Cesar A. Caceres, MD

Dr. Caceres obtained his pre-medical and medical degrees from Georgetown University. He obtained specialty training in Internal Medicine at Tufts and Boston Universities in Boston, Massachusetts. He received Cardiology specialization and research training from George Washington University.

Dr. Caceres worked for the Public Health Service where he won two Superior Service Awards for developing the country’s first functional computer-electrocardiographic interpretive system. Later he joined George Washington University where he was Professor of Clinical Engineering. Dr. Caceres also patented an electronic stethoscope.  He has been a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Practice at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Dr. Caceres has edited and co-authored nine textbooks dealing with various aspects of medicine and health care. He has published over one hundred medical journal articles.

Dr. Caceres saw the first patients with HIV in DC in 1982 and has been involved with the diagnosis and treatment of HIV ever since. In an OP-Ed article on HIV in October 1985 in the Wall Street Journal and a letter to the Editor in the Journal of the American Medical, Dr. Caceres pointed out that the methodology used by the Centers for Disease Control to report the causes of HIV transmission understated the national figures of those who had become infected as a result of recreational drug use. As a result of these publications, the Centers for Disease Control changed their methodology for HIV reporting.

The Winter 2011 issue of HIV Specialist magazine (American Academy of HIV Medicine), featured Dr. Caceres, among other leading, early HIV treating physicians. "Fortunately the patients with HIV themselves had become my support system..."(read more)

He is fluent in English and Spanish.