Corklin R. Steinhart, M.D., Ph.D.

Corklin R. Steinhart, M.D., Ph.D., is the Medical Director of the Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Centers and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He has been in private practice caring for HIV-infected persons since 1989 and has been a principal investigator in many clinical trials of new HIV therapies.

Dr. Steinhart's work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as AIDS Patient Care and STD's, the International Journal of STD and AIDS and The American Journal of Physiology. He lectures extensively on all aspects of HIV/AIDS, both internationally and throughout the U.S.

Dr. Steinhart received his M.D. from the University of South Florida College of Medicine and holds a Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Physiology from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in secondary education from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. Prior to working with the Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Centers, Dr. Steinhart was the Founding Medical Director of Special Immunology Services at Mercy Hospital in Miami, Fla.

Dr. Steinhart is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and is a member of the HIV Medical Association of the Infectious Disease Society of America. He is a certified HIV specialist with the American Academy of HIV Medicine.

Dr. Steinhart's research is, or has been, funded by Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Gilead Sciences, Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, NeurogesX, Inc. and Tibotec BVBA. He has also served on the advisory boards and speakers' bureaus of Gilead, Glaxo, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., Serono Laboratories, Inc., Tibotec, URRMA Biopharma, Inc., Virco and ViroLogic, Inc.