Faebris Medical & Community Education
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Zandraetta Tims Cook, MD, MPH, AAHIVS is a board-certified internist and infectious diseases physician in Atlanta, GA. She attended Spelman College in Atlanta, GA and majored in pre-med/ biology. She grew interested in the health concerns of women while studying Public Health/ Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University in New York, NY. She became especially concerned about HIV health disparities involving African-American women in the late 1990s and decided on a career in medicine in the sub-specialty of infectious diseases. She is a graduate of Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University in New York, NY and completed internal medicine residency training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. She returned to her home state of Georgia for infectious diseases fellowship training at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Tims Cook maintains an interest in HIV health disparities, particularly disparities involving women in the South. She has published research with the HIV Prevention Trials Network. She is involved in innumerable community outreach efforts in HIV education and founded The Heather Ivy Society, Inc. a non-profit social services and emotional support group for persons, particularly women who are living with HIV. Dr. Tims Cook is, also, a lecturer in the Environmental and Health Sciences Program at Spelman College, which supports the pre-medical education of young women at the institution. She has been a featured infectious diseases guest on numerous TV news segments with WSB-TV Channel 2 and Fox 5 in Atlanta, GA discussing influenza, legionella, HIV and COVID-19.
She has worked as an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and has established a private infectious diseases practice, Faebris Medical & Community Education, which serves the southwest Atlanta community. This practice is intentionally positioned in a neighborhood setting to offer convenient access to needed medical services for residents of the community.