Valerie Wojna
Puerto Rican neurologist
Valerie E. Wojna Muñiz is a Puerto Rican neurologist and professor of neurology at University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus.
Education
Wojna graduated from University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine (UPR) in 1984. At UPR, she completed an internship in internal medicine (1985), a residency in neurology (1988), and a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology (1990).
Career
Wojna is a professor of neurology at the University of Puerto Rico, where she researches neurologic disorders, insulin resistance, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND). With immunologist Loyda M. Meléndez, Wojna used proteomics to research the causes of HAND.
Wojna has also combined some of her interests; for example with collaborators she has investigated insulin resistance in HIV patients, and she is part of a study that looks for a "comparison between the cognitive damage caused by the virus between women and men in Puerto Rico."
Her research has documented the neurocognitive damage resulting from chronic infections traced to HIV in Puerto Rican women, and the local scientific community has collaborated with researchers at the University of Hawaii looking for effective new drugs to help patients."The scientific mission of these laboratories led by Dr. Wojna is to provide a new medical alternative that avoids the effects of chronic infection on the neurocognitive health of this population.In addition to preventing chronic infections that can impact the neurocognitive health of Puerto Rican women, Wojna has also researched the impact of sex hormones and oxidative stress.
In 2001, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.
Selected publications
Wojna, V., Skolasky, R. L., Hechavarría, R., Mayo, R., Selnes, O., McArthur, J. C., ... & Nath, A. (2006). Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus-associated cognitive impairment in a group of Hispanic women at risk for neurological impairment.
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