Virginia A. Caine

Virginia A. Caine is an American physician who is the director and chief medical officer of the Marion County Public Health Department in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is a specialist in infectious diseases and is nationally recognized for her work with AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine for the Infectious Disease Division of the Indiana University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health. She is a past president of the National Medical Association.

Early life Caine's father was a pre-med advisor at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Caine received her bachelor's degree from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, and during her time there, she spent a summer at Harvard University School of Medicine. She attended New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, where she worked with King Holmes and graduated in 1976.

Career Caine served as a research epidemiologist studying HIV/AIDS at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. During her time in Indianapolis, Caine created Indianapolis' first HIV/AIDS integrated health care delivery system that included major hospitals, community health centers, social service agencies, and created the first HIV dental clinic.

Caine served as the co-director of the Indianapolis Healthy Babies Initiative, which together with many community leaders, has significantly reduced the infant mortality rate to 10.9 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2019. Caine serves as a board member for the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Editorial Board, and chair of the Managed Emergency Surge for Healthcare (MESH) Coalition, a nonprofit private-public partnership addressing emergency preparedness in Marion County, Indiana. She is a board member of the Indiana Latino Institute and a founding member of Indiana Health Information Exchange.

She is a past president of the National Medical Association. Practitioner of the Year, National Medical Association, 2010 Gerald L. Bepko IUPUI Community Medallion, 2019 Caine has received the Sagamore of the Wabash award from two Governors of Indiana