McManus, Kathleen A.
Primary Appointment
Associate Professor, Medicine- Infectious Diseases and International Health
Education
- AB, Chemistry, Dartmouth College
- MD, Columbia University
- MSc, Clinical Research, University of Virginia
- Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Virginia
- Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Virginia
- Fellowship, Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia
Contact Information
PO Box 801379
MR-6
Charlottesville, VA 22908
Telephone: 434-924-2516
Email: km8jr@uvahealth.org
Research Disciplines
Infectious Diseases/Biodefense
Research Interests
HIV Care & HIV Prevention: Improving Access to Care and Viral Suppression to Help End the HIV Epidemic
Research Description
Dr. McManus is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia (UVA) in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health. She joined the UVA faculty as a physician-scientist in summer 2017 with a research award from the Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia. In August 2018, she was awarded a K08 Mentored Career Development Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study how insurance coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act affected clinical outcomes for low-income people living with HIV. Her work is now supported by an R01 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which supports an interdisciplinary team studying how AIDS Drug Assistance Programs around the nation can best help people with HIV with low incomes achieve and maintain viral suppression.
As a clinician, Dr. McManus sees patients in the UVA Ryan White HIV Clinic, serving the Northwest Virginia region, and attends on the Infectious Diseases inpatient consult team. She is the Medical Director and Principal Investigator of the UVA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP).
Dr. McManus is a member and previous co-chair of the HIV Medical Association's national Ryan White HIV Medical Providers Coalition Steering Committee. Through this position, she has the opportunity to advocate for robust support of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and to provide expertise as a clinician and a researcher on national discussions about HIV care. She also chairs the Virginia Department of Health's ADAP Advisory Committee.
Dr. McManus is dedicated to mentoring and training the next generation of physicians, researchers, and physician-scientists, especially those interested in HIV, HIV prevention, Hepatitis C, opioid use disorder and other substance use disorders, access to care, epidemiology, and data science. She is the Director of the UVA Internal Medicine Residency's HIV Primary Care Track. She has mentored students at all levels—from undergraduate through infectious diseases fellowship—on research projects, international electives, and independent-study data analyses.
In terms of her training, Dr. McManus received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Dartmouth College and her medical doctorate from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship at UVA, along with a Master of Science in Clinical Research during residency as part of the Internal Medicine residency's Clinical Investigator track. During her Infectious Diseases fellowship, she was awarded an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality F32 award to support her research on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on HIV outcomes in Virginia.
Dr. McManus has also studied biomedical HIV prevention, Hepatitis C, COVID-19, and opioid use disorder among people with or at risk for HIV. Her goal is to build a vibrant, interdisciplinary team of researchers who identify and address barriers to viral suppression among people with HIV, improving individual health outcomes and advancing the nation's effort to end the HIV epidemic.