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| The AIDSmeds.com Team |
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Tim Horn
President and Editor-in-Chief
Tim Horn is president and editor-in-chief of AIDSmeds. He has been working with AIDSmeds since the website was launched in 1999. He is also editor-in-chief of hepmag.com, AIDSmeds' sister site dedicated to people living with and at risk for viral hepatitis, notably chronic hepatitis B and C. In addition, he serves as an executive editor at Smart + Strong, where he oversees the medical, scientific, and treatment information in POZ magazine and other publications.
For more than 20 years, Tim has worked in the vast arena of HIV/AIDS, as a writer, editor, advocate, educator and research associate for organizations like Physicians' Research Network (PRN), the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), the AIDS Treatment Data Network, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mexico's Department of Health, the PWA Health Group and the AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition. He has also served on a number of government and non-government advisory committees.
Tim has been living with HIV for more than 20 years and is a survivor of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Andy Velez
Forums Moderator
Andy's "mosaic" has included a lengthy career as a book publisher and editor as well as many years in a still active private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, working with individuals, couples and groups.
A committed HIV activist since 1987, he's been involved in many conferences in the U.S. and abroad, focusing particularly on the rights of those living with HIV, access to treatment and infection prevention, as well as long-term survivor issues. His work in an HIV clinical trial unit in New York involved alerting affected communities to their vulnerability to tuberculosis and his HIV-related articles have appeared in many publications including POZ, Out and Body Positive. A consultant to the Latino Commission on AIDS, Andy's taught at the New School University in New York and is often a guest speaker at high schools and colleges throughout the country.
Many of his writings are also on entertainment-related subjects. They continue to appear in many publications as well as CD liner notes for original cast recordings as well as performers such as Doris Day, Fred Astaire, Ella Fitzgerald and Artie Shaw among many others.
A founding member of Queer Nation, recently his interviews were included in the anthology, Cast Out: Queer Lives in the Theater, a collection focusing on out lesbians and gays currently working on the American stage.
He's the proud father of two young adult sons.
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Ann Smith
Forums Moderator
Ann Smith is a human being, woman and mother whose motto is "be the change you wish to see."
A student at the University of Life, Planet Earth, since 1962, Ann studied in Indiana, Ohio and New York before continuing her easterly trajectory to the Isle of Man, where she continues her studies including art, nature, humanity, and the interconnectivity of life. Current special interests and challenges include HIV and Hepatitis C. She has no immediate plans for graduation.
Ann became an AIDSmeds Forums Member in 2001 and joined the Moderator Team as a volunteer in 2003. She is grateful for the opportunity to give back to the Positive Community and believes in the right of all people to scientifically sound health information without strings of judgment, prejudice or stigma attached.
She says; "All the world is a classroom and we are both student and teacher."
You can read Ann's HIV blog at blogs.poz.com/ann.
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Peter Staley
Founder and Advisory Editor
AIDSmeds.com was founded by Peter Staley in 1999 (it launched in March, 2000).
In 1987, Peter became a founding member of ACT UP New York and, in 1992, founded the Treatment Action Group (TAG).
Peter founded AIDSmeds.com for two reasons: to continue helping people living with HIV, and to finally get himself off disability. |
Board of Advisors
Lloyd E. Bailey, MD
The Spellman HIV Center
St. Vincent's Midtown Hospital
James F. Braun, DO, AAHIVS
President
Physicians' Research Network
Editor-in-Chief
The PRN Notebook
Howard A. Grossman, MD, AAHIVS
Roy M. Gulick, MD, MPH
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Professor of Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Donald P. Kotler, MD
Director, Gastrointestinal Division
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Professor of Medicine
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Susan E. Krown, MD
Member and Attending Physician
Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
James Learned
Martin M. Markowitz, MD
Clinical Director
Staff Investigator
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
Aaron Diamond Professor
Rockefeller University |
Joel M. Palefsky, MD, CM, FRCP(C)
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
University of California, San Francisco
Judith G. Rabkin, PhD, MPH
Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Research Scientist
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Matt Sharp
Director of Treatment and Prevention Advocacy
Project Inform
William Shay, MD
Attending Physician
St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
New York Medical College
Tracy Swan
Coinfection Project Director
Treatment Action Group
Antonio E. Urbina, MD
Medical Director
HIV/AIDS Education and Training
St. Vincent's Comprehensive HIV Center
Mary A. Vogler, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Investigator, Cornell Clinical Trials Unit
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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Contributing Writers
Emily Bass
Spencer Cox
Kenyon Farrow
Lark Lands—www.larklands.net
Mary Ellen McPeak
Laura Pinsky
Deneen Robinson
Andy Velez
Bo Young |
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