Beau Ances, MD, PhD
Marlon Bailey, PhD, MFA
HIP Seminars are designed to enhance mentoring and peer-to-peer connections among emerging HIV investigators, supporting their career development and helping them successfully obtain NIH funding.
Attendees who wish to attend in-person should come to the large conference room at the Northwest Tower on the WashU medical campus.
To receive a recurring Outlook invitation, email the D-CFAR Admin Core.
This month’s presentations:
The Clinical Care Continuum for Mental health in HIV - Beau Ances, MD, PhD, Daniel J Brennan MD Professor of Neurology at WashU
Our Families, Our Voices: An “Intraventive” Approach to Sexual Health for Black LGBT Communities - Marlon Bailey, PhD, MFA, professor at WashU.
Speaker Bios:
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Dr. Beau Ances is the Daniel J. Brennan MD Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs for the Department of Neurology at Washington University in Saint Louis. An eminent researcher and clinician, Dr. Ances has authored over 380 peer-reviewed publications, with his work being widely recognized and cited by major media outlets such as The Washington Post, Associated Press, Science, Time, and various PBS documentaries, including "Alzheimer’s Disease: Every Minute Counts."
Clinically, Dr. Ances provides comprehensive care to both inpatients and outpatients, specializing in neurodegenerative diseases, particularly focusing on individuals with HIV who experience cognitive impairment. His groundbreaking research was the first to differentiate the effects of HIV from those of Alzheimer's disease in individuals with HIV and has made significant strides in identifying markers of healthy brain aging in this population.
Dr. Ances is an influential figure in shaping clinical guidelines and has served on the recommendation committee for new diagnostic criteria for HIV-associated cognitive impairment. He has also chaired several workshops for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) addressing the diverse manifestations of cognitive impairment in persons with HIV. Consistently supported by NIH funding since 2008, Dr. Ances is the site Principal Investigator for the National NeuroHIV Tissue Consortium (NNTC), a critical resource that studies individuals with HIV before and after death, providing valuable tissue samples to the research community at large
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Marlon M Bailey is Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Professor of African and African American Studies at WashU. Marlon is a Black queer theorist and critical/performance ethnographer who studies Black LGBTQ cultural formations, sexual health, and HIV/AIDS prevention. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
He is a Black queer theorist and critical/performance ethnographer whose research focuses on Black LGBTQ cultural formations and HIV prevention and sexual health. Marlon is a member of the committee that co-authored the award-winning report, Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQ+ Populations, published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). This report won the 2021 Achievement Award from The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA). Marlon’s book, Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2013. In 2014, Butch Queens Up in Pumps won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize awarded by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Book Award in LGBT Studies.
Marlon has published widely on the Ballroom community, Black sexuality and sex, and HIV/AIDS prevention and sexual health.
Marlon’s current book manuscript in progress, Black Gay Sex, is an ethnographic examination of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on Black gay men’s sexuality and sex practices.
This is a free event, but registration is required.