Acknowledgements
We wish to acknowledge the following for their development of the content of
the HIV/Adhere A-CASI and material on this web site:
Please note: Product endorsement is not implied.
David Bangsberg, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco.
He directs the Epidemiology and Preventions Interventions Center,
an infectious disease epidemiology research unit at San Francisco General Hospital,
and is a primary care physician for HIV positive patients in the Ward 86 Clinic at SFGH. He
led the research of our phase I study.
Allen Gifford, MD, Associate Director of Center for Health Quality Outcomes and Economic Research,
co-Research Coordinator of QUERI HIV/Hepatitis, Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health
and Medicine, and leads the Center’s Implementation-Dissemination initiative. He led the
research of our phase II study, and authored the Introduction Page.
Margaret A. Chesney, Ph.D., Deputy Directory, Division of Extramural Research and Training,
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She was
previously co-director of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the School of
Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and director of the behavioral medicine
and epidemiology core of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research.
Frederick (Rick) Hecht, MD, Research Director of the Osher Center for Integrative
Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is co-director of the UCSF Center
for AIDS Research Behavioral and Epidemiology core, and is a board member of the HIV Medicine Association.
Amy Bronstone, Ph.D., American Medical Writers Association; Council of Science Editors. She holds a
doctorate in clinical psychology, with eleven years post-doctoral writing/editing experience.
Rocky Schnaath, Spanish language translation. Ms. Schnaath has extensive experience is
English/Spanish medical tranlation.
Roger Hofmann, West Portal Software Corporation, system architect.
HIV/Adhere was developed with the CASIC Builder™ software program.