Editorial introductions

Abstract

Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS was launched in 2006. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of HIV and AIDS are divided into nine sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Christopher PowerChristopher PowerChristopher Power, BSc, MD, FRCPC is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Alberta, Canada, holds a Canada Research Chair in Neurologic Infection and Immunity and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He received a BSc. (Hons.) from the University of Toronto and an M.D. from the University of Ottawa and subsequent training in medicine and neurology at McMaster University and the University of Western Ontario, Canada, respectively, with a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and the National Institutes of Health in neurovirology and neuroimmunology. Dr Power is an internationally recognized clinician-scientist, focused on the causes and potential treatments of neuroinflammatory diseases including Multiple Sclerosis and NeuroAIDS. Aside from directing the Laboratory for Neurologic Infection and Immunity, he is also an attending consultant in the University of Alberta HIV and MS Clinics together with (interim) Director of the University of Alberta MS Centre. He is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed publications, 20 book chapters with accumulative h index of 45. Bruce J. BrewBruce J. BrewBruce J. Brew is Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at the University of New South Wales and the University of Notre Dame, Australia and is on the staff at St Vincent's Hospital in the departments of Neurology and HIV. He is also the Director of the Applied Neurosciences Program and Peter Duncan Neurosciences Unit in St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research. He graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia, with Honours, joined the residency program at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney and completed his training in Neurology at St Vincent's Hospital. He then spent three years in New York Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, USA, working on the neurological aspects of HIV disease with Richard Price. Subsequently he returned to Sydney to take up his current positions at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, Australia. He has had a long standing interest in HIV neuropathogenesis particularly in relation to cognitive impairment at both clinical and basic science levels. He has designed and participated in numerous clinical trials related to HIV brain disease. He has been an invited participant in educational courses for the American Academy of Neurology and the World Congress of Neurology for several years. He has received research funding from governmental bodies in Australia (NHMRC) and USA (NIH), as well as industry. He sits on the editorial board of several journals and is a regular reviewer for AIDS, JAMA, Neurology and other journals. He has served on numerous advisory boards for pharmaceutical companies and governmental bodies nationally and internationally. He is on the CROI scientific committee and the Neurology substudy committee of INSIGHT. He has authored 330 papers and three textbooks including the single authored text HIV Neurology.