Cecilia Shikuma, MD

Cecilia M. Shikuma, MD is Director of the Hawaiʻi Center for AIDS, a University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents’ approved Center of Excellence for HIV research, training and care. She is also Professor of Medicine and the Edwin C. Cadman Endowed Chair, JABSOM, University of Hawaiʻi – Mānoa (UHM). She received both her BS and MD from UHM, and completed her Infectious Disease fellowship at the Los Angeles County (LAC) – University of Southern California (USC) Medical Center. She is the recipient of numerous HIV-related research grants from the National Institute of Health to research chronic, non-infectious complications of HIV including lipodystrophy, cardiovascular disease, peripheral neuropathy and HIV-associated dementia.

Bruce Shiramizu, MD

Dr. Bruce Shiramizu, Professor in the Departments of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology & Pharmacology; and Pediatrics at JABSOM, is a physician in the Clint Spencer Clinic (CSC). He received his MD from the University of Utah and trained at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. He works with the other CSC physicians and physicians from the community in the anal cancer screening program. He oversees a clinical translational laboratory at JABSOM in research focused on HIV-associated diseases and complications.

Dominic Chow, MD, PhD, MPH

He is the Medical Director of the Clint Spencer Clinic, and a Co-Investigator at the Hawaii Center For AIDS. He joined the JABSOM faculty in 2000 as an investigator at the Hawaii Center For AIDS. He completed his PhD in Clinical Research at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dr. Chow’s research and academic interests include the complications of HIV and antiretroviral therapy on the autonomic nervous system, cardiovascular system, glucose, and liver metabolism. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and General Pediatrics, and certified in HIV Medicine through the American Academy of HIV Medicine.

Louie Mar Gangcuangco, MD, MSc

Dr. Louie Mar Gangcuangco is an HIV specialist certified by the American Academy of HIV Medicine and board certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He completed his residency training in Preventive Medicine and Public Health at Griffin Hospital, a teaching affiliate of the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Gangcuangco was two years accelerated in college and became a licensed physician in the Philippines at age 23 years after graduating from the highly competitive Integrated Liberal Arts and Medicine (Intarmed) program of the University of the Philippines. He earned his master’s degree in Tropical Medicine from the University of Hawaii and a second master’s degree in Clinical Trials from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He completed the Climate Change and Health certificate course of the Yale School of Public Health. Dr. Gangcuangco served as a research fellow for the Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN) where he studied opportunistic infections among people living with HIV in Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Thailand. He subsequently trained in Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Health-Bridgeport Hospital. In November 2017, recognizing Dr. Gangcuangco’s contributions to uplifting HIV care and research in the Philippines, the Philippine government’s Department of Science and Technology conferred to Dr. Gangcuangco the prestigious distinction of a Balik (Returning) Scientist. Dr. Gangcuangco’s research works are focused on the chronic complications of HIV.

Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louie-Mar-Gangcuangco

Iain MacPherson, PhD

Iain MacPherson received his BSc from Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada and went on to earn his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. MacPherson was post-doctoral fellow at Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) and Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich, Germany) before joining as adjunct faculty at University of Hawaiʻi in 2017. He became an assistant professor in 2018. His research interests are centered around aptamers, short pieces of RNA and DNA that have antibody-like binding function, and their use in HIV and cancer research.