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AIDS Research Advisory Committee

Chairperson

Wafaa El-Sadr, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A. (09)
Principal Investigator, Harlem AIDS Treatment Group (HATG)
New York, NY

Members

Robert G. Brooks, M.D., M.B.A. (10)
(NIAID Council AIDS Subcommittee)
Associate Dean for Health Affairs
Professor of Family Medicine and Rural Health
College of Medicine, Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL

Susan Buchbinder, MD (08)
Director, San Francisco Department of Health
HIV Research Section
San Francisco, CA

Carol A. Carter, Ph.D.
(NIAID Council AIDS Subcommittee)
Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
School of Medicine
SUNY at Stony Brook
Life Sciences Building
Stony Brook, NY

Satya Dandekar, M.S., M.Sc., Ph.D. (10)
(NIAID Council AIDS Subcommittee)
Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Professor, University of California, Davis
Davis, CA

Kathryn Edwards, M.D. (10)
(NIAID Council AIDS Subcommittee)
Professor of Pediatrics and Vice Chair for Research
Pediatric Clinical Research Office
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

Daria J. Hazuda, Ph.D. (10)
Vice President, Virus and Cell Biology
Merck Research Laboratories
West Point, PA

Andrea Kovacs, M.D. (10)
Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology
Keck School of Medicine
Director, Maternal-Child and Adolescent Center for Infectious Disease and Virology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Brenda Lein (09)
Director, Information and Advocacy Department
Project Inform
San Francisco, CA

Jeffrey Lennox, M.D. (08)
Associate Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Grady Infectious Disease Program
Atlanta, GA

David Margolis, M.D. (08)
Professor of Public Health, Microbiology, and Medicine
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Louis J. Picker, M.D.
(NIAID Council AIDS Subcommittee)
Associate Director
Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health Sciences University – West Campus
505 NW 185th Avenue
Beaverton, OR

Christel H. Uittenbogaart, M.D.
(NIAID Council AIDS Subcommittee)
Professor
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Ex-Officio Members

Deborah L. Birx, M.D.
Director, Global AIDS Program (GAP)
HHS/CDC/NCHSTP
Atlanta, GA

Henry Masur, M.D.
Chief, Critical Care Medicine
NIH Clinical Center
Bethesda, MD

Colonel Nelson Michael
Director, U.S. Military HIV Research Program
Medical Corps, United States Army Chief
Rockville, MD

Ronald O. Valdiserri, M.D., M.P.H.
Chief, Consultant Public Health Strategic Health Care Group
Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards
Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington, DC

Jack Whitescraver, Ph.D.
Director, Office of AIDS Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC) Liaison

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