Professor William A. Blattner, MD is the Co-Founder and Associate Director of the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) and Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine. He serves as an advisor to the NIH (Office of AIDS Research), the CDC (Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) Surveillance, Research, and HIV Prevention Programs), the US Military (Chairman, HIV Review Panel, Military Infectious Disease Research Program), and the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (HIV/AIDS Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Expert Panel). Dr. Blattner is also a grant reviewer for NIH, Doris Duke Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  

Dr. Blattner served as Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. His pioneering HIV research was initiated in 1981 during his 22 year tenure in the Public Health Service at the National Cancer Institute. He also chairs the Baltimore City Commission on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment.  As the scientific leader of the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Dr. Blattner is directly involved in the research activities of the Division's scientists and their science, in mentoring their career development as independent academic investigators, and in building structures to support their research. Over his career Dr. Blattner has integrated laboratory science into his epidemiological research which continues to be a major focus. His research entails the role of HIV in inducing neurocognitive impairment and its impacts on program outcomes and characterizing core transmission groups for HIV and TB through epidemiological studies of marginalized most at risk groups such as commercial sex workers.  

Dr. Blattner graduated from Washington University School of Medicine, interned at Strong Memorial Hospital, completed residencies at the New York Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute and did his oncology training at NCI in Bethesda. He has currently authored over 400 peer reviewed publications, many targeting the international dimensions of HIV/AIDS.