As part of NIH-StoryCorps partnership, Raffanti discusses his work with HIV/AIDS patients
A new collaboration between StoryCorps, the NIH, and Vanderbilt is a first-of-its-kind partnership for an academic medical center, recognizing persons who enable health care work while capturing and preserving the stories of those connected with the extensive and diverse NIH community.
Stephen Raffanti, M.D., M.P.H., professor of Medicine, and Beverly Byram, M.D.N., A.D.N., assistant in Medicine. Raffanti is the medical director and Byram a nurse practitioner at the Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Center, which is a clinic for HIV/AIDS patients. They have worked together with HIV/AIDS patients since 1992, when so many patients were dying of HIV and the goal of treatment was to help them die with dignity. They discussed how working with this population has been their life’s work.