James Oleske

James Oleske
Alma materUniversity of Detroit, New Jersey Medical School, Columbia University, Emory University School of Medicine
Scientific career
FieldsHIV/AIDS research, pediatrics
InstitutionsRutgers New Jersey Medical School
External videos
“UMDNJ Legacy Dr. James Oleske, September 25, 2013, Rutgers Health

James M. Oleske is an American pediatrician and HIV/AIDS researcher who is the emeritus François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Professor of Pediatrics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, New Jersey. He is best known for his pioneering work in identifying HIV/AIDS as a pediatric disease, and treating and researching it beginning in the 1980s. He published one of the first articles identifying HIV/AIDS in children in JAMA in 1983 and was a co-author of one of the articles by Robert Gallo and others identifying the virus in Science in 1984.