Meredith H. Lora, MD
Dr. Meredith Lora, MD, earned her medical degree at Emory University and completed her internal medicine residency and chief residency at University of California – San Francisco in 2015. She subsequently completed a one-year fellowship in HIV medicine at the University of Southern California, where she worked as an provider for HIV positive patients in the Los Angeles County Jail. She joined Emory’s faculty in 2016 as an assistant professor in the Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics, based at Grady. She is also the Associate Clerkship Director of the Emory Internal Medicine Clerkship. Her clinical interests include the prevention and treatment of HIV and Hepatitis C in high-risk, under-served populations, as well as Latin-American health. She has a strong focus in medical education and improving diagnostic reasoning in all levels of learners.
Board Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine
Affiliations
Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: Emory University School of Medicine
- Residency: University of California San Francisco
Fellowships
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Locations and Directions
Ponce De Leon Center
Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Extended hours on Thursday
Publications
- Frequent Missed Opportunities for Earlier HIV Diagnosis in a Routine Opt-out Testing Environment in Atlanta.
Gruber SF, Schwinne M, Iytha R, Hollenberg EJ, Robichaux C, Cantos VD, Colasanti JA, Yaffee AQ, Turbow S, Leue E, Camacho-González A, Wang YF, Lora MH
Open forum infectious diseases. 2025;12(8):ofaf423.
PMID: 40874191 - Successful Integration of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment into a Primary Care Clinic at a Safety-Net Hospital.
Lom J, Aleuy L, Heiman E, Lora MH, Miller LS, Klein R
Journal of general internal medicine. 2025;
PMID: 40715962 - Missed and Delayed Diagnoses of Acute Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection in a Southern Opt-Out HIV Testing Environment Without Reflex HIV RNA Testing.
Gruber SF, Wilber EP, Smith B, Rebolledo PA, Colasanti JA, Iytha R, Schwinne M, Robichaux C, Lora MH
Open forum infectious diseases. 2025;12(1):ofae684.
PMID: 39829638 - HIV and Chagas Disease: An Evaluation of the Use of Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction to Measure Levels of Trypanosoma cruzi Parasitemia in HIV Patients in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Reimer-McAtee MJ, Mejia C, Clark T, Terle J, Pajuelo MJ, Cabeza J, Lora MH, Valencia E, Castro R, Lozano D, Bern C, Torrico F, Gilman RH
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 2021;105(3):643-650.
PMID: 34398818 - Evaluation of Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility (MODS) and the string test for rapid diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV/AIDS patients in Bolivia.
Lora MH, Reimer-McAtee MJ, Gilman RH, Lozano D, Saravia R, Pajuelo M, Bern C, Castro R, Espinoza M, Vallejo M, Solano M, Challapa R, Torrico F
BMC infectious diseases. 2015;
PMID: 26047953
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