Luis Manuel Felipe Gonzalez

Luis Manuel Felipe Gonzalez, MD, PhD, is a regional laboratory advisor for the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) and an associate researcher at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. As laboratory adviser, Dr. Gonzalez supports the Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia programs.

Before joining ICAP in 2004, Dr. Gonzalez worked as a medical doctor in rural Venezuela where he coordinated vaccination and epidemic control programs, as well as medical and nursing activities. He also conducted parasitological research, specifically on Chagas disease and Leishmaniosis infection. In Venezuela, Dr. Gonzalez also was the director of a private clinic focused on occupational medicine. In this role, he created an emergency room service, as well as services for X ray and scanning, surgery, laboratory, and pharmacy. He also established primary care system for the families of workers. Dr. Gonzalez has also served as an advisor to the Public Health Institute at the University Centro Occidental Lisandro Alvarado in Barquisimeto City, Venezuela, specifically focusing on the Dengue diagnostic and HIV programs.

Dr. Gonzalez earned a doctorate in molecular genetics, with a specialty in retroviruses, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His research, which has been published, focused on drug resistance mechanisms of HIV, especially in non-b subtypes.