Dr. Cal Cohen is research director of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and Community Research Initiative of New England in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he works as an HIV clinical management consultant and internist at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

Dr. Cohen was co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of amfAR community-based clinical trials network, and served as co-principal investigator of the Harvard/BCH AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, AIDS Clinical Trials Group. He holds appointments at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital, both in Boston, Mass.

In addition to caring for HIV-infected patients and directing clinical research at a large HIV community-based research site, Dr. Cohen is actively involved in evaluating new antiretroviral therapies, the durability and longevity of the benefits from such therapies and issues regarding compliance and adherence.

Disclosures

Dr. Cohen has served as a consultant to or has received honoraria or research support from Abbott Laboratories, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline and Tibotec.