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.

Awards

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• CFAR Early Career Excellence Award in Clinical Research, UCSF, 2024

Education & Training

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

Grants and Projects

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• The Synergistic Effects of Menopause and HIV on Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Women, NIH, 2025-2030
• Stimulant and Polysubstance use, Inflammation and Sex Effects on Myocardial Disease in HIV (SPISE), NIH, 2025-2030
• Impact of Asymptomatic CMV on Cardiovascular Event Risk in Treated HIV, NIH, 2025-2029
• The Menopausal Transition and Lung Function in Ugandan Women with HIV, Nina Ireland Program for Lung Health, 2025-2027
• SF Bay Area MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study, NIH, 2019-2026

Publications (25)

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Tuberculosis, PulmonaryDysentery, BacillarySex FactorsDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialSpirometryBody CompositionHIV InfectionsHIV Integrase InhibitorsLung Diseases, ObstructiveWhole Genome SequencingHIVShigella sonneiMenopauseModels, OrganizationalHealth Services Needs and Demand

• Predictors of Abnormal Diffusing Capacity for Carbon Monoxide in Post-Pneumonia Ugandans with and without HIV.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2025 Byanova KL, Fitzpatrick J, Zawedde J, Byanyima P, Sanyu I, Zhang MH, Branchini J, Velasquez E, Abelman R, Sessolo A, Lin J, North CM, Lalitha R, Bhakta NR, Hunt PW, Worodria W, Huang L
• Spectrum From Acute Myocardial Injury to Infarction Among People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seeking Emergency Care in the United States: Presentations, Provider Responses, and Clinical Outcomes.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2025 Abelman RA, Mugo BM, Durbin CG, Campbell S, Dutta S, McEvoy D, Lau ES, Zhao S, Stockman SL, Chu SM, Zanni MV
• Age modifies the association between sex and the plasma inflammatory proteome in treated HIV.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 2025 Abelman RA, Schnittman SR, Faraj Murad N, Olshen A, Beck-Engeser GB, Aquino N, Ambayec GC, Cachay ER, Eron JJ, Saag M, Nance RM, Delaney JA, Ruderman SA, Moore RD, Mayer KH, Jacobson JM, Crane HM, …
• Geriatric syndromes in women living with HIV.
  Current opinion in HIV and AIDS 2025 Abelman R
• Personal PM2.5 Exposure and Lung Function among Adults with and without HIV Who Have Recovered from Pneumonia in Kampala, Uganda.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2025 North CM, Sagar S, Zawedde J, Sanyu I, Byanyima P, Kaswabuli S, Mandell C, Byanova KL, Fitzpatrick J, Abelman R, Wolfson JM, Sessolo A, Lalitha R, Koutrakis P, Worodria W, Huang L

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• Menopause is associated with faster increases in insulin resistance in women with HIV.
  AIDS (London, England) 2025 Abelman RA, Ma Y, Mehta CC, Yang Q, Xia F, Brock JB, Alcaide ML, Sharma A, Floris-Moore M, Topper E, Weber KM, Kassaye SG, Gustafson D, Grunfeld C, Lahiri CD, Tien PC
• Brief Report: Sex and HIV Modify Immune Activation Biomarkers in Ugandans Post-Tuberculosis.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2025 Abelman RA, Fitzpatrick J, Zawedde J, Beck-Engeser G, Sanyu I, Marzan F, Byanyima P, Ambayec GC, Kaswabuli S, Musisi E, Sessolo A, Velasquez E, Lalitha R, Byanova KL, Aweeka FT, Deitchman AN, Lin J, …
• Moderate to Severe Impairment of DlCO and Iso↓DlCO Are Associated with All-Cause Mortality in People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2025 Zhang MH, Fitzpatrick J, Branchini J, Byanova KL, Abelman R, Feinberg A, Hunt PW, Lin J, Huang L
• Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) score accuracy among people with HIV in the multicenter CNICS cohort.
  AIDS (London, England) 2025 Durstenfeld MS, Nance RM, Jones R, Abelman R, Hoffmann AP, Burkholder G, Hsue PY, Longenecker CT, Hunt PW, Saag MS, Delaney JAC, Feinstein MJ, Crane HM, Center for AIDS Research Network of Integrated …
• 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 2025 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
• 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