Carlos Del Rio, MD

Carlos del Rio, MD is the Hubert professor and chair of the Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health and professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine . He is also principal investigator and co-director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and co-PI of the Emory-CDC HIV clinical trials unit. Dr. del Rio is a native of Mexico where he attended medical school at Universidad La Salle, graduating in 1983. He did his internal medicine and infectious diseases residencies at Emory University. In 1989 he returned to Mexico where he was executive director of the National AIDS Council of Mexico (CONASIDA, the Federal agency of the Mexican Government responsible for AIDS Policy throughout Mexico), from 1992 through 1996. In November of 1996 he returned to Emory where he has been involved in teaching and research. Dr. del Rio was chief of the Emory Medical Service at Grady Memorial Hospital from 2001 - 2009 and is currently the interim Executive Associate Dean for Emory at Grady. His research interests include the prevention and treatment of HIV infection as well as strategies to improve the early diagnosis of HIV, access to care and compliance with antiretrovirals. Dr. del Rio is a member of the board of the IAS-USA, member of the UNAIDS Scientific Technical Advisory Committee and Chair of the PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board. He is associate editor for clinical infectious diseases and senior editor for HIV for NEJM Journal Watch Infectious Diseases as well as an editorial board member of Global Public Health, Journal of AIDS and Women, Children & HIV. He has co-authored 5 books, 30 book chapters, and over 350 scientific papers.