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Tulane University.
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Michael Saag
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Career
He holds the Jim Straley Chair in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Research, is Director of the Division of Infectious Disease and of the William C. Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, and Director of the Center for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Research. In 2009 Saag was elected chairman of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Saag appeared in the 2001 Public Broadcasting Service documentary Evolution describing how Human Immunodeficiency Virus can evolve to newer drug-resistant strains in the course of hours.
He is co-author of a 2007 textbook, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Therapy and editor of the Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy and the Sanford Guide to Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Therapy.
On April 14, 2014 Saag released his first book Positive published by Greenleaf Book Group, Limited Liability Company.
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He is also the founder of the 1917 Clinic, a comprehensive Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome treatment and research center at UAB Saag is a frequent lecturer at Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome conferences around the world and is credited with performing pioneering clinical trials for several antiretroviral drugs now in common use for Human Immunodeficiency Virus treatment and for first demonstrating the clinical value of "viral-load testing" in Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome treatment.
