Professional Activities

Postgraduate Training

Residency	Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University. Intern, Junior & Senior Resident (Miriam Hospital) in Internal Medicine, 1993-1996
Residency	Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University Chief Resident Physician (Miriam Hospital), 1996-1997
Fellowship	The Rockefeller University, New York, New York Clinical Scholar 1997-1999
Fellowship	Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, The Rockefeller University New York, New York Post Doctoral Fellow 1997-2001

Postgraduate Honors And Awards

1994 and 1995	American College of Physicians Finalist, Abstract Competition, Rhode Island Chapter
1994	American Federation for Clinical Research Trainee Investigator Award for Excellence in Clinical Research
1994-1997	American Federation for Clinical Research Trainee Investigator Award for Excellence in Clinical Research
1996	American College of Physicians Finalist, Abstract Competition, Rhode Island Chapter
2000-2002	Daland Fellowship in Clinical Investigation The American Philosophical Society
2000-2005	National Institutes of Health, Career Development Award
2001-2006	Clinical Scientist Development Award Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
2002	Charles Culpepper Biomedical Pilot Initiative Rockefeller Brothers Fund
2003	Junior Physician Scientist Award American Federation for Medical Research
2005	Independent Investigator Award, COBRE Center  for Cancer Research Development, RIH
2006	Bruce Selya Award for Research Excellence, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
2007	Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Academic Appointments

1996-1997	Instructor in Medicine Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island
2001-2007	Assistant Professor of Medicine Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island
2007-present	Associate Professor of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island

Other Appointments

2003-present:	Ad hoc reviewer of investigator initiated grants for: Medical Research Council of South Africa (2005) NIH Microbicide Innovation Program (2006) NIH ADDT study section (2006,2007) Lifespan/Brown/Tufts CFAR pilot project applications (2005-present) Gene therapy programs, The Netherlands (2003-present) Health Research Board, Ireland (2007-present) NIH ZAl1-TP-M-J1: Cooperative Research Partnerships for Biodefense (2007) NIH ZAl1-TP-M-J2: Cooperative Research Partnerships for Biodefense (2007) NIH ZAL1 TJP-AJ11: HIV Vaccine Research and Design (HIVRAD) Program Review (2007-present) NIH ZAI1 MMT-M J2: Cooperative Research Partnership for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases SEP4 (2008) NIH ZAI1-RRS-A-J1; Special Emphasis Panel, Mechanisms and Prevention of sexual transmission of HIV/SIV (2010) NIH Special Emphasis Panel: Martin Delaney Collaboratory (2011) NIHZAI1-RB-A-J1; Special Emphasis Panel: Beyond HAART: Innovative Therapies to Control HIV-1 (2011) NIH Special Emphasis Panel: ZAI1-M-RWM NIAID Loan Repayment Program (2012) NIH Limited Competition - Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS-V) (U01) (2012) NIH ZRG1 AARR-K(04); Special Emphasis Panel (2012) Reviewer, ZAI1 BP-A (S1) Leadership Group for a Clinical Research Network on HIV/ AIDS & HIV-associated Infections in Pediatric & Maternal Populations (2013) Reviewer, ADDTAIDS Discovery and Development of Therapeutics Study Section (2013, 2014) Reviewer, ZRG1 ADDT-K (02) M (2013) Reviewer, ZAI1 MM-M (S1) 1 Loan Repayment Program (LRP) (2013) Reviewer, ZAI1 BP-A (S1) 1 Leadership Group for a Clinical Research Network on HIV/ AIDS & HIV-associated Infections in Pediatric & Maternal Populations (2013) 05 ZDA1 JXR-G (13) R Extracellular Vesicles in HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse (R01, R21) (2015)
2004	Reviewer, World Health Organization Guidelines for HIV Diagnosis and Monitoring of Antiretroviral Therapy
2000-present	Referee for Lancet, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of AIDS, Molecular Therapy,PLoS journals, Exp Hematology
2012	Reviewer, AIDS Vaccine 2012
2013-present	Reviewer, RI-INBRE Scientific Executive Committee
2015-present	Member, Board of Directors, University Medicine Foundation (physician practice plan).

University Committees

1998-2000	Rockefeller University Hospital GCRC Advisory Committee
2005-present	Associate Member, Pathobiology Graduate Program, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
2005-present	Executive Committee, Lifespan/Brown/Tufts Center for AIDS Research
2005-2009	Steering Committee, COBRE Center for Stem Cell Biology, Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island
2011-present	Member, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Lifespan
2013-present	Member, EAC, RI INBRE Network
2014-present	Member, NIH-COBRE/INBRE Symposium Sub-Committee, Lifespan

Membership In Societies

September, 1997-present	Diplomat, American Board of Internal Medicine
January, 2012	American Academy of HIV-1 Medicine

Invited Presentations

March 2003	“Antiviral RNAi,” Clinical Research 2003, American Federation for Medical Research, Baltimore, Maryland
November 2003	“HIV-1 specific RNAi,” Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
September 2004	“RNA interference,” Rockefeller University, New York, New York
June 2005	“Engineering RNA interference in vivo,” Controlled Release Society, Miami, Florida
September 2005	“Microbicidal potential of RNAi,” University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
October 2005	“Antiviral RNAi”, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Massachusetts
April 2006	“siRNA microbicides,” Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York
December 2006	“Antiviral RNAi,” West Bengal University, Calcutta, India
November 2007	“Small RNA in health and disease,” Bruce M. Selya Lecture, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
February 2008	“Anti-HIV Gene Silencing,” Microbicides 2008, New Delhi, India
June 2010	“A holistic approach to Cancer,” Partnership to reduce cancer in Rhode Island, Warwick, Rhode Island
May 2011	“How Drosha Gets Into the Nucleus,” Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
July 2011	“Virology and Pathogenesis: Why do HIV-infected people get AIDS,” AIDS 101, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
January 2012	“Proteomic Correlates of HIV-1 Progression,” YRG CARE, Chennai, India
February 2012	“The Ethics of Clinical Trials,” School of Public Health, Cambodia
January 2012	“HIV treatment as prevention-breakthrough of the year 2011,” Chennai ART Symposium, Session Co-chair Chennai, India
January  2012	“Proteomics correlates of HIV-1 progression,” HIV Science 2012, Chennai, India
January 2012	“Ethics of clinical trials,” National Ethics Symposium, Phnom Penh School of Public Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
April 2012	“Reverse Proteomic Approaches in HIV-1 Research,” Noguchi Institute, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
May 2012	“SLBP1 and HIV-1 pathogenesis,” Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana
September 2012	“Reverse Proteomics in the Clinic,” Pathology Research Seminar, Lifespan/Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
January 2014	“Histone metabolism and HIV-1 pathogenesis”. YRG CARE, Chennai, India during International Science Symposium on HIV