Fall 2006
Vol. 16, Number 3

The results are in! IDSA and HIVMA are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s election to the Board of Directors. They will take their positions on Saturday, October 14, during the 44th Annual Meeting of IDSA in Toronto at the Business Meeting.

Vice President
Anne Gershon, MD, FIDSA, is a professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Gershon is currently the chair of the IDSA Research Committee. She has served on the IDSA Awards Committee and the Board of Directors. Dr. Gershon also served on the council of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. Dr. Gershon will become IDSA president in 2008-2009.

Secretary-Treasurer
Barbara E. Murray, MD, FIDSA, is professor and director of the division of infectious diseases, vice-chair for research in the department of internal medicine, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-Emerging Pathogens at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Dr. Murray was chair of IDSA’s Awards Committee, served on the Board of the State and Regional ocieties, and served on the Publications, Annual Meeting Program, and Finance Committees. She was the 25th Maxwell Finland lecturer and has been a frequent speaker at the IDSA Annual Meeting. Dr. Murray was re-elected IDSA’s secretarytreasurer.

Directors
Jan E. Patterson, MD, FIDSA, is vice-chair of the department of medicine, director of the epidemiology laboratory, associate chair of medicine for VA programs, and a professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She is alsochief of the medical service and the infectious diseases section at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, and medical director of the anti-infective team at the University Health System in San Antonio. She has been active in hospital epidemiology, and has been a member of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Anti-Infective Advisory Board. Dr. Patterson has served on IDSA’s Nominations Committee, and as a reviewer for Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Robert A. Weinstein, MD, FIDSA, is the chief operating officer of the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center for the Prevention, Care, and Research of Infectious Diseases. He is chair of the division of infections at Cook County Hospital, director of infectious disease services for the Cook County Bureau of Health Services, and a professor at Rush Medical College. Dr. Weinstein is a past president of the Society forHealthcare Epidemiology of America and the immediate past chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Federal Advisory Committee on Healthcare Infection Control Practices. He served on IDSA’s Annual Meeting Program Committee.

State and Regional Societies Representative
Edward Septimus, MD, FIDSA, is medical director of infectious diseases and patient safety at the Billings Clinic in Billings, Mont. Dr. Septimus was chair of IDSA’s State and Regional Societies Committee, and he participated in the Program Committee and the Clinical Affairs Committee. He is currently an IDSA delegate to the American Medical Association, a member of IDSA’s Quality Measures Task Force, and a member of the Antimicrobial Resistance Work Group.

HIVMA Board Members
Eric P. Goosby, MD, is CEO and CMO of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation and senior medical consultant to the William Jefferson Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, and professor of clinical medicine at the University of California at San Francisco Department of Medicine. Dr. Goosby served in a number of senior positions on HIV/AIDS policy in the Clinton administration, and served on numerous domestic and global committees on HIV/AIDS policy. He is a member of several HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines panels, and has made multiple presentations to the National Academy of Sciences on such issues as needle exchange, HIV in minority communities, and HIV treatment in resource-poor settings. Dr. Goosby is author of more than 100 articles and book chapters on HIV/AIDS treatments, prevention,and policy.

Patricia J. Emmanuel, MD, is associate professor of pediatrics, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and directs the pediatric/adolescent HIV program at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine. Dr. Emmanuel also serves as a clinical consultant to the Florida Caribbean aids Education and Training Center and to the Statewide HIV/AIDS Advisory Council.

Jonathan E. Kaplan, MD, is chief of the HIV Care and Treatment Branch in the Global AIDS Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. He is also clinical assistant professor of medicine at Emory University and provides care to HIV-infected patients at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. He has served on the U.S. Public Health Service/IDSA Opportunistic Infections Working Group and the DHHS Panel on Treatment of HIV. He is co-chair of the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator’s (OGAC) Care and Treatment Steering Committee and the Palliative Care Technical Working Group.