Paul E. Sax, MD - Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Paul E. Sax, MD is Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the HIV Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston.  He has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School since 1992, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine.  Dr. Sax received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1987, served his residency in Internal Medicine at BWH, and continued his postdoctoral education with a fellowship in the Infectious Disease Unit of Masschusetts General Hospital.  Dr. Sax is Editor-in-Chief of AIDS Clinical Care, is on the peer review board of the HIV/AIDS Section of UpToDate, and is the HIV disease section editor for Infectious Diseases Special Edition and Antibiotic Essentials.  He is also on the core faculty of the International AIDS Society - USA and the New England AIDS Education and Training Center.  He is actively involved in patient care, teaching and HIV research, and his main research interests include clinical trials of antiretroviral therapies, cost effectiveness of management strategies for HIV, toxicity of antiretroviral treatment, and identification, treatment and outcome of primary HIV infection.  He is presently the principal investigator at the BWH AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and a member of the Cost-Effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications (CEPAC) Research Group.  Dr. Sax lectures nationally and internationally on HIV therapy and has contributed many HIV-related publications to the medical literature.  He was awarded the Edward H. Kass Award in Clinical Excellence in 1993, the Harvard-Longwood Infectious Disease Fellowship Award in Clinical Teaching in 1997, and a Distinguished Faculty Resident Mentoring Award in 2003.

Calvin J. Cohen, MD, MS - Director of Research, Community Research Initiative of New England, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Calvin J. Cohen, MD, MSc, is the Research Director at Community Research Initiative of New England, Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Staff Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Research Director at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates.  He is actively involoved in patient care, teaching, and research.  He speaks nationally and internationally and has published numerous articles on HIV/AIDS.  His research interests include the study and antiviral treatment of HIV/AIDS and related topics.  Dr. Cohen has served as co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the AmFAR Community-Based Clinical Trial Network and was a co-investigator of the Harvard AIDS Clinical Trial Unit.  He is currently a co-principal investigator of the New England AIDS Education and Training Center, and is a co-investigator and member of the Science Planning Council for the Community Program for Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA), an NIH-supported network of clinician-researchers.  Dr. Cohen is recipient of the Outstanding Physician's Award for his work at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates; the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care - Robert H. Ebert Teaching Award and the Champions of the Search Award; the Community Recognition Award of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts; the Distinction for Research in Cardiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and the Upjohn Award for Excellence in Medical Training.

Daniel R. Kuritzkes, MD - Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of AIDS Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Associate Editor, Journal of Infectious Diseases , Chair, Board of Directors , HIV Medicine Association
Daniel R. Kuritzkes, MD, received his BS and MS degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1978, and his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1983. He completed his clinical and research training in internal medicine and infectious disease at Massachusetts General Hospital, and was a visiting scientist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research before joining the faculty at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1990. Dr. Kuritzkes returned to Harvard Medical School in 2002, where he is currently Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of AIDS Research, Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Dr. Kuritzkes has written widely on antiretroviral therapy and on the problem of drug resistance in HIV-1 infection. He currently chairs the AIDS Clinical Trials Group Scientific Agenda Steering Committee, in addition to serving as Vice Chair of the ACTG Executive Committee. Dr. Kuritzkes also is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Infectious Diseases and Chair, Board of Directors of the HIV Medicine Association. His research interests focus on antiretroviral therapy and drug resistance.