JULIAN FALUTZ, M.D.
Montreal General Hospital
Montreal, Canada
Biography
Dr. Falutz is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University and Assistant Physician at Montreal General Hospital. For more than a decade, Dr. Falutz has been involved in HIV/AIDS research, presenting and publishing both nationally and internationally on a variety of topics.
DONALD P. KOTLER, M.D.
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
New York, NY, USA
Biography
Dr. Kotler is Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and is the Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Disease at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. He earned his medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Donald P. Kotler, MD is an investigator in the fields of nutritional and gastrointestinal disease. A pioneer in the study of the AIDS wasting syndrome, Dr. Kotler has concentrated on the study of body composition in order to define the characteristics of malnutrition in HIV infection and other diseases, as well as strategies to reverse the wasting process. He has been the Principal investigator on single site and mult-center studies of nutritional therapies for HIV-associated malnutrition. In addition, Dr. Kotler has studied the opportunistic enteric complications of AIDS as well as the role of HIV as an enteric pathogen. More recently, he has studied the body composition adn metabolic abnormalities, termed lipodystrophy, that occur in HIV-infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy, and is applying his knowledge and laboratory techniques to the study of chronic liver disease. Dr. Kotler has worked collaboratively with a number of investigators at the National Institutes of Health and other research organizations. He has served as a mentor for three doctoral candidates and many GI fellows. He has worked with several national and international groups including the International AIDS Society-USA, NIH Office of AIDS Research Planning Committees, the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care and others. He is Vice President of the Board of Directors of ACRIA, a Trustee of the Royal S. Marks Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for the Study of Wilson's Disease, and a member of the Medical Advisory Board fo the WIlson's Disease Association of America.
ABBY SHEVITZ, M.D., M.P.H.
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA, USA
Biography
Dr. Shevitz is Assistant Professor with the Department of Community Health at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is also an associate staff member at the New England Medical Center's Division of Geographic Medicine/Infectious Disease. She has published several chapters in Clinical Manual for Care of the Adult Patient with HIV Infection (publisher: ADLB Publications) and other books on caring for HIV patients.
CHRISTINE A. WANKE, M.D.
Tufts University
Boston, MA, USA
Biography
Dr. Wanke is Associate Professor with the Department of Community Health and Medicine at Tufts University Medical School. She is an infectious disease specialist and has been involved in clinical and basic research on the impact of diarrheal disease and nutrition on individuals infected with HIV.
