About Me
One of Canada's leading HIV/AIDS researchers and Director of the Drug Treatment Program of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. His research has informed Governments, enhanced best practice guidelines and provided essential evidence for groundbreaking policies including the expansion of anti-retroviral therapy in BC and elsewhere. His work provided the first global scientific evidence that HIV can be a long term chronic condition rather than a fatal disease in high income countries. This paradigm shift has reduced the fear and stigma surrounding the disease in both HIV positive persons and in the societies in which they live.