Martha Vibbert is Executive Director of the SPARK Center at Boston Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. As a licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Vibbert has over 20 years of experience in the delivery of mental health services to young people who are living with HIV/AIDS, first at Harlem Hospital in NYC and since 1991, at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Vibbert has served on the Mayor's Planning Council for Ryan White CARE Act Title I services in Boston, and she is a clinical supervisor for the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology at BU School of Medicine. She is a specialist on the topics of diagnostic disclosure to children with HIV/AIDS; early neurodevelopmental manifestations of the disease, and emotional/behavioral outcomes in adolescents who are living with the virus. In addition to overseeing AIDS service grants funded by the MA Dept. of Early Education and Care, MA Department of Public Health, and Boston Public Health Commission, Dr. Vibbert collaborates on youth-oriented HIV projects in Zambia and Uganda.

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