Dr. Dushyantha T. Jayaweera was appointed as the Executive Dean for Research, Research Education, and Innovation Medicine for the Miller School of Medicine. He was the Associate Vice Provost for Human Subject Protection prior to this appointment. Dr. Jayaweera has over 20 years of experience in HIV and serves as the Director for the HIV/HCV co-infection clinic. He has received grant support from the National Institutes of Drug Abuse, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Jayaweera has led and continues to lead numerous industry-funded trials HIV and HIV/HCV coinfection. Additionally, he serves the larger South Florida community as an AIDS educator, and is a senior faculty member of the AIDS.