Members of the Delegation
Nov 15th, 2007 by Pat Daoust
Lissy and Sarah have been telling you about what the Health Action AIDS delegation has been doing. The delegation includes Physicians for Human Rights staff, but it is also made up of three health professional members of the Health Action AIDS Campaign. In this post, I’d like to give you a brief introduction to the health professionals who have come from the US to be part of this delegation.
Suzanne Jed, MSN, APRN-BC is an Instructor in clinical Family Medicine at the University of Southern California. She currently provides care to HIV-infected adult and pediatric patients at the Maternal, Child, and Adolescent/Adult Virology and Infectious Disease Clinic and is Program Development Director for the USC Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center. Born in San Jose, Costa Rica, Suzanne is a native Spanish speaker. She relocated to the United States to pursue her nursing education. A graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, she practiced family medicine for five years prior to transitioning into the field of HIV/AIDS care and education. She has traveled extensively and has provided training and mentoring in HIV/AIDS nursing in Ethiopia.
Mark Rolfe, MD is a family medicine practitioner with a special interest in HIV medicine. He established his practice in this area in 2001, and treats over 100 adults with HIV in rural Maine. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and board certified in HIV medicine by the American Academy of HIV Medicine.
Christopher Shaw, RN is an HIV/AIDS certified nurse in the Infectious Disease Department at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Christopher has been working in the HIV field since 1985, when he cared for patients in a South Bronx hospital and a hospice in Greenwich Village. Among many projects, he has helped set up HIV treatment sites in South Africa, educated health workers about treatment in Ethiopia, and co-founded “Sibusiso” (a Zulu word meaning blessing) a non-profit organization based in Boston that partners with HIV programs in the KZN and the Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa to support health care workers.
Pat Daoust, MSN, RN is Campaign Director of the Physicians for Human Rights Health Action AIDS Campaign.