Phyllis Tien, MD

Dr. Tien is Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and Chief of the Infectious Diseases Division at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Her research program examines the mechanisms by which chronic viral infections (specifically HIV and HCV) and their associated metabolic and immune perturbations impact long term organ injury in adults. She has served in several leadership positions including Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS)/Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS) and the MWCCS Steering Committee. The MWCCS integrates two of the largest and longest running NIH-funded prospective cohorts of adult men and women with and at risk for HIV in the U.S. She also serves as Chair of the Inter-CFAR Collaboration on HIV Research in Women and previously served as Chair of the NIH AIDS Clinical Epidemiology Study Section. She was a member of the Department of Health and Human Services Antiretroviral Guidelines Panel, and is currently a member of the NIAID AIDS Research Study Section and the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel.