John G. Bartlett, MD, is Stanhope Bayne Jones Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  He is an internationally renowned authority on AIDS and other infectious diseases, and received the prestigious Maxwell Finland Award from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases in 2005.  Dr. Bartlett was the first to direct clinical trials, in Baltimore, of new treatments that prevent HIV from replicating, and he pioneered the development of dedicated in-patient and out-patient medical care for HIV-infected patients.  He co-chaired the national committee that drafted the first and all subsequent CDC treatment guidelines for HIV-infected patients, and he counsels numerous medical societies and health ministries around the world on infectious diseases in general and AIDS specifically.