Amneris Luque, M.D.

Amneris Esther Luque, M.D., is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She serves as Medical Director of the HIV Program for the Parkland Health and Hospital System and as Director of the Community Prevention and Intervention Unit in UT Southwestern’s School of Health Professions, which became part of the Division of Infectious Diseases in 2020. She specializes in HIV and other infectious diseases.

Dr. Luque earned her medical degree at the Universidad de Carabobo in Valencia, Venezuela. She then completed a residency in internal medicine at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, followed by advanced training in infectious diseases through separate fellowships at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and the State University of New York at Stony Brook Health Sciences Center.

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Luque joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2016. Previously, she served for 22 years at the University of Rochester Medical Center, where she was the Director of the HIV Program and a key contributor in the development of clinical guidelines and HIV education initiatives for New York State; during that time she also was an investigator for the National Institutes of Health-sponsored AIDS Clinical Trials Group at the University of Rochester.

The author of numerous research articles and invited national and international lectures, Dr. Luque focuses her current clinical studies on community-based participatory research and implementation trials for HIV disease and general infectious diseases.

She is a member of the American Academy of HIV Medicine, the American Society for Microbiology, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the National Hispanic Medical Association, and the Venezuelan Society of Infectious Diseases.