Ann Khalsa, MD, MSEd, FAAFP, AAHIVM

Ann Khalsa, MD, MSEd, FAAFP, AAHIVM graduated from University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles and completed a family medicine residency at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, California. She also earned two Master of Science degrees: one in biochemistry from University of California Los Angeles and the second in Medical Education from USC.

Having pursued additional faculty leadership training, Dr. Khalsa joined the medical school faculty at USC in 1990 with multiple roles including:

• Directing the HIV clinical training program for the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) from 1990-2005
• Teaching medical students and residents
• Serving as chairperson for the first-year medical school curriculum revision

She also provided HIV clinical care at the Los Angeles County-USC Rand Schrader and Maternal Child Adolescent HIV Clinics, the USC Family Medicine Faculty Clinic, and the LA Gay and Lesbian Jeffrey Goodman HIV Clinic, while training hundreds of healthcare providers from the United States and abroad in the care of HIV disease.

From 2005-2010, Dr. Khalsa served as the medical director of the La Fe Ryan White clinic in El Paso Texas, where she provided full-time HIV clinical care while continuing her teaching activities through the Texas- Oklahoma AETC traveling throughout the United States, Latin America and Japan.

Joining District Medical Group in 2010, Dr. Khalsa has continued to provide full-time clinical care of HIV- infected patients through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program at Valleywise Community Health Center- McDowell where she also serves as the clinic medical director. She supervises a staff of nine clinical providers who together care for more than 5,200 patients. As the largest Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program provider in Arizona, the clinic conducts HIV clinical research and provides care to HIV- uninfected patients for hepatitis C, transgender care and HIV prevention. In addition, Dr. Khalsa directs the anal cancer screening and treatment program at the clinic and continues to lecture nationwide on HIV treatment and prevention.

Outside of work, she has been married for more than 30 years with three adult children, is a volunteer gardener at the Phoenix Japanese Friendship Garden and serves on the boards of directors for the Phoenix Bonsai Society and the Sonoran Suiseki Association.