Prof. William Powderly

Specialty
Infectious Diseases

Phone
01 716 6609

Email
head.smms@ucd.ie

Qualifications
MB BCH BAO (UCD); MD (UCD); FRCPI; FIDSA

Training

Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA, (1983-87).

Achievements

• Dean of Medicine and Head of the School of Medicine and Medical Science at University College Dublin.
• Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at UCD and the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Until July 2004
• Professor of Medicine (and co-chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, USA .
• Actively involved in HIV-related clinical research for over twenty-five years and while in the USA held many leadership roles in the US Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group, including Vice-Chair of the Group and chair of its Scientific Steering Committee.
• Has been a member of numerous Advisory groups for the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA.
• First Chairman of the HIV Medicine Association in the USA.
• Widely published in Infectious Diseases (especially HIV and AIDS) with over 370 original articles or book chapters.
• Together with Prof. Jonathan Cohen, Dean of the School of Medicine at Brighton and Sussex in the UK, edits a major international textbook in Infectious Diseases.