Hometown
Harare, Zimbabwe
Training/Education
College: BA in Biology, Bryn Mawr College
Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Internship: Montefiore
Hobbies
Volleyball, tennis, running, reading, scrabble, knitting, hiking.
My Favorite Things to Do in the Denver Area
Hiking, skiing and exploring local restaurants.
Honors and Awards
Rhodes Scholarship Finalist Pedro Arrupe S.J Scholarship For Peace, Georgetown University
Professional Organizations, Boards and Advisory Committees
Radiology Society of North America American College of Radiology
Presentations and Publications
Makurumidze G and Weinfeld J. Does community health advocate (CHA) social determinant screening improve care outcomes among African Americans with high cardiovascular risk? Georgetown Research Capstone, Washington, DC. May 2023. Cohen MAA, Pereira L, Blanch J, Makurumidze G. HIV Stigma and Discrimination: Impact on Patients, Orphans, Families, and Prevention, American Psychiatric Association; San Francisco, CA. May 2019 Agins, B., Basenero, A., Khabo, B., Neidel, J., Mutandi, G., Murungu, J., Mabuku J., Geis, M., Makurumidze, G., Bardfield, J., Ikeda, D. Improvement Collaboratives Led by Ministries of Health to Achieve Global 90-90-90 Targets. 22nd International AIDS Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2018
Makurumidze G, Solomon G, Solomon N, Bayou Y, Dako F. Cross-sectional review of US websites providing lung cancer screening recommendations following the 2021 US Preventive Services Task Force updates. Clin Imaging. 2023 Mar 30;99:1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2023.03.012. Makurumidze G, Lu C, Babagbemi K. Addressing Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening: A Review. Applied Radiology. 2022;51(6):24-28. Bourgeois, J.A., Cohen, M.A.A., Makurumidze, G. (eds) (2022). HIV Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Clinicians https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-80665-1 Makurumidze, G., Ross, J.L., Shah, R., Dacarett-Galeano, D., Artz, J., Cohen, M.A.A. (2022). HIV Stigma. In: Bourgeois, J.A., Cohen, M.A.A., Makurumidze, G. (eds) HIV Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80665-1_3 Lavakumar, M., Makurumidze, G., Bradley, M.V., Avery, A. (2022). Integrated and collaborative care. In: Bourgeois, J.A., Cohen, M.A.A., Makurumidze, G. (eds) HIV Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80665-1_19 Lyon, M.E., del Carmen, T., Makurumidze, G., Forstein, M., Wiener, L. (2022). Palliative and end-of-life care in HIV. In: Bourgeois, J.A., Cohen, M.A.A., Makurumidze, G. (eds) HIV Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80665-1_20 Gary EN, Kathuria N, Makurumidze G, Curatola A, Ramamurthi A, Bernui ME, Myles D, Yan J, Pankhong P, Muthumani K, Haddad E, Humeau L, Weiner DB, Kutzler MA. CCR10 expression is required for the adjuvant activity of the mucosal chemokine CCL28 when delivered in the context of an HIV-1 Env DNA vaccine. Vaccine. 2020 Mar 4;38(11):2626-2635. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.01.023. Epub 2020 Feb 10. PMID: 32057572. Cohen MAA, Makurumidze G, Pereira LF, Bourgeois JA, Cozza KL. HIV/AIDS psychiatry - a paradigm for HIV prevention and integrated compassionate care. World Psychiatry. 2019 Jun;18(2):240-241. doi: 10.1002/wps.20643. PMID: 31059622; PMCID: PMC6502402. Makurumidze G and Justman J. Trump's vision of defeating AIDS is achievable. New York Daily News, 2019 https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-trumps-vision-of-defeating-aids-is-achievable-20190218-story.html Cohen MAA, Makurumidze G, Alfonso CA, Tavakkoli M. HIV as the great magnifier of maladies -challenges for prevention and compassionate care. In: Kostas N. Fountoulakis and Afzal Javed, Eds. World Psychiatric Association Advances in Psychiatry, 4th Edition. Springer, 2018 Makurumidze G, Gamell A, and Letang E. AIDS orphans and other children affected by HIV. In: MA Cohen, JM Gorman, JM Jacobson, P Volberding, and SL Letendre, Eds. Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry - A Paradigm for Integrated Care, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2017 Makurumidze G. Resource appendix for persons with HIV and AIDS, their families, caregivers, clinicians, educators, and researchers. In: MA Cohen, JM Gorman, JM Jacobson, P Volberding, and SL Letendre, Eds. Comprehensive textbook of AIDS psychiatry - a paradigm for Integrated Care, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2017 Kutzler M, Kathuria N, Curatola A, Makurumidze G, et al. CCR10 expression is required for immunogenicity of a HIV-1env DNA vaccine encoding CCL28 to enhance HIV-1env-specific IgG and IgA at relevant mucosal sites (VAC7P.986). J Immunol. 2014; 192:141.31
