Committees
The members of the Organizing Committee (OC) discuss, on a frequent basis, the scientific program of the workshop, identify interesting topics and candidate speakers and review all submitted abstracts.
The members of Scientific Committee assist the OC by providing them with suggestions for speakers and topics. In addition, members of the Scientific Committee actively participate in reviewing submitted abstracts.
Organizing Committee:
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Charles Boucher MD, PhD
Dr. Boucher, MD, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Virology Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dr Boucher received his medical degree cum laude from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Specializing in medical microbiology, he also received a PhD degree from that institution. Since then, Dr Boucher has been a research assistant at the University of Amsterdam ...
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Jean-François Delfraissy MD, PhD
Jean-François Delfraissy MD, PhD National Agency for Aids Research (ANRS), France
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Elly Katabira MD, FRCP
Elly T Katabira, MD, FRCP, , is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
Dr. Katabira received his medical degree at Makerere and went on to specialize in Neurology in England. However, he has been working in the field of HIV as a clinician, an educator and a researcher since 1985. ...
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Richard Koup, MD
Richard Koup MD,is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Immunology Laboratory at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) within the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Koup has spent most of his career studying the protective role of HIV-specific cellular immunity. His specific research involves the characterization of T cells factors that are involved in the control of HIV replication, ...
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Joep Lange MD, PhD
Joep M.A. Lange, MD, PhD is currently Professor of Medicine at the Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, where he heads the Department of Global Health. He also serves as Chairman of PharmAccess Foundation and as Scientific Advisor to the Board of the Health Insurance Fund Foundation (which pioneers mechanisms of sustainable financing of health care in resource-poor settings). ...
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Timothy Mastro MD, FACP, DTM&H
Timothy Mastro, MD, FACP, DTM&H is Vice President for Health and Development Sciences at FHI, Durham, North Carolina, USA. He is also Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Mastro oversees FHI’s research and technical work conducted in the United States and through FHI’s 30 country offices in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. ...
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Helen Rees MD
Professor Helen Rees MD, is the Executive Director of the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit (RHRU), the largest research unit of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Prof Rees received her Medical Degree and her Masters in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and in 2002 became an alumni of Harvard Business School. ...
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Papa Salif Sow MD, MS
Papa Salif Sow MD, MS is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Dakar in Senegal. He received his Medical Degree from the faculty of medicine of the University of Dakar in 1987. He trained as a physician specialized in Infectious and Tropical Diseases. Dr Sow completed his training at the Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp in Belgium in 1991 (where he obtained a Master on Sciences) and in Nagasaki University Japan in 1994. ...
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Jeffrey Stringer, MD
Jeffrey Stringer MD is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ). A native Mississippian, Stringer received his medical degree from Columbia University in 1995, ...
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