Faculty

Host and Case Discussions
John G. Bartlett, MD

John Bartlett is Chief, Division of Infectious Disease at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University Hospital. A long-term participant in the battle against HIV and AIDS, Dr. Bartlett is widely regarded as a "clinician's clinician," blending extensive scientific knowledge and clinical experience with a deep commitment to his patients and students. He is noted for his teaching abilities and clinical insights, and is in great demand as a lecturer and consultant. It's a great honor to have Dr. Bartlett as host and discussant for this program.

Lecturer and Patient Counseling Feedback
Joyce Anastasi, RN, PhD
Director, Center for AIDS Research,
Columbia University School of Nursing

Dr. Anastasi began working with HIV/AIDS patients early in the 1980's and was among the first clinical nurse specialists in HIV/AIDS in the nation. Dr. Anastasi later designed and established one of the first graduate programs in HIV. She continues to teach this curriculum, which includes both didactic and clinical experiences. Her curriculum was incorporated into a joint project titled, "HIV/AIDS: An Interactive Curriculum for Health Sciences" developed by Columbia University School of Nursing and Dartmouth's Interactive Media Laboratory, for which Dr. Anastasi was a chief advisor and principal investigator. Dr. Anastasi presently directs the Center for AIDS Research and conducts research on symptom management and HIV, funded by NIH/NINR.

Lecturer and Patient Management Feedback
Jay Dobkin, MD
Director, AIDS Program, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

Jay Dobkin heads the AIDS Center at Presbyterian Medical Center and is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City. A specialist on infectious diseases with over a decade of experience managing HIV infection, his practice serves a large and very diverse patient population. Dr. Dobkin has been extremely active in educating health professionals, including participation in the development of computer-based learning programs; he was a medical advisor during production of HIV/AIDS: An Interactive Curriculum for Health Sciences. He was principal investigator for the Columbia-Presbyterian AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, National Institutes of Health.

Pediatric Case Discussion
John C. Modlin, MD

John Modlin is Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School. He is also a member of the Infectious Disease Section and Medical Director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Modlin has recently stepped down from the FDA Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee, where he served as Chair during the final year of his term. He is currently a member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Dr. Modlin has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in the medical literature. His research interests include perinatal viral infections, mechanisms of enterovirus infections, and poliovirus immunization.

Designed, Directed, and Produced by
Joseph V. Henderson, MD

Joe Henderson directs the Interactive Media Laboratory at Dartmouth Medical School. Having developed award-winning interactive media programs for over a decade, Dr. Henderson is well known as a medical educator with a firm grasp of technology-based learning and its power to involve and inform. His goal is to provide for learning experiences that are intellectually and emotionally stimulating, enjoyable, and, in the best of cases, profound. He thinks that with this Virtual Clinic program he and his development team (see credits) "have come pretty close to achieving those goals."