Donna Futterman, MD is the Director of the Adolescent AIDS Program, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, New York where she has worked since 1989. Dr. Futterman is also a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The Adolescent AIDS Program is one of the nation’s leading programs providing comprehensive care for HIV seropositive and at-risk youth. The program has developed an innovative, multi-city social marketing program “Gettin’ Busy?” promoting HIV testing to youth.

Dr. Futterman has published more than 50 articles and chapters on the care of HIV-infected and at-risk youth and an award winning book entitled: Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling. Dr. Futterman has served as a national leader, chairing the NIH-funded Adolescent Medicine HIV/AIDS Research Network and the Adolescent Committee of the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group. Dr. Futterman currently serves on the Committee on Pediatric AIDS of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the HRSA/CDC AIDS Advisory Council. She is a Board member of: Life Beat - The Music Industry Fights AIDS; the AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families; A Better Bronx for Youth Consortium, as well as a South African program: Mothers to Mothers-to-be.

In 2001, Dr. Futterman spent a six month sabbatical in Cape Town, South Africa working with the provincial health ministry on their AIDS response and at the University of Cape Town. Articles quoting Dr. Futterman have appeared in the New York Times, Daily News, Washington Post, Seventeen Magazine, the Village Voice and the Advocate.

She has appeared on numerous news broadcasts including: Good Morning America, CNN, PBS, MTV, New York One, Bronx Net, and the Montel Williams Show. Dr. Futterman earned her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University and her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

She completed her pediatric residency in the Department of Pediatrics and the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. She had additional training as a fellow in Immunology/Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital AIDS Program of the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey.