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Marshall Glesby, MD, PhD is a Professor of Medicine and Population Health Sciences, Associate Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and Vice Chair for Mentoring and Faculty Development in the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also the Director of the Cornell HIV Clinical Trials Unit and Regional Clinical Director of the Northeast Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center. Dr. Glesby is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also has a Ph.D. in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He is an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and a former member of the Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). His research program focuses on cardiopulmonary, metabolic, and aging-related complications and co-morbidities in people with HIV. He has co-authored over 150 peer reviewed publications.

Deborah Persaud, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Director of the Fellowship Program in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University of School of Medicine. Her current research focuses on drug-resistant HIV reservoirs following mother-to-child HIV-transmission, the contraction and expansion of pro-viral reservoirs over time with effective HAART, virologic and immunologic markers of elite control of HIV replication through use of early HAART in children, and novel treatment strategies to facilitate elimination of HIV reservoir to achieve cure in HIV infected infants, children and youth globally.