2004 HIV Medicine Association Award Recipients

The HIV Medicine Association offers awards to individuals to honor outstanding achievements in the field of HIV/AIDS.  Award recipients have made significant contributions to HIV knowledge and the provision of quality HIV care.  The awards were presented during ceremonies at the 42nd Annual Meeting of IDSA in Boston.

HIV Research Award
This award recognizes an HIVMA member who has made outstanding contributions to HIV medicine in clinical or basic research.  Recipients must be actively engaged in HIV research, must be junior to mid-career in ranking, and must not have achieved the rank of professor or equivalent at their institution.  This award is based on innovation and originality and requires demonstration of significant independent research and productivity.

Diane Havlir, MD, was awarded the 2004 HIV Research Award by the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) during a ceremony on October 2, 2004 at IDSA’s Annual Meeting in Boston.  Dr. Havlir is professor of medicine, chief of the Positive Health Program (formerly the Division of AIDS), and principal investigator for the Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group at the University of California, San Francisco.

HIV Clinical Education Award
This award recognizes an HIVMA member who has demonstrated significant achievement in the area of HIV clinical care and provider education.  Significant achievement is based on contributions to the acquisition and dissemination of information on HIV disease that transcend a single institution. 

Harold Henderson, MD, was awarded the 2004 HIV Clinician-Educator Award by the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) during a ceremony on October 2, 2004 at IDSA’s Annual Meeting in Boston.  Dr. Henderson is professor of medicine and director of Infectious Diseases Clinics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, co-director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Jackson, and principal investigator at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Delta Region AIDS Educational Training Center.