The Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative (PACPI) is a collaborative enterprise of public and private partners representing HIV prevention and treatment statewide.  We continue to see advances for HIV-positive women and their children.  Illinois has maintained a high proportion of pregnant women who know their HIV status at the time of delivery.  In addition, the number of HIV-infected newborns continues to be very small.  The safety net of prevention for women and their babies continues to work – prenatally, at the time of delivery and postpartum.  A tremendous amount of resources have been brought to bear on this work – from legislative effort in Springfield to the work of a labor and delivery nurse to ensure that every pregnant woman knows her status, to the enhanced case manager who follows up on a rapid HIV test with a preliminary positive result at a local hospital.

Download a copy of our 2007 Annual Report here.

Chief Executive Officer

Pat Garcia, MD, MPH, Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Executive Director

Anne Statton, BA

Executive Board

Lynne Weber, President, PAC Founding Member
Dr. Daniel Johnson, Vice President/Secretary, University of Chicago Hospitals
Simon J. Blattner III, Treasurer, Active Screw and Fastener
Debbi Klein, PAC Founding Member
David Ernesto Munar, The AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Barbara Schechtman, Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center
John Seder, Milwaukee Valve Corporation
Deane Taylor, The CORE Center

Staff

Cecilia Boyd, Development Coordinator
Gretchen Weiss, Program Coordinator

Enhanced Case Managers

Dolores Benton, BA, CADC
Gail Bronson-Redmond, BS, CADC
Leticia Maldonado
BeLinda Richardson, BA
Lucy Rios

24/7 Perinatal HIV Hotline Staff

Laurie Ayala, MPH, Co-Coordinator
Sarah Deardorff Carter, MPH, CHES, Co-Coordinator
Francesca Facco, MD, MFM Fellow
Barrett Robinson, MD, MFM Fellow
Whitney You, MD, MFM Fellow

Prenatal Class Instructors

Brenda Wolfe, RN, MSN, ACRN, APN, Mt. Sinai Hospital
Pam Haerr, RN, BS, CPNP, The CORE Center
Amy Talsky, RN, CPNP, Children’s Memorial Hospital
Rosa Camacho, RN, BSN, ACRN, University of Illinois
Shelley Scott, RD, LDN