Joseph J. Eron, Jr., MD Professor of Medicine University of North Carolina School of Medicine Director, AIDS Clinical Trials Unit Associate Director, Clinical Research Unit University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Dr. Eron is a Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been the Director of the UNC AIDS Clinical Trials Unit for 4 years and was the Associate Director for seven years prior to becoming the Director. He is also the Director of the UNC Center for AIDS Research Clinical Core and the Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center at UNC. Dr. Eron received his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and completed his Infectious Diseases training under Martin Hirsch MD at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research activities included the design and implementation of antiretroviral treatment trials, the study of Acute HIV Infection and the implementation of an observational HIV Clinical/Research database. Dr. Eron an ex officio member of the Optimization of Antiretroviral Therapy (OpART) Committee of the ACTG which aims to develop new treatment strategies to limit the replication of HIV-1, further understand HIV-1 resistance to antiretroviral therapy and optimize use of resistance assays, develop and validate laboratory techniques, and improve and optimize study design