1. Robert James Frascino was an American physician, immunologist, and advocate for HIV-positive people.
16 Facts About Robert Frascino
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Robert Frascino was one of the first physicians to specialize in HIV during the outbreak of AIDS in the early 1980s.
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Robert Frascino was born in 1952 in Rochester, New York, to Jennie and Angelo Robert Frascino.
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Robert Frascino developed an interest in music at an early age, and he nearly attended the University of Rochester on a music scholarship.
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Robert Frascino received his bachelor's degree in biology from Oberlin in 1974.
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Robert Frascino was completing his postdoctoral work in San Francisco when the disease emerged there, and as a clinical immunologist, he began to see AIDS patients regularly.
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Robert Frascino began to serve as medical director of an oncology-immunology infusion and research center.
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In 1991, while working at his medical practice in Sunnyvale, California, Robert Frascino became infected with HIV while drawing fluid from an HIV-positive patient's blister.
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In May 2000, Robert Frascino began to run two advice forums on TheBody.
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Robert Frascino was a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology and of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Robert Frascino was a member of the American Academy of HIV Medicine.
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Robert Frascino spent time as chairman of the Santa Clara County Medical Society's AIDS Task Force.
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Robert Frascino resided in Los Altos, California, with his husband Steven Natterstad, whom he met in 1991.
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Robert Frascino responds to questions in Vivir con el VIH and Vivere con l'HIV, The Body's informational forums for Spanish- and Italian-speakers, respectively.
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However, unlike the drugs Robert Frascino had taken previously, his new medications produced much stronger side effects.
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Robert Frascino remained active as president of the Frascino AIDS Foundation and as a resident expert at The Body until three days before his death.