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Aliza Norwood

University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

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University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

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Aliza Norwood, MD, FACP is an assistant professor in the Departments of Population Health and Internal Medicine at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, where she is Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and co-director of the Primary Care, Family and Community medicine clerkship.  She is also the medical director at Vivent Health in Austin, a patient-centered medical home that provides HIV prevention services including PrEP and PEP, primary care for people living with HIV, and gender-affirming care.  

Prior to joining Dell Medical School, Dr. Norwood was the clinical operations director at Bridge HIV in San Francisco, a clinical trial site for international HIV vaccine and HIV prevention research studies, and provided HIV primary care for trans and cis-gender women at the Women’s HIV Program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).  Dr. Norwood attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio and trained in primary care and internal medicine at UCSF. She is board certified in internal medicine and has an HIV specialist certification from the American Academy of HIV Medicine. She is a graduate of the Op Ed Fellowship and has published in multiple nationally distributed papers with a focus on advocacy for transgender people and communities. Her interests include HIV primary care, gender-affirming care, medical education, and health policy.