Rebecca Abelman, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Abelman is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Her research is focused on sex differences in aging-related comorbidities in people living with HIV and the role of menopause on clinical outcomes in women with HIV.

Education & Training

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• Infectious Diseases University of California San Francisco 2023
• Internal Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital 2020

Publications (16)

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Tuberculosis, PulmonaryDysentery, BacillarySex FactorsDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialSpirometryDiabetes MellitusHIV InfectionsPhylogenyLung Diseases, ObstructiveWhole Genome SequencingHIVShigella sonneiMenopauseModels, OrganizationalHealth Services Needs and Demand

• Switch to Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors during the Menopausal Transition is Associated with Accelerated Body Composition Change in Women with HIV.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2024 Abelman RA, Ma Y, Mehta CC, Yang Q, Xia F, Brock JB, Alcaide M, Sharma A, Floris-Moore M, Topper E, Weber KM, Kassaye SG, Gustafson D, Grunfeld C, Lahiri CD, Tien PC
• Lung function and health-related quality of life among adult patients following pulmonary TB treatment.
  The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2024 Zawedde J, Abelman R, Musisi E, Nyabigambo A, Sanyu I, Kaswabuli S, Byanyima P, Lewis E, Sessolo A, Lalitha R, Kiwanuka N, Crothers K, Worodria W, Davis JL, Huang L
• Association of Androgen Hormones, Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin, and the Menopausal Transition With Incident Diabetes Mellitus in Women With and Without HIV.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2024 Abelman RA, Schneider MF, Cox C, Messerlian G, Cohen M, Gustafson D, Plankey M, Sharma A, Price J, Grunfeld C, Tien PC
• Sex and HIV Differences in Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry (PRISm) Among Ugandans Postpneumonia.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2024 Abelman RA, Fitzpatrick J, Byanova KL, Zawedde J, Sanyu I, Byanyima P, Musisi E, Hsieh J, Zhang M, Branchini J, Sessolo A, Hunt PW, Lalitha R, Davis JL, Crothers K, Worodria W, Huang L
• COPD in People with HIV: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Management, and Prevention Strategies.
  International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2023 Byanova KL, Abelman R, North CM, Christenson SA, Huang L

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• Body Composition Changes Over the Menopausal Transition in Women With and Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2023 Abelman RA, Nguyen TTJ, Ma Y, Bacchetti P, Messerlian G, French AL, Sharma A, Minkoff H, Plankey M, Grunfeld C, Tien PC
• Isolated abnormal diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (iso↓DLco) is associated with increased respiratory symptom burden in people with HIV infection.
  PloS one 2023 Byanova KL, Fitzpatrick J, Jan AK, McGing M, Hartman-Filson M, Farr CK, Zhang M, Gardner K, Branchini J, Kerruish R, Bhide S, Bates A, Hsieh J, Abelman R, Hunt PW, Wang RJ, Crothers KA, Huang L
• Sex modifies the risk of HIV-associated obstructive lung disease in Ugandans postpneumonia.
  AIDS (London, England) 2023 Abelman RA, Fitzpatrick J, Zawedde J, Sanyu I, Byanyima P, Kaswabuli S, Musisi E, Hsieh J, Gardner K, Zhang M, Byanova KL, Sessolo A, Hunt PW, Lalitha R, Davis JL, Crothers K, Worodria W, Huang L
• Landscape of TB Infection and Prevention among People Living with HIV.
  Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 2022 Vasiliu A, Abelman R, Kherabi Y, Iswari Saktiawati AM, Kay A
• Deep cutaneous candidiasis of the lip in a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia.
  JAAD case reports 2022 Cortez JL, Tan SY, Abelman R, Chin-Hong P, McCalmont TH, Fox L, Haemel A
• The Reproductive Transition: Effects on Viral Replication, Immune Activation, and Metabolism in Women with HIV infection.
  Current HIV/AIDS reports 2021 Abelman R, Tien PC
• Symptom-based Screening Versus Chest Radiography for TB Child Contacts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
  The Pediatric infectious disease journal 2021 Vasiliu A, Abelman RA, Casenghi M, Cohn J, Bonnet M
• Implementation of differentiated service delivery for paediatric HIV care and treatment: opportunities, challenges and experience from seven sub-Saharan African countries.
  Family medicine and community health 2020 Abelman R, Alons C, Stockman J, Teri I, Grimsrud A, Ombija M, Makwindi C, Odionyi J, Tumbare E, Longwe B, Bonou M, Songoro J, Mugumya L, Cohn J
• Conceptualizing the Risks of Coronary Heart Disease and Heart Failure Among People Aging with HIV: Sex-Specific Considerations.
  Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine 2019 Abelman RA, Mugo BM, Zanni MV
• Use of whole genome sequencing in surveillance for antimicrobial-resistant Shigella sonnei infections acquired from domestic and international sources.
  Microbial genomics 2019 Abelman RL, M'ikanatha NM, Figler HM, Dudley EG
• Conversion of nitrite to nitric oxide at zinc via S-nitrosothiols.
  Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 2014 Cardenas AJ, Abelman R, Warren TH