muñoz-Moreno JA, Cinque P, Taylor J, Brew B, Winston A
• Brief Report: Sex Differences in the Association Between Cerebrovascular Function and Cognitive Health in People Living With HIV in Urban China.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2023 Chow FC, Zhao F, He Y, Song X, Zhang J, Ao D, Wu Y, Hou B, Sorond FA, Ances BM, Letendre S, Heaton RK, Shi C, Feng F, Zhu Y, Wang H, Li T
• Dual ankyrinG and subpial autoantibodies in a man with well-controlled HIV infection with steroid-responsive meningoencephalitis: A case report.
  Frontiers in neurology 2023 Bartley CM, Ngo TT, Cadwell CR, Harroud A, Schubert RD, Alvarenga BD, Hawes IA, Zorn KC, Hunyh T, Teliska LH, Kung AF, Shah S, Gelfand JM, Chow FC, Rasband MN, Dubey D, Pittock SJ, DeRisi JL, Wilson …
• Glucocorticoid Receptor Function and Cognitive Performance in Women With HIV.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2022 Rubin LH, Bekhbat M, Turkson S, Mehta CC, Maki PM, Anastos K, Gustafson D, Spence AB, Milam J, Chow FC, Weber K, Springer G, Gange SJ, Neigh GN
• Plasma Markers of Neurologic Injury and Inflammation in People With Self-Reported Neurologic Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
  Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation 2022 Peluso MJ, Sans HM, Forman CA, Nylander AN, Ho HE, Lu S, Goldberg SA, Hoh R, Tai V, Munter SE, Chenna A, Yee BC, Winslow JW, Petropoulos CJ, Martin JN, Kelly JD, Durstenfeld MS, Hsue PY, Hunt PW, …
• Prevalence and Characteristics of HIV-Associated Stroke in a Tertiary Hospital Setting in South Africa.
  Neurology 2022 Corbett C, Brey N, Pitcher RD, O'Hagan S, Esterhuizen TM, Chow FC, Decloedt EH
• A comprehensive analysis of stroke risk factors by HIV serostatus in Uganda: Implications for stroke prevention in sub-Saharan Africa (P1-1.Virtual).
  Neurology 2022 Amir Mbonde, Jonathan Chang, Kisekka Musubire, Samson Okello, Adrian Kayanja, Acan Moses, Jacob Nkwanga, Andrew Katende, Felicia Chow, Deanna Saylor, Cumara O'Carroll, Mark Siedner
• An Analysis of Stroke Risk Factors by HIV Serostatus in Uganda: Implications for Stroke Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2022 Mbonde AA, Chang J, Musubire A, Okello S, Kayanja A, Acan M, Nkwanga J, Katende A, Chow FC, Saylor D, O'Carroll C, Siedner MJ
• Infectious Meningitis and Encephalitis.
  Neurologic clinics 2022 Bystritsky RJ, Chow FC
• Intracranial vascular imaging detects arterial wall abnormalities in persons with treated HIV infection.
  AIDS (London, England) 2022 Chow FC, Callen A, Arechiga V, Saloner D, Narvid J, Hsue PY
• Central Nervous System Effects of COVID-19 in People with HIV Infection.
  Current HIV/AIDS reports 2021 Peluso MJ, Hellmuth J, Chow FC
• Elevated Plasma von Willebrand Factor Levels Are Associated With Subsequent Ischemic Stroke in Persons With Treated HIV Infection.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2021 Graham SM, Nance RM, Chen J, Le J, Chung DW, Wurfel MM, Tirschwell DL, Zunt JR, Marra CM, Ho EL, Huffer A, Chow FC, Martin JN, Ryan AS, Crane HM, López JA, Liles WC
• Neurosyphilis.
  Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) 2021 Chow F
• HIV Viremia and Risk of Stroke Among People Living with HIV Who Are Using Antiretroviral Therapy.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2021 Harding BN, Avoundjian T, Heckbert SR, Whitney BM, Nance RM, Ruderman SA, Kalani R, Tirschwell DL, Ho EL, Becker KJ, Zunt J, Chow F, Huffer A, Mathews WC, Eron J, Moore RD, Marra CM, Burkholder G, …
• Types of Stroke Among People Living With HIV in the United States.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2021 Crane HM, Nance RM, Avoundjian T, Harding BN, Whitney BM, Chow FC, Becker KJ, Marra CM, Zunt JR, Ho EL, Kalani R, Huffer A, Burkholder GA, Willig AL, Moore RD, Mathews WC, Eron JJ, Napravnik S, Lober …
• Cocaine Use and White Matter Hyperintensities in Homeless and Unstably Housed Women.
  Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2021 Riley ED, Chow FC, Josephson SA, Dilworth SE, Lynch KL, Wade AN, Braun C, Hess CP
• Factors associated with worse cerebrovascular function in aging women with and at risk for HIV.
  AIDS (London, England) 2021 Chow FC, Ma Y, Manion M, Rupert A, Lambert-Messerlian G, Bushnell CD, Cedars MI, Sereti I, Sorond FA, Hsue PY, Tien PC
• Persistent COVID-19-associated neurocognitive symptoms in non-hospitalized patients.
  Journal of neurovirology 2021 Hellmuth J, Barnett TA, Asken BM, Kelly JD, Torres L, Stephens ML, Greenhouse B, Martin JN, Chow FC, Deeks SG, Greene M, Miller BL, Annan W, Henrich TJ, Peluso MJ
• Baseline 10-Year Cardiovascular Risk Scores Predict Cognitive Function in Older Persons, and Particularly Women, Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2020 Chow FC, Lyass A, Mahoney TF, Massaro JM, Triant VA, Wu K, Berzins B, Robertson K, Ellis RJ, Tassiopoulos K, Taiwo B, D'Agostino RB
• Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for the Diagnosis of Tuberculous Meningitis: A Small Step Forward.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2020 Donovan J, Cresswell FV, Thuong NTT, Boulware DR, Thwaites GE, Bahr NC, Tuberculous Meningitis International Research Consortium
• The regional pattern of abnormal cerebrovascular reactivity in HIV-infected, virally suppressed women.
  Journal of neurovirology 2020 Callen AL, Dupont SM, Pyne J, Talbott J, Tien P, Calabrese E, Saloner D, Chow FC, Narvid J
• A rare case of HIV CNS escape in a patient previously considered a viral controller.
  International journal of STD & AIDS 2020 Magid-Bernstein J, Guo CY, Chow FC, Thakur KT
• Prevention of stroke in people living with HIV.
  Progress in cardiovascular diseases 2020 Nguyen I, Kim AS, Chow FC
• Standardized approaches for clinical sampling and endpoint ascertainment in tuberculous meningitis studies.
  Wellcome open research 2019 Rohlwink UK, Chow FC, Wasserman S, Dian S, Lai RP, Chaidir L, Hamers RL, Wilkinson RJ, Boulware DR, Cresswell FV, van Laarhoven A, Tuberculous Meningitis International Research Consortium
• Tuberculous meningitis: new tools and new approaches required.
  Wellcome open research 2019 Seddon JA, Thwaites GE, Tuberculous Meningitis International Research Consortium
• Neurocognitive and functional impairment in adult and paediatric tuberculous meningitis.
  Wellcome open research 2019 Davis AG, Nightingale S, Springer PE, Solomons R, Arenivas A, Wilkinson RJ, Anderson ST, Chow FC, Tuberculous Meningitis International Research Consortium
• Management of intracranial tuberculous mass lesions: how long should we treat for?
  Wellcome open research 2019 Marais S, Van Toorn R, Chow FC, Manesh A, Siddiqi OK, Figaji A, Schoeman JF, Meintjes G, Tuberculous Meningitis International Research Consortium
• Association Between Bilirubin, Atazanavir, and Cardiovascular Disease Events Among People Living With HIV Across the United States.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2019 Crane HM, Nance RM, Heckbert SR, Ritchings C, Rosenblatt L, Budoff M, Wood BR, Tirschwell DL, Kim HN, Mathews WC, Geng E, Moore RD, Hunt PW, Eron JJ, Burkholder GA, Drozd DR, Chow FC, Becker KJ, Zunt …
• Building a neuroinfectious disease consensus curriculum.
  Neurology 2019 Venkatesan A, Chow FC, Aksamit A, Bartt R, Bleck TP, Jay C, Pastula DM, Roos KL, Rumbaugh J, Saylor D, Cho TA
• Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Meningitis and Encephalitis.
  The New England journal of medicine 2019 Wilson MR, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Arevalo S, Yu G, Neuhaus J, Federman S, Stryke D, Briggs B, Langelier C, Berger A, Douglas V, Josephson SA, Chow FC, Fulton BD, DeRisi JL, Gelfand JM, Naccache SN, …
• Global Teleneurology Service: First Insights (P2.6-045).
  Neurology 2019 Riley Bove, Jalayne Arias, Andrew Barnecut, Linda Branagan, Felicia Chow, Jeffrey Gelfand, S. Andrew Josephson, Maya Katz, Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, Erica Schleimer, Nilika Singhal, Michael Wilson, …
• Physical Activity Is Associated With Lower Odds of Cognitive Impairment in Women but Not Men Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2019 Chow FC, Makanjuola A, Wu K, Berzins B, Kim KA, Ogunniyi A, Ellis RJ, Robertson K, Tassiopoulos K, Taiwo BO
• Stroke in HIV.
  The Canadian journal of cardiology 2018 Bogorodskaya M, Chow FC, Triant VA
• Validation of the Intracerebral Hemorrhage Score in Uganda.
  Stroke 2018 Abdallah A, Chang JL, O'Carroll CB, Okello S, Olum S, Acan M, Aden AA, Chow FC, Siedner MJ
• Cerebral Vasoreactivity Evaluated by the Breath-Holding Challenge Correlates With Performance on a Cognitive Screening Test in Persons Living With Treated HIV Infection in China.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2018 Chow FC, Wang H, Li Y, Mehta N, Hu Y, Han Y, Xie J, Lu W, Xu W, Li T
• Brain and Spinal Epidural Abscess.
  Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) 2018 Chow F
• Detection of (1,3)-β-d-Glucan in Cerebrospinal Fluid in Histoplasma Meningitis.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2018 Myint T, Chow FC, Bloch KC, Raymond-Guillen L, Davis TE, Wright PW, Woc-Colburn L, Khairy RN, Street AC, Yamamoto T, Albers A, Wheat LJ, Hage CA
• Brain MRI Features of CSF Human Immunodeficiency Virus Escape.
  Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 2018 Narvid J, Callen A, Talbott J, Uzelac A, Dupont SM, Chow F, Price RW, Rehani B
• Chronic Meningitis Investigated via Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing.
  JAMA neurology 2018 Wilson MR, O'Donovan BD, Gelfand JM, Sample HA, Chow FC, Betjemann JP, Shah MP, Richie MB, Gorman MP, Hajj-Ali RA, Calabrese LH, Zorn KC, Chow ED, Greenlee JE, Blum JH, Green G, Khan LM, Banerji D, …
• Stroke incidence is highest in women and non-Hispanic blacks living with HIV in the AIDS Clinical Trials Group Longitudinal Linked Randomized Trials cohort.
  AIDS 2018 Felicia C. Chow, Michael R. Wilson, Kunling Wu, Ronald J. Ellis, Ronald J. Bosch, Benjamin P. Linas
• Stroke in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-infected Individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A Systematic Review.
  Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2018 Abdallah A, Chang JL, O'Carroll CB, Musubire A, Chow FC, Wilson AL, Siedner MJ
• Improvement in Diagnosis of Histoplasma Meningitis by Combined Testing for Histoplasma Antigen and Immunoglobulin G and Immunoglobulin M Anti-Histoplasma Antibody in Cerebrospinal Fluid.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2018 Bloch KC, Myint T, Raymond-Guillen L, Hage CA, Davis TE, Wright PW, Chow FC, Woc-Colburn L, Khairy RN, Street AC, Yamamoto T, Albers A, Wheat LJ
• Elevated ischemic stroke risk among women living with HIV infection.
  AIDS (London, England) 2018 Chow FC, Regan S, Zanni MV, Looby SE, Bushnell CD, Meigs JB, Grinspoon SK, Feske SK, Triant VA
• Pleocytosis is not fully responsible for low CSF glucose in meningitis.
  Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation 2017 Baud MO, Vitt JR, Robbins NM, Wabl R, Wilson MR, Chow FC, Gelfand JM, Josephson SA, Miller S
• Sex Matters in Neuroinfectious Diseases.
  Seminars in neurology 2017 Chow FC
• Central Nervous System Infections Associated with Immunosuppressive Therapy for Rheumatic Disease.
  Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America 2017 Bradshaw MJ, Cho TA, Chow FC
• Incidence of Stroke in the US Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) Cohort (S51.008).
  Neurology 2017 David Tirschwell, Felicia Chow, Kyra Becker, Christina Marra, Joseph Zunt, Emily Ho, Rizwan Kalani, Andrew Huffer, Robin Nance, Jessica Williams-Nguyen, Greer Burkholder, Richard Moore, William …
• Greater Risk of Stroke of Undetermined Etiology in a Contemporary HIV-Infected Cohort Compared with Uninfected Individuals.
  Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2017 Chow FC, Price RW, Hsue PY, Kim AS
• Relationship Between HIV Infection, Antiretroviral Therapy, Inflammatory Markers, and Cerebrovascular Endothelial Function Among Adults in Urban China.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2017 Chow FC, Li Y, Hu Y, Chan J, Wang H, Xu W, Price RW, Sorond FA, Li T
• Neurologic Complications in Treated HIV-1 Infection.
  Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2016 Bhatia NS, Chow FC
• Identification of cellular targets of a series of boron heterocycles using TIPA II-A sensitive target identification platform.
  Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 2016 Ward MS, Silva I, Martinez W, Jefferson J, Rahman S, Garcia JM, Kanichar D, Roppiyakuda L, Kosmowska E, Faust MA, Tran KP, Chow F, Buglo E, Zhou F, Groziak MP, Xu HH
• The Upside of Bias: A Case of Chronic Meningitis Due to Sporothrix Schenckii in an Immunocompetent Host.
