Program Supplement [International Conference on AIDS (14th: 2002: Barcelona, Spain)]

Helene D. Gayle
Helene D. Gayle is the Director of the
HIV/AIDS and TB Program for the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation. She received her
BA from Barnard College of Columbia
University, New York, her MD from the
University of Pennsylvania and MPH from
Johns Hopkins University. She has worked for USAID and
served as a health consultant to international agencies
including the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World
Bank and UNAIDS and has worked extensively in Africa, Asia,
and the Americas. Prior to assuming her current position, she
was the Director for the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB
Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Lawrence Corey
Dr Corey is currently head of the Program in
Infectious Disease and a member of the
Clinical Research Division at the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle,
Washington. At the University of Washington,
in Seattle, he is a professor in the
Department of Laboratory Medicine, where he is head of the
Diagnostic Virology Division; a professor of medicine; and an
adjunct professor in the departments of pediatrics and
microbiology. In addition, Dr Corey is the Principal Investigator
for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network. He is also an attending
physician at hospitals associated with the University of
Washington and with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center.
Dr Corey received his medical degree from the University of
Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1971. He
completed his internship and residency from the university's
Medical Center Hospitals in 1973 and then served for 2 years
as an epidemic intelligence service officer at the Centers for
Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1975-77, he was
senior fellow in medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease,
University of Washington. He joined the faculty of the
University of Washington in 1978 and has been a professor
since 1984.
A prolific writer, Dr. Corey has published over 400 original
research papers, co-authored or served as editor of 11 books,
and contributed chapters to innumerable books. He also
serves as editor on numerous medical journals. His research
has long focused on infectious and sexually transmitted
diseases, particularly herpes simplex virus and human
immunodeficiency virus.

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch is the director
of the International Harm Reduction
Development program (IHRD) at the Open
Society Institute, which has pioneered
technical and financial support for harm
reduction projects across Eastern Europe and
countries of the former Soviet Union. Under her direction,
IHRD, based in New York, has expanded its support to
underserved communities such as prisoners, street children,
and sex workers. After receiving her Masters of Social Work
from the University of Pennsylvania in the US in 1992, she
worked with the United Nations Development Programme's HIV
and Development Programme in both New York City and
Poland. In her home country, Poland, she managed a $2.5
million program that supported HIV initiatives by the
government and civil sectors. Among other things, she
co-authored the first National AIDS Program for Poland and
designed training programs for nurses, physicians, social
workers, teachers, local policy makers, prison personnel, and
psychologists. She is a doctoral candidate in public health at
Columbia University and has made presentations on harm
reduction issues at countless conferences and published
widely on the topic. She was recently appointed to serve on
the first international Technical Review Panel of the Global
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Suniti Solomon
In 1986, Suniti Solomon MD and colleagues
documented the first evidence of H IV
infection in India. She set up the first
voluntary testing and counseling center and
an AIDS Research Group in Madras. In 1993,
she founded YRG CARE, a non-profit center
that offers HIV and sexuality education for adolescents and
young adults, voluntary counseling and testing services,
integrated care for people living with HIV, and also conducts
medical and behavioral research. She offers services for
pregnant women living with HIV. She is a member of the core
team supporting the Prevention of Vertical Transmission of the
NACO, India. Dr Solomon is the India site PI for NIMH Multisite
HIV/STD Prevention Trial and for NIAID's HPTN in the FenwayBrown-YRG CARE HPTU. Her interests cover a range of HIV
issues - biological and social research, community education
and mobilization, bioethics, adolescent sexuality and HIV
clinical and laboratory services.
Dr Solomon is the Chairperson of the Advisory Board of
Trauma Care Consortium, a public service offering emergency
ambulance services in the City of Chennai (Madras). She is
also the Chairperson of the Indian Institute of Community
Health, a project promoting community-based social marketing
of reproductive health concepts, products and services.
She has participated in several international conferences and
has published original work in epidemiology, social and clinical
aspects of HIV/AIDS. She has a vivid interest in nature.
She lives in Madras with her husband, the distinguished
cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Victor Solomon, and their son Sunil.

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