Philip Bolduc, MD, FIDSA, has been elected chair of the HIV Medicine Association Board of Directors. HIVMA also announced the election of a new vice chair and five directors.
Dr. Bolduc, a professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, focuses on integrating HIV and viral hepatitis care into primary care, particularly in community health centers. He serves as principal investigator of the New England AIDS Education and Training Center and director of the HIV Program and Fellowship Program at the Family Health Center of Worcester in Massachusetts. He has served on the HIVMA Board of Directors since 2021.
“As chair, I am committed to working alongside my fellow Board members to expand access to health care and coverage for people with and vulnerable to HIV, while sustaining and strengthening a robust, diverse and culturally responsive HIV workforce,” Dr. Bolduc said in the announcement.
Under the new leadership, HIVMA will continue advancing priorities focused on expanding access to HIV prevention and care, strengthening the HIV workforce and promoting evidence-based care for underserved communities.
New board leadership
Nada A. Fadul, MD, FIDSA, was elected vice chair. Dr. Fadul is a professor of medicine and associate dean of faculty affairs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine in Omaha. She previously served as medical director of Nebraska's largest HIV clinic from 2019 to 2025 and has served on the HIVMA Board of Directors since 2023. Her work focuses on improving access to HIV care through telehealth, long-acting antiretroviral therapy, street medicine and emergency department HIV testing.
Five additional members were elected as directors:
Bismarck S. Bisono Garcia, MD, is an infectious diseases physician at Mayo Clinic's HIV clinic and an assistant professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine & Science in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Bisono Garcia has held several IDSA advocacy and leadership roles, including chair of the IDSA Fellows Community of Practice from 2024 to 2025. His priorities include expanding access to HIV prevention and care and strengthening advocacy for underserved communities.
Christopher Bositis, MD, is a professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and clinical director of the Ryan White-funded National Clinician Consultation Center. Dr. Bositis provides HIV primary care at San Francisco General Hospital's Ward 86 and previously chaired the HIVMA Ryan White Medical Providers Coalition Committee from 2020 to 2024. His work focuses on improving access to care for historically marginalized populations and addressing overlapping infectious diseases and substance use disorders.
Philip A. Chan, MD, MS, is a professor of medicine at Brown University and consultant medical director at the Rhode Island Department of Health. Dr. Chan also serves as chief medical officer at Open Door Health, a community-based clinic he helped establish in 2020. His work focuses on HIV prevention and care through clinical research, public health initiatives and community partnerships.
Philana Liang, PA-C, MPH, is a physician assistant at Washington University Infectious Disease Clinic in St. Louis and program manager at the St. Louis STI/HIV Prevention Training Center. Liang co-founded the National Consortium of Advanced Practice Providers in Sexual Health and serves on the HIVMA Workforce Advisory Group. Her priorities include expanding access to HIV care and prevention, strengthening the workforce and increasing participation among advanced practice providers.
Carlos S. Saldana, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and an HIV clinician at the Ponce de Leon Center in Atlanta. Dr. Saldana previously served as an HIV medical adviser for the Georgia Department of Public Health. His work focuses on expanding HIV prevention and care through bilingual peer navigation, telemedicine and community-based interventions, particularly for Latino and immigrant communities in the U.S. South.
The HIVMA Executive Committee also includes Immediate Past Chair Anna K. Person, MD, FIDSA; Chair-Elect Alice C. Thornton, MD, FIDSA; and HIVMA Representative to the IDSA Board Michelle S. Cespedes, MD, MS.
The following members remain on the board: Andrea Ciaranello, MD, MPH, FIDSA; Ellen Eaton, MD, FIDSA; Sheila Montalvo, PharmD; Sudha Nagalingham, MD, FACP, FIDSA; Nwora Lance Okeke, MD, MPH; Julia C. Rosebush, DO, FAAP, FPIDS; and Hussein Safa, MD.
The new board will help guide HIVMA's efforts to expand access to HIV prevention and care, strengthen the HIV workforce and advance equitable, evidence-based health care.