Aliza Norwood, M.D., FACP

Aliza Norwood, M.D., FACP, AAHIVS, is an associate professor in the departments of Population Health and Internal Medicine at Dell Medical School, where she is chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine. 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 Med, 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 she provided HIV primary care for trans and cis-gender women at the Women’s HIV Program at the University of California, San Francisco. 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 OpEd 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.