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• B.S. Tufts University, 1963
• M.D. Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1967
• Assistant resident in anatomic pathology, New York Hospital, NY, 1968-70
• Neuropathology Fellowship, AFIP, 1971-73
• Assistant, associate, and professor of pathology, director of neuropathology, Cornell University Medical College, New York Hospital, 1973-1992
• Professor of pathology, University of Miami School of Medicine, 1992 - present

Research Interests

Petito's current area of research involves the effects of HIV on the nervous system, looking at mechanisms involved in neuronal and white matter injury in HIV-infected patients as well as in pathophysiology of viral entry into brain. In addition Petito heads the brain and tissue bank for developmental disorders. Both receive NIH funding.

Selected Publications

Petito CK. Adkins R, Tracey K, Roberts B, Torres-Munoz J, McCarthy M, Czeisler C. Chronic systemic administration of tumor necrosis factor alpha and of HIV gp120: effects on adult rodent brain and blood-brain barrier. J Neurovirol 5: 314-318, 1999.

Petito CK, Chen H, Mastri A, Torres-Munoz J, Roberts B, Wood C. HIV Infection of Choroid Plexus in AIDS and Asymptomatic HIV-infected Patients suggests that the Choroid Plexus may be an Important Reservoir of Productive Infection. J. Neurovirol 5:670-677, 1999.

Wood C, Chen H, Petito CK. Comparisons of HIV-1 viral sequences in brain, choroid plexus and spleen: potential role of choroid plexus in the pathogenesis of HIV encephalitis. J Neurovirol 6:498-506, 2000.

Torres-Munoz JE, Redondo M, Czeisler C, Roberts B, Tacoronte N, Petito CK. Upregulation of glial clusterin in brains of patients with AIDS. Brain Res 888:297-301, 2001.

Petito CK, Roberts B, Cantando JD, Rabinstein A, Duncan R. Hippocampal injury and alterations in neuronal chemokine co-receptor expression in patients with AIDS. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol, 60: 377-385, 2001

Torres-Munoz J, Stockton P, Tacoronte N, Roberts B, Maronpot R, Petito CK. Detection of HIV-1 gene sequences in hippocampal neurons isolated from post-mortem AIDS brains by laser capture microdissection. J Neuropath Exp Neurol, 60: 885-892, 2001.