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Biographical Sketches of
Workshop Speakers
David Bangsberg, M.Sc., M.D., M.P.H., has dedicated his career to the
intersection between behavior and biology in impoverished populations. In
the era of “Hit early, hit hard,” Dr. Bangsberg published a paper in JAMA
that was among the first to argue that modifiable barriers to HIV antiret-
roviral adherence, such as depression, substance use, and unstable housing,
should be given equal priority as the biologic indications for treatment. In
a series of studies in HIV-infected homeless and marginally housed people,
he demonstrated that each HIV antiretroviral medication has a specific
adherence, viral suppression, and resistance relationship determined by how
resistance mutations impact on replication capacity under varying levels
of adherence. As Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center
for Global Health, Dr. Bangsberg has the privilege of working with some
of the best minds in global health science. Much of his time is devoted to
cultivating strong international partnerships, sustainable infrastructure,
efficient administrative policies, and mentoring young investigators to speed
the response to global health challenges. Dr. Bangsberg is an accomplished
investigator with continuous NIH funding since 1998, has more than 150
peer-reviewed publications, and was noted as the second highest funded
NIH RO-1 investigator for HIV/AIDS in 2007.
Grant Colfax, M.D., is the Director of HIV Prevention and Research at
the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The HIV Prevention Sec-
tion oversees multiple HIV prevention efforts throughout the city and cur-
rently funds more than 30 community-based organizations that conduct
HIV prevention work, including testing, counseling, syringe access, and
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other behavioral interventions for HIV-negative and HIV-positive persons.
Under his direction the Section works to inform policies, laws, and other
structural factors that influence HIV prevention. Dr. Colfax also serves as
Governmental Co-Chair of the HIV Prevention Planning Council, the com-
munity body that guides HIV prevention efforts for San Francisco. He is
an NIH- and CDC-funded research scientist whose studies include clinical
trials to reduce substance use among men who have sex with men, interven-
tions to determine the efficacy of counseling interventions to reduce STDs,
epidemiologic assessments of populations at high-risk for HIV, and the
implementation of new HIV testing technologies. Dr. Colfax has authored
multiple papers on the relationship between drug use and sexual risk which
have appeared in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to his research activi-
ties, Dr. Colfax is a clinician at the University of California San Francisco’s
Positive Health Program, where he treats persons with AIDS and those
at high-risk for HIV. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Colfax
completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of California,
San Francisco.
Wayne Duffus, M.D., Ph.D., graduated from the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, Bronx, New York, with an M.D. and Ph.D. in virology/cell biol-
ogy. He completed residency training in internal medicine at the Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City and fellowship training in
Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta,
Georgia. He subsequently worked as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Offi-
cer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was stationed
in Columbia, South Carolina. Dr. Duffus is currently an Associate Profes-
sor with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Infectious
Diseases Division, where he sees HIV/AIDS patients. He is also affiliated
with the Department of Health and Environmental Control as the Medical
Director for the STD/HIV Division and the AIDS Drug Assistance Program
pharmacy.
Heather L. Hauck, M.S.W., LIC.S.W., is the Director of the Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Infectious Disease and Envi-
ronmental Health Administration. The Maryland Infectious Disease and
Environmental Health Administration leads statewide public health efforts
to improve the health of Marylanders by reducing the transmission of
infectious diseases, helping impacted persons live longer, healthier lives,
and protecting individuals and communities from environmental health
hazards. Ms. Hauck is the Ex Officio Chair of the National Alliance of State
and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) and has been a member of the
organization since 2003. She serves on NASTAD’s Executive Committee,
Membership Committee, and the NASTAD Global Program Ethiopia team.
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Prior to joining the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene,
Ms. Hauck was an independent consultant providing technical assistance
to hospitals, national associations, and state public health agencies on HIV
program development issues. She served as the Section Chief of the New
Hampshire HHS Division of Public Health STD/HIV Section in Concord,
NH, from 2003 to 2006. Prior to her work in New Hampshire, Ms. Hauck
was a co-director and a social worker in the Washington Hospital Center
Social Work Department in Washington, DC. She has a Master of Social
Work degree from the National Catholic School of Social Service, Catholic
University of America in Washington, DC.
