Dr. Montaner is the Director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul’s Hospital (SPH), Co-Director of the Canadian HIV Trials Network and the incoming President-Elect of the International AIDS Society. He is also the Director of the AIDS research program and the immunodeficiency clinic at SPH. Dr. Montaner holds the Endowed Chair in AIDS Research at the University of British Columbia, the first initiative of its kind in Canada. In addition to his work at UBC and SPH, Dr. Montaner was also an AIDS National Health Research Scholar from 1987 to 1997. His past involvement in several international HIV/AIDS conferences has made Dr. Montaner the ideal choice to Co-Chair the Scientific Program at the XI International AIDS Conference, held in Vancouver in 1996.