Donna C. Futterman MD

Dr. Donna Futterman is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Director of the Adolescent AIDS Program, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, New York. Her program is one of the nations leading programs providing comprehensive care for HIV+ and at-risk youth and has also developed an award-winning, multi-city social marketing program promoting HIV testing to youth. Dr. Futterman has published more than 50 articles and chapters on the care of HIV + and at-risk youth and a book entitled: Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling and lectures widely throughout the country and internationally. She is currently working as a consultant with the Global AIDS Program of the Centers for Disease Control on the development of international youth and HIV programs.

She 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, and has served on the HRSA/CDC AIDS Advisory Council. She currently serves on the Committee on Pediatric AIDS of the American Academy of Pediatrics and 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, she spent a six-month sabbatical in Cape Town, South Africa working with the provincial health ministry and at the University of Cape Town on their AIDS response.

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 various news broadcasts including Good Morning America, CNN, PBS, NPR, MTV, New York One, Bronx Net, and The Montel Williams Show.

Dr. Futterman earned her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University (1975), and her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1985). 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 (1988). 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 (1989).