executive committee
The ARI Executive Committee consists of representatives from each of the four UCSF schools—medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy—a representative from each of the main programs and affiliated laboratories which the ARI comprises, and three members elected at large to a two-year term. The committee meets on a bimonthly basis.
Executive Committee Members
Nina Agabian, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, School of Dentistry
Director, Oral AIDS Center, School of Dentistry
Director of Research, UCSF Global Health Sciences
Francesca Aweeka, PharmD
Professor of Pharmacy
Director, Drug Research Unit
David Bangsberg, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Epidemiology and Prevention Interventions Center
Jason D. Barbour, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Chair, Junior Faculty AIDS Researchers (JFAR)
Susan Buchbinder, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology
Director, HIV Research Section, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Michael Busch, MD, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Laboratory Medicine
Vice President, Research and Scientific Affairs, Blood Systems, Inc.
Director, Blood Systems Research Institute
Haile T. Debas, MD
Executive Director, UCSF Global Health Sciences
Maurice Galante Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Chancellor Emeritus, Dean Emeritus, School of Medicine
Ruth Greenblatt, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology
Director, Bay Area Research Consortium on Women and AIDS
Director, Women's Specialty Program
Principal Investigator, Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS)
Warner C. Greene, MD, PhD
Director, Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology
Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research
John S. Greenspan, BDS, PhD, Director
Leland A. and Gladys K. Barber Professor and Dean for Research, School of Dentistry
Professor of Oral Biology and Oral Pathology, School of Dentistry
Professor of Pathology, School of Medicine
Director, UCSF AIDS Specimen Bank
C. Bradley Hare, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Positive Health Program at SFGH
Diane V. Havlir, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, HIV/AIDS Division and Positive Health Program
Principal Investigator, Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group
Frederick Hecht, MD
Professor of Medicine
Osher Foundation Endowed Chair in Research in Integrative Medicine
Research Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Mallory Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Jay A. Levy, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Laboratory of Tumor and AIDS Virus Research
Joseph M. McCune, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director, ARI AIDS Biology Program
Chief, Division of Experimental Medicine
Senior Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research
Stephen F. Morin, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Director, AIDS Policy Research Center
Director, Policy and Ethics Core, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Carmen J. Portillo, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor & Vice Chair, Academic Personnel, Department of Community Health Systems, School of Nursing
Co-Director, UCSF International Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Clinical Training in Nursing
Director, UCSF & MUCHS (Tanzania) Schools of Nursing American International Health Alliance Twinning Project
Arthur Reingold, MD, MPH
Professor and Division Head, Division of Epidemiology,
UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Director, Fogarty International AIDS Training Program
E. Michael Reyes, MD, MPH
Associate Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Principal Investigator and Director, Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center
Co-Director, International Training & Education Center on HIV (I-TECH)
Director, I-TECH/UCSF Twinning Center Collaboration
George W. Rutherford, MD
Salvatore Pablo Lucia Professor of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, and Pediatrics
Head, Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Vice Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Director, CAPS International Core
Director, Institute for Global Health
Paul A. Volberding, MD
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Medicine
Chief of Medical Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research
Diane W. Wara, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief of Pediatric Immunology/Rheumatology
Program Director, Pediatric Clinical Research Center