Carlos del Rio, MD, FIDSA has been named Hubert Professor of Global Health and chair of the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.  Previously Dr. del Rio served as professor of medicine at Emory University’s infectious diseases division, where he will maintain an appointment, and chief of medicine at Gray Memorial Hospital. He is also co-director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research and director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center on AIDS.  Dr. del Rio is on the Board of Directors for the HIV Medicine Association and is a member of the IDSA Education Committee.

Eric P. Goosby, MD has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be director of the Office of Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC). Congress will hold confirmation hearings in June. If confirmed, Dr. Goosby will oversee the newly reauthorized President's Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), leaving his current position as CEO of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation in San Francisco. Dr. Goosby is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Center for Global Health Policy at IDSA and a member of the Board of Directors for the HIV Medicine Association. 

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