David Holtgrave, Ph.D., a nationally recognized leader in HIV prevention
and social science, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health,
Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health. He also holds joint appointments in the Schools of Medicine and
Nursing at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Holtgrave came to the Bloomberg School
from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University where he
was Professor and Vice-Chair of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
and Professor of Health Policy and Management. There, he also served as
Director of the Behavioral & Social Science Core of the Center for AIDS
Research. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, Dr. Holtgrave oversaw
HIV/AIDS services in the United States as Director of the Division of HIV/
AIDS Prevention: Intervention Research and Support in the National Center
for HIV, STD and TB Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) from 1997 to 2001. From 1991 until 1995, he worked
at the CDC developing HIV prevention programs and researching the effec-
tiveness and cost-effectiveness of a variety of HIV prevention interventions.
He edited The Handbook of Economic Evaluation for HIV Prevention
Programs and is the author or co-author of 200 professional publications.
Dr. Holtgrave received his doctoral degree in quantitative psychology in
1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed
a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Harvard University School of
Public Health.
Michael Alan Horberg, M.D., M.A.S., F.A.C.P., is Director of HIV/AIDS
program-wide for Kaiser Permanente and The Permanente Federation and
Clinical Lead for HIV/AIDS for the Care Management Institute. He co-
chairs the NCQA/AMA/HRSA/IDSA Expert Panel on HIV-related provider
performance measures. Dr. Horberg also chairs the Central Research Com-
mittee for KP Northern California. In that capacity, he also serves on the
KPNC Health Services Institutional Review Board. He is a Clinical Instruc-
tor at Stanford University Medical School and is a research scientist at
the TPMG Division of Research. Dr. Horberg is a Fellow of the American
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College of Physicians, and he presently serves on the Board of Directors of
the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Disease Society of America.
Dr. Horberg is Past-President of the national Gay and Lesbian Medical
Association. His HIV research interests are health service outcomes for
HIV-infected patients (including HIV quality measures and care improve-
ment, and determinants of optimized multidisciplinary care for maximized
HIV outcomes), medication adherence issues in these patients, and epide-
miology of the disease. He graduated from Boston University’s College of
Liberal Arts and School of Medicine (with honors of summa cum laude and
Phi Beta Kappa) and completed his internal medicine residency at Michael
Reese Hospital in Chicago (University of Chicago affiliate). He received his
Master of Advanced Studies (Clinical Research) from University of Cali-
fornia, San Francisco.
Stewart Landers, J.D., M.C.P., is a senior consultant at John Snow, Inc.
(JSI), based in Boston, Massachusetts, where he works on issues related to
health care reform, chronic disease, wellness, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse
treatment, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) health. From
2007–2009, Mr. Landers served as Senior Program Director at the Mas-
sachusetts Department of Public Health. In that role, he oversaw a variety
of programs addressing wellness, obesity and overweight, chronic disease,
primary care, school health, and violence and injury prevention, including
the development of Mass in Motion, statewide effort in Massachusetts to
combat overweight and obesity. In addition, he led a CDC-funded pilot
initiative to support Integration of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
Programs in the context of the state’s health care reform efforts. At JSI,
he has consulted with the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau, leading a project to develop six self-assessment
manuals for community based coalitions responsible for delivering services
to people living with HIV and AIDS under the Ryan White Modernization
Act. He has also conducted a collaborative research study with Harvard
Medical School to evaluate quality improvement efforts for Ryan White
care services. Beyond his work at JSI, Mr. Landers is an associate editor at
the American Journal of Public Health and teaches Evaluation of Health
Services at Tufts University.
Kevin Lindamood, M.S.W., has worked at the intersection of homeless-
ness and health since 1993 as an outreach worker, clinical social worker,
city employee, community organizer, public policy advocate, fundraiser,
and nonprofit administrator. He received a master’s degree in Social Work
and Community Organization from the University of Michigan in 1997.
