Donald Abrams, MD, has been a leader in the effort to develop new treatments for HIV since the disease first emerged.  Most notably, he was a pioneer in the introduction of community-based clinical trials for AIDS therapies as Chairman of the San Francisco Community Consortium, an association of HIV healthcare providers established in 1985.  He was Principal Investigator of the Consortium’s Terry Beirn Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA) and was one of the original Investigators in the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG).  A founding member of the Antiviral Advisory Committee of the Food & Drug Administration, Dr. Abrams was also an early member of amfAR’s Scientific Advisory Committee and a founding Editor of the HIV/AIDS Treatment Directory.  He has served as Assistant Director of the AIDS program at San Francisco General Hospital and is a past President of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association.