McGILL UNIVERSITY
XVI International AIDS Conference Background Material
Dr. Mark A. Wainberg
Director of the McGill AIDS Centre, professor of medicine
Discovered antiviral capabilities of 3TC in 1989
Expertise: Conference itself, drug resistance, prevention, treatments, all issues of AIDS policy, international economic/social ramifications of epidemic.
Relevant link: http://www.mcgill.ca/microimm/department/associate_adjunct_prof/wainberg/
Contact:
Through Lisa Van Dusen
Director of Media and University Relations/McGill University
Cell phone during conference:
514-884-1587
BBerry: lisa.vandusen@mcgill.ca
Dr. Norbert Gilmore
Associate Director, McGill AIDS Centre, Associate Director, McGill Centre for Medicine,
Ethics and Law
Expertise: Faculty of medicine, all issues of AIDS and ethics, transmission, prevention,
AIDS in prison systems.
C: 514-912-6792
514-398-6925 norbert.gilmore@staff.mcgill.ca
Dr. Jody Heymann
Director, McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy, founding director, Harvard Project on Global Working Families

Expertise: MD, PhD, Prof. of both Political Science and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, foremost international expert on impact of health and social policy on families, presenting at the conference on African AIDS orphans and social policy.
514-884-1587 jody.heymann@mcgill.ca
Relevant link: http://www.thinresidency.com/cms/index.cfm?is_mod=1&category=1
Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy
Assoc. Prof., Faculty of Medicine, hematologist, McGill University Health Centre.
Expertise: Effects of valporic acid therapy on HIV reservoirs, changes in drug resistance.
514-843-1560
C: 514-993-3935 routyjp@muchem.mcgill.ca
Prof. Claudia Mitchell
James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education and Honorary Prof. in the Faculty of
Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Expertise: AIDS education/prevention programs for youth in South Africa. Currently developing a global AIDS education web tool on participatory methodologies (drama, photography, video, graffiti, hip-hop, new media). claudia.mitchell@mcgill.ca
Prof. Joanne Cyr ,
McGill Dept. of Psychology, Clinical Psychologist, Behavioural Medicine Specialist,
MUHC Immunodeficiency Service, Montreal Chest Institute
Expertise: Evaluation, treatment and consultation re chronic illness, health and wellness/African refugees living with HIV.
Toronto Htl: 416-766-4392 joanne.cyr@mcgill.ca
Dr. Christos Tsoukas
Associate Director, McGill AIDS Centre
Expertise: Artificial intelligence in choosing HIV/AIDS treatments, access and quality of
HIV/AIDS care in remote settings, telemedicine, early HIV/hemophiliac infections.
514-843-1560 c/o C: 514-884-1587 christos.tsoukas@mcgill.ca
Dr. Richard Lalonde
Montreal Chest Institute, McGill AIDS Centre, Chief of Infectious Diseases, McGill
University Health Centre
Expertise: HIV infection rates in Africa, evolving HIV treatments, HIV/hepatitis C coinfections.
514-843-2090

richard.lalonde@muhc.mcgill.ca
Relevant link: http://www.hivnet.ubc.ca/e/aboutus/bios/lalonde.html
Dr. Marina Klein
Immunodeficiency Service, Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University Health Centre
Expertise: Women and HIV, hepatitis C co-infections, impact of antiretroviral therapy on progression.
514-843-1560 marina.klein@muhc.mcgill.ca
Richard Gold
Director, McGill Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, McGill Faculty of Law
Expertise: Legal/regulatory issues affecting access to medicines/patents, particularly in developing countries.
514-398-6636 richard.gold2@mcgill.ca
Dr. Roy Baskind
Neurology resident, Montreal Neurological Institute
Volunteer with the Highlands Hope consortium to improve HIV/AIDS care in the Makete district of Tanzania
Expertise: Frontline medical care/AIDS in rural Africa.
C: 647 205-9533 roy.baskind@mail.mcgill.ca
Relevant link: http://www.highlandshope.com/
Dr. Brian Ward
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), and
Associate Director, McGill Centre for Tropical Diseases
Expertise: Infectious diseases, leader of study/project on impact of Vitamin A on mother-child transmission in Zimbabwe.
514-843-1560 brian.ward@mcgill.ca
Frances Aboud, PhD
Prof. of Psychology
Dr. Charles Larson, MD
Pediatrics and epidemiology
Jointly researching HIV/AIDS prevention among youth in Bangladesh
Expertise: Effectiveness of public health education with local leaders in developing countries, psychosocial components of disease, prevention and youth.
819-838-5057 frances.aboud@mcgill.ca
charles.larson@mcgill.ca
Relevant link: http://www.thinresidency.com/cms/view_country_info.cfm?country=18&m=3&sm=12

Dr. John B. Hughes
McGill University Health Centre
Currently establishing an Internet records system for three AIDS hospitals in Tanzania
Expertise: Modernization of systems/health care delivery in Africa.
C: 514-233-2908
Relevant link: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=83859b19df50-423e-959a-2fa9466c8903
Betty Liduke
Tanzanian health care worker, partner in McGill-supported Highlands Hope consortium and leader of a World Health Organization safe-sex program in 17 Tanzanian villages
First McGill University international clinical instructor
Expertise: Frontline AIDS care in rural Tanzania, social stigma as impediment to treatment.
Will be attending Toronto Conference bettyliduke@yahoo.com or
Lisa Van Dusen lisa.vandusen@mcgill.ca
Relevant link: http://www.highlandshope.com/2006/05/10/tanwat%e2%80%99s-bettyliduke-will-attend-aids-2006-conference-in-toronto/
MEDIA CONTACT:
Lisa Van Dusen
Director of University and Media Relations
McGill University
514-884-1587 lisa.vandusen@mcgill.ca