Mr. Lindamood was a past organizer for the National Health Care for the
Homeless Council, working to integrate direct service and advocacy at non-
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profit organizations, and represented HCH in Baltimore during the annual
legislative session of the Maryland General Assembly. His policy interests
include health and homelessness, addiction treatment, mental health ser-
vices, HIV/AIDS, affordable housing, disability assistance, and income dis-
parity. Mr. Lindamood serves as Chair of the Maryland Medicaid Advisory
Committee, as Co-Chair of the Policy Committee for the National Health
Care for the Homeless Council, and as a Board member for the Maryland
Citizen’s Health Initiative. Currently, Mr. Lindamood is the Vice President
for External Affairs at Health Care for the Homeless, where he oversees
the agency’s community relations, public policy, and financial development
work. He also teaches health policy for the University of Maryland School
of Social Work.
Deborah Parham Hopson, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, is Associate Administrator
for HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) and is responsible for managing the
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006. The $2 bil-
lion program funds medical care, treatment, referrals, and support services
for uninsured and underserved people living with HIV disease as well as
training for health care professionals. She directs a multi-million dollar
global HIV/AIDS program with training, care, and treatment activities in
Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Dr. Parham Hopson served as acting asso-
ciate administrator of the HIV/AIDS Bureau between January 2002 and her
permanent appointment and as the bureau’s deputy associate administrator
for two years prior to that. Dr. Parham Hopson holds the rank of assistant
surgeon general and rear admiral in the Commissioned Corps of the United
States Public Health Service (USPHS), entering the Corps in 1984 with
HRSA’s Bureau of Community Health Services. She completed a variety of
assignments in the HIV/AIDS Bureau, served as deputy chief of staff in the
Office of the Surgeon General, and worked as a public health and budget
analyst and chief nurse for the National Health Service Corps and other
Bureau of Primary Health Care programs. Dr. Parham Hopson received her
undergraduate degree in nursing and health from the University of Cincin-
nati and her M.S. and Ph.D. in health policy and administration from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health.
Michael Saag, M.D., currently serves on the International AIDS Society-
USA Board of Directors, is President of the HIV Medical Association, and
serves as a member of the HHS Guidelines Panel on Antiretroviral Therapy
and on numerous state, local, and national committees. He has published
more than 280 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the first descrip-
tion of the use of viral load in clinical practice (Science, 1993), the first
description of the rapid dynamics of viral replication (Nature, 1995), the
first guidelines for use of viral load in practice (Nature Medicine, 1996), the
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first proof of concept of fusion inhibition as a therapeutic option (Nature
Medicine, 1998). He also directed the first in-patient studies of 7 of the 25
antiretroviral drugs currently on the market. Dr. Saag has contributed more
than 50 chapters to medical textbooks, has served on the Editorial Board
of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, Co-Edited a textbook entitled
AIDS Therapy (Churchill Livingston, now in its 3rd edition), and currently
serves as an Editor of the Sanford Guide for Antimicrobial Agents and the
Sanford HIV Guide. He recently served on the Board of Directors of the
American Board of Internal Medicine (and as Chair of the Infectious Dis-
ease Subspecialty Board), has twice served as a member of the HIV Disease
Committee of the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program for the
American College of Physicians, and has served recently on the NIH Office
of AIDS Research Advisory Council. Dr. Saag received a B.S. in chemistry
with honors in 1977 Tulane University and earned his medical degree from
the University of Louisville.
Merrill Singer, Ph.D., a medical anthropologist, is a Professor in the Depart-
ment of Anthropology and a Senior Research Scientist at Center for Health,
Intervention and Prevention at the University of Connecticut. Additionally,
he is on the faculty of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
at Yale University. Over his career, his research and writing have focused
on HIV/AIDS in highly vulnerable and disadvantaged populations, illicit
drug use and drinking behavior, community and structural violence, health
disparities, and the political ecology of health. His current research focuses
on the nature and impact of both syndemics (interacting epidemics) and
pluralea (intersecting ecocrises) on health. Additionally, he is a principal
investigator on an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship training program entitled
the Community-Based HIV Education Research Program for Diverse Racial
& Ethnic Groups. Dr. Singer has published more than 225 articles and
book chapters and has authored or edited 24 books. His newest book,
with J. Bryan Page, Comprehending Drug Use: Ethnographic Research at
the Social Margins, will be published by Rutgers University Press in the Fall
2010. He is a recipient of the Rudolph Virchow Prize, the George Foster
Memorial Award for Practicing Anthropology, the AIDS and Anthropology
Paper Prize, and the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical
Study of North America.
