Paul Bellman
AIDS Physician
Dr. Paul Bellman, a physician in private practice in Manhattan, has treated many HIV/AIDS patients over the past 25 years. As a medical student at NYU Medical School in 1980, he was involved in the care of the very first AIDS patients, then diagnosed with what was called GRID or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. Bellman was formerly an attending physician at Saint Vincent's Hospital in New York, and is now affiliated with New York Presbyterian Hospital.
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