Paul Sax is Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A past Editor-in-Chief of NEJM Journal Watch HIV/AIDS, he left that position in 2014 to assume that role for Open Forum Infectious Diseases. He is the HIV section editor for UpToDate, and is actively involved in HIV research, clinical practice, and teaching. Dr. Sax is the Associate Program Director for the Mass General Brigham fellowship in Infectious Diseases, is on the core faculty of the International Antiviral Society – USA, and teaches regularly on HIV and infectious diseases locally, nationally, and internationally. In addition to his clinical practice and teaching, Dr. Sax’s ongoing areas of research include clinical trials of antiretroviral therapies, cost-effectiveness of management strategies for HIV, and toxicity of antiretroviral therapy. He is presently the principal investigator at the BWH AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, and is a member of the Cost-Effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications (CEPAC) Research Group.
Paul lives in Brookline with his wife, Carolyn — a pediatrician at Hyde Park Pediatrics — and they have two children. Paul knew he was destined to become an Infectious Diseases specialist when, in the early 1980s, he found everything he heard in medical school about the newly identified disease AIDS absolutely fascinating — and also sometimes caught himself daydreaming about cephalosporins. He can be seen riding his bicycle to work down Longwood Avenue, even in the dead of winter, and has continued to love Boston since moving here more than 30 years ago, despite remaining an ardent fan of the New York Yankees.
Here is more about Paul, including his disclosure statement.
I’m really excited about reading your posts.
-future ID specialist 🙂
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Done!
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Dear Dr Paul,
I am so delighted to have changed upon your blog. Your enthusiasm about ID is really infectious.
I am myself an ID practicing doctor from India.
Looking forward to sometime associate with you.
Thanks and regards.
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Dear Dr. Sax,
I am a medical student in Philadelphia and would like to be signed up for your blog, please?
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Done! Look for a confirmation email soon.
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I’m traveling to Vegas next month. How do you feel about domestic flights and Vegas?
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I am a pediatrician at MGH-Chelsea and have enjoyed reading your pieces via Journal Watch for many years. I was wondering if you could speak to school testing as this is a highly discussed topic in every circle that I touch. In areas where the prevalence is already low, what does weekly or every other weekly testing achieve. For example, in a school with 500 staff and students whom are all divided into pods of no more than 25 with a community prevalence of less than 4 per 100,000, what is the risk that a person would be exposed to CV19 in the first place and how much would weekly surveillance testing decrease that risk. The tests are about $100 a person. Does screening decrease the risk enough to justify the expense? Also, curious about your thoughts on where these tests are being employed – often private schools or well resources communities – should we be saving these resources for higher risk communities?
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Dear dr. Sax,
I am a resident ID in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
I read your blog with interest, could I be signed up? Thanks!
All the best,
Pim
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Hello Dr Sax, I would like to be signed up for your posts/blogs please. I’m a Preventive Medicine doc. Greatly appreciate your informed/evidence-based and experienced voice, as well as sense of humor – all so needed esp in these times. Thank you so very much.
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I’m really excited about reading your posts.
I would like to sign up, please.
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Dr. Sax, I greatly appreciate your insights and posts in Journal Watch. It is an education in science, infectious disease and humanism. Thank you.
Regarding your loss of Louie, all dog lovers empathize. When the time is right, I encourage you to read Eugene O’Neill‘s book. The last will and testament of a very distinguished dog. It will bring more tears and wonderful feelings at the same time. Bruce Tofias.
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