Catalina Sol, M.P.H., is the Chief Programs Officer of La Clínica del
Pueblo. La Clínica del Pueblo is a nonprofit, community clinic serving
uninsured persons in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, targeting
immigrant Latinos for quality health care. Ms. Sol served as La Clínica’s
HIV/AIDS Department Director for 10 years prior to assuming the current
position. The HIV/AIDS Department includes direct services for persons
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living with HIV, including primary medical care, case management, mental
health services, interpreters services, and support groups. In addition, La
Clínica provides a range of peer-based prevention services, including HIV
counseling and testing, and comprehensive HIV prevention interventions
for at-risk Latino groups. Ms. Sol has worked for the past 18 years in
health care settings serving immigrant, uninsured Latinos in the Washington
metropolitan area. She holds a master’s degree in Public Health from Johns
Hopkins University and is from El Salvador.
Evelyn Tomaszewski, M.S.W., is Senior Policy Advisor within the Human
Rights and International Affairs Division, National Association of Social
Workers (NASW). Ms. Tomaszewski serves as Project Director for the
NASW HIV/AIDS Spectrum: Mental Health Training and Education of
Social Workers Project, which addresses a range of health and behavioral
health issues with a focus on HIV/AIDS and co-occurring chronic illnesses.
In this role, she is responsible for a multi-phase, federally funded project
that provides training, education, and technical assistance to social workers
and allied health and mental health care providers. Ms. Tomaszewski staffs
two NASW leadership committees: the National Committee on Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues and the International Committee.
She promotes NASW Global HIV/AIDS Initiative through collaboration
with domestic and international groups and agencies, most recently com-
pleting a capacity and training needs assessment addressing the social work
workforce, volunteers, and psycho-social care providers in collaboration
with FHI–Ethiopia and Physicians for Peace. Previously within NASW, Ms.
Tomaszewski served as Senior Policy Associate with oversight responsibility
for NASW’s work with JCAHO, revising Social Work Standards for Health
Care Practice, and providing research and practice content for the NASW
Center for Workforce Studies. Ms. Tomaszewski holds a B.S.W. and M.S.W.
from West Virginia University and a Graduate Certificate in Procurement
and Contracts Management and a Certificate in Leadership Development
from the University of Virginia.
Andrea Weddle, M.S.W., has been the Executive Director of the HIV Medi-
cine Association (HIVMA), an organization representing frontline HIV
medical providers and researchers, since September 2008. Previously, she
served as the Associate Director of the association for 6 years. She devotes
much of her time to advancing HIVMA’s public policy and advocacy priori-
ties, which include improving access to health care for people with HIV/
AIDS, addressing HIV medical workforce issues, and promoting public
policies grounded in science. Prior to joining HIVMA, she conducted policy
research on Medicaid managed care programs as a research associate for
the Center for HIV Quality Care and served as the staff director for the
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Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. Ms. Weddle has worked in the health
policy field for more than 10 years and has a master’s degree in Social Wel-
fare from the University of California, Berkeley.
Becky L. White, M.D., M.P.H., is an assistant professor of medicine at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and currently serves
as the Co-Director of HIV services for the North Carolina Department of
Correction’s (NCDOC) State Prison system. Dr. White received her under-
graduate and medical degrees at the University of Virginia. She completed
her internal medicine residency and chief medical residency at the Medical
College of Virginia. She joined the UNC faculty to lead the HIV clinical
program in the State prison system after completing her subspecialty train-
ing in infectious disease. At UNC, Dr. White was one of the three founding
members of the UNC Center for AIDS Research Criminal Justice Working
Group, a research group focused on HIV and incarceration. Dr. White led
one of the first studies empirically describing the association between the
release of HIV-infected prisoners and the deleterious effect (increase) on
their post-release viral loads. Furthermore, she helped to conduct the first
ever randomized controlled trial of directly observed antiretroviral therapy
vs. self-administered antiretroviral therapy in a state prison system. She
also has participated in the implementation of HIV-opt out screening in
the North Carolina state prison system and HIV-prevention interventions
in incarcerated settings. She is now expanding her research focus on the
HIV at-risk community.
