Virginia Caine
Virginia A. Caine is an American physician who is the director and chief medical officer of the Marion County Public Health Department in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is a specialist in infectious diseases and is nationally recognized for her work with AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine for the Infectious Disease Division of the Indiana University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health. Early life Caine's father was a pre-med advisor at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Caine received her bachelor's degree from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, and during her time there, she spent a summer at Harvard University School of Medicine. She attended New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, where she worked with King Holmes and graduated in 1976. Under Holmes, Caine learned about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and became interested in studying and treating sexually transmitted diseases. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati and received her infectious diseases fellowship training at the University of Washington in Seattle. Career Caine served as a research epidemiologist studying HIV/AIDS at John Hopkins in Baltimore. In 1984, she joined Indiana University