  The Neurohospitalist 2016 Hessler C, Kauffman CA, Chow FC
• Cerebral vasoreactivity is impaired in treated, virally suppressed HIV-infected individuals.
  AIDS (London, England) 2016 Chow FC, Boscardin WJ, Mills C, Ko N, Carroll C, Price RW, Deeks S, Sorond FA, Hsue PY
• Endothelial function and CNS measures in primary HIV infection pre-and post early ART (P2.314).
  Neurology 2015 Sebastian Urday, Zaina Zayyad, Julia Peterson, Felicia Chow, Kevin Robertson, Richard Price, Priscilla Hsue, Serena Spudich
• Multicenter cohort study of diabetes mellitus and impaired fasting glucose in HIV-infected patients in China.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2015 Zhang C, Chow FC, Han Y, Xie J, Qiu Z, Guo F, Li Y, Wang H, Li T
• Use of clinical and neuroimaging characteristics to distinguish temporal lobe herpes simplex encephalitis from its mimics.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2015 Chow FC, Glaser CA, Sheriff H, Xia D, Messenger S, Whitley R, Venkatesan A
• Opinion and special articles: An interdisciplinary neuroinfectious diseases clinic to improve patient care and training.
  Neurology 2015 Chow FC, Schwartz BS, Josephson SA
• Effect of CD4+ cell count and viral suppression on risk of ischemic stroke in HIV infection.
  AIDS (London, England) 2014 Chow FC, Bacchetti P, Kim AS, Price RW, Hsue PY
• Elevated rates of intracerebral hemorrhage in individuals from a US clinical care HIV cohort.
  Neurology 2014 Chow FC, He W, Bacchetti P, Regan S, Feske SK, Meigs JB, Grinspoon SK, Triant VA
• Emerging and reemerging neurologic infections.
  The Neurohospitalist 2014 Chow FC, Glaser CA
• HIV infection and incidence of ischemic stroke.
  AIDS (London, England) 2014 Marcus JL, Leyden WA, Chao CR, Chow FC, Horberg MA, Hurley LB, Klein DB, Quesenberry CP, Towner WJ, Silverberg MJ
• HIV infection, vascular disease, and stroke.
  Seminars in neurology 2014 Chow FC
• The Risk of Large-Artery Atherosclerotic Stroke is Proportionally Greater than Cardioembolic Stroke in HIV-Infected Individuals Compared to HIV-Uninfected Controls (I10-1.003).
  Neurology 2014 Felicia Chow, Richard Price, Priscilla Hsue, Anthony Kim
• The Risk of Large-Artery Atherosclerotic Stroke is Proportionally Greater than Cardioembolic Stroke in HIV-Infected Individuals Compared to HIV-Uninfected Controls (P4.304).
  Neurology 2014 Felicia Chow, Richard Price, Priscilla Hsue, Anthony Kim
• Successful medical management of a Nocardia farcinica multiloculated pontine abscess.
  BMJ case reports 2013 Chow FC, Marson A, Liu C
• Incidence Rates of Intracerebral Hemorrhage Are Increased in Young and Female HIV-Infected Individuals (S38.004).
  Neurology 2013 Felicia Chow, Susan Regan, Wei He, Steven Feske, James Meigs, Steven Grinspoon, Virginia Triant
• Comparison of ischemic stroke incidence in HIV-infected and non-HIV-infected patients in a US health care system.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2012 Chow FC, Regan S, Feske S, Meigs JB, Grinspoon SK, Triant VA
• Cerebrovascular disease in central nervous system infections.
  Seminars in neurology 2011 Chow FC, Marra CM, Cho TA
• Outcome in patients with H1N1 influenza and cerebrovascular injury treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
  Neurocritical care 2011 Chow FC, Edlow BL, Frosch MP, Copen WA, Greer DM
• National outbreak of Acanthamoeba keratitis associated with use of a contact lens solution, United States.
  Emerging infectious diseases 2009 Verani JR, Lorick SA, Yoder JS, Beach MJ, Braden CR, Roberts JM, Conover CS, Chen S, McConnell KA, Chang DC, Park BJ, Jones DB, Visvesvara GS, Roy SL, AcanthamoebaKeratitis Investigation Team
• Burden of neuroinfectious diseases on the neurology service in a tertiary care center.
  Neurology 2008 Tan K, Patel S, Gandhi N, Chow F, Rumbaugh J, Nath A
• La cuerda dulce--a tolerability and acceptability study of a novel approach to specimen collection for diagnosis of paediatric pulmonary tuberculosis.
  BMC infectious diseases 2006 Chow F, Espiritu N, Gilman RH, Gutierrez R, Lopez S, Escombe AR, Evans CA, Moore DA