America Living With AIDS

Don C. Des Jarlais is currently the Director of Research for the Chemical Dependency Institute
of Beth Israel Medical Center, Deputy Director for AIDS Research with Narcotic and Drug
Research, Inc., and Professor of Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is
an international leader in the fields of AIDS and intravenous drug use and during the past seven
years has published over 100 scientific articles on the topics. He was the plenary speaker on intravenous drug use and AIDS at the 3rd, 4th, and 7th International Conferences on AIDS. He also
serves as a consultant to various institutions, including the Centers for Disease Control, the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Academy of Sciences, and the World Health Organization. He is a Guest Investigator at Rockefeller University and a Visiting Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Dr. Des Jarlais earned his Doctorate of Philosophy in Social Psychology
from the University of Michigan.
Eunice Diaz, M.S., M.P.H., a private health consultant, is a nationally known expert and speaker on the subject of AIDS in the Hispanic community, and a former board member of AIDS Project
Los Angeles. In addition, Ms. Diaz has served on numerous AIDS-related committees and panels,
including the Los Angeles County Commission on AIDS, the Planning Committee for the Surgeon
General's Conference on Pediatric AIDS, and most recently, the Task Force on AIDS of the Society
for Hospital Marketing and Public Relations, American Hospital Association. Ms. Diaz earned her
Master of Science and Master of Public Health at the Loma Linda University. She has received an
honorary doctorate degree in humanities.
Donald S. Goldman is an attorney in private practice as a partner in the West Orange, New Jersey, law firm of Harkavy, Goldman, Goldman & Caprio. Active in The National Hemophilia Foundation and its chapters for over 25 years, he served as its Chairman from 1983 to 1984 and its President from 1984 to 1986. Mr. Goldman coordinated The National Hemophilia Foundation's efforts
to improve the safety of the nation's blood supply, began many of its efforts in HIV risk reduction,
and introduced initiatives to improve hemophilia and HIV service delivery to minorities. Currently he is also Vice President of the National Health Council, Inc. Mr. Goldman earned his J.D. from
Rutgers University and has published and lectured widely on legal aspects of hemophilia, HIV
infection, and other medical and ethical issues. He is a member of the Bar of New Jersey, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
Larry Kessler is a founding member and Executive Director of the AIDS ACTION Committee
of Massachusetts, New England's largest AIDS service organization. Beginning in 1983 as its only
paid staff member, Kessler organized a corps of volunteers to combat the AIDS epidemic through
education, service, advocacy, and outreach. He now oversees a staff of 75 full-time employees and
more than 2,000 volunteers who provide support services to more than 1,400 men and women living with AIDS and HIV, and educational programs for health care providers, the public, and communities at risk of HIV infection. Kessler continues to play a leading role in advocating on the federal, state, and local levels for fair and effective AIDS policy and funding. He was an original
member of the Massachusetts Governor's Task Force on AIDS and the Boston Mayor's Task Force
on AIDS, under appointments by Governor Michael S. Dukakis and Mayor Raymond Flynn,
respectively. Kessler is a founding board member of the former National AIDS Network and the
AIDS ACTION Council in Washington, on whose board he continues to serve. Most recently, he
was named to the Advisory Boards of the Harvard AIDS Institute and the National Leadership
Coalition on AIDS. In 1987, Simmons College in Boston awarded him an Honorary Degree of
Doctor of Human Services.

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