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Jeffrey Birnbaum, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. He is a Downstate alumnus and is the Executive Director of Health & Education Alternatives for Teens (“HEAT”). At HEAT, he has

provided medical care to hundreds of HIV infected youth ages 13-29 years since 1992. Dr. Birnbaum is an adolescent medicine specialist who has focused most of his professional career working with HIV infected youth, PrEP services for youth and has pioneered the field of gender-affirming care for transgender youth in Brooklyn.

Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, MPH, ANP-BC is a professor and certified Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner in the Division of Advanced Practice at Rutgers School of Nursing. He is also a practicing HIV primary care provider at Gotham Medical Group in New York City where he specializes in providing HIV prevention and treatment. He was the former director of the HIV specialty track at Columbia University School of Nursing and the immediate past President of the national Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. Dr. Kwong serves as an expert faculty member for CEI’s HIV Project ECHO, is on the advisory panel for the HIV-Age clinical guidelines group, and a member of ANAC’s HIV & Aging Expert Panel. He is certified as an HIV specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine.