"HIV, Then and Now"

The Stony Brook Provost’s Lecture Series features talks by the university's SUNY Distinguished Academy faculty, highlighting their areas of deep expertise. Dr. Sharon Nachman delivered a talk, "HIV, Then and Now" on April 4, 2024.

Nachman is SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Chief of the Division of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital. She is also the Vice Dean for Research at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook and directs the Office of Clinical Trials at the institution. She received her Bachelor’s from Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education and later her MD from Stony Brook University. She is an international leader in the area of pediatric infectious disease and the treatment of children with AIDS, flu and measles. She has been the principal investigator of more
than 30 clinical trials of promising medicine for patients treated at Stony Brook University Hospital and conducted international trials in the areas of new vaccines, Lyme disease, and AIDS.