World AIDS Day, December 1: McGill/MUHC experts
Here is a list of experts from McGill, the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital available for comment on your stories for World AIDS Day:
Nicole Bernard, Researcher, Infection & Immunity, Research Institute of the MUHC
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University
Expertise: HIV resistance, genetics associated with protection from HIV infection, slow replication of HIV among people with protective genes.
Available for interviews in English and French.
nicole.bernard [at] mcgill.ca
Shelley Clark, Professor, Department of Sociology, McGill
Director, Centre on Population Dynamics
CRC, Youth, Gender and Global Health
Expertise: social determinants of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa; HIV risks within marriage; adolescent transitions in high HIV contexts; couple dynamics and negotiation with respect to HIV
Available for interviews in English
shelley.clark [at] mcgill.ca
Julian Falutz, Director, HIV Metabolic Clinic, MUHC, Coordinator of Chronic Viral Illness Service, HIV and Aging Clinic, MUHC
Expertise: clinical care of HIV patients, teaching, clinical research.
Available for interviews in French and English
+available after Dec 1
julian.falutz [at] muhc.mcgill.ca
Nitika Pant Pai, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill
Researcher, Infection & Immunity, Research Institute of the MUHC
Expertise: Self-testing strategies, screening strategies for HIV and co-infections, development of smart apps for self-testing, synergizing health, multiplexed testing in different at-risk populations, impact of oral testing and counseling in women in labor, simultaneous testing of pregnant women for co-infections.
Available for interviews in English
nitika.pai [at] mcgill.ca
Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy, Professor of Medicine, McGill, Department of Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Chronic Viral Illness Service and Division of Hematology
Expertise: HIV primary infection; vaccines, Kaposi’s sarcoma and lymphoma
Available for interviews in French and English
jean-pierre.routy [at] mcgill.ca
Mark Wainberg, Director, McGill AIDS Centre
Professor, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University
Head of the HIV/AIDS research axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital
Past President of the International AIDS Society
Expertise: Development of anti-HIV drugs, HIV drug resistance, HIV vaccines
Available for interviews in French and English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz7l5ayqfjE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8KIyqfX7UY
mark.wainberg [at] mcgill.ca
On December 1, World AIDS Day, GAP-VIES, in collaboration with the MUHC, is organizing a dinner conference on the importance of prevention and screening in Montreal’s Haitian and African communities.
http://muhc.ca/newsroom/event/world-aids-day-2014-let%E2%80%99s-talk-about-hiv
Le 1er décembre, GAP-VIES organise un souper-conférence pour souligner l’importance de la prévention et du dépistage auprès des Communautés haïtienne et africaine de Montréal en collaboration avec le CUSM.
http://cusm.ca/newsroom/evenement/journ%C3%A9e-mondiale-lutte-contre-sida-2014-parlons-du-vih