Dushyantha Jayaweera

Dushyantha T. Jayaweera graduated from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, with the MD degree in 1977 and the MS degree in OBGYN in 1981. Subsequently, he completed the MRCOG (United Kingdom) in 1984. He joined the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami in 1992 and is currently a professor of clinical medicine. He completed a residency program at the Loyola and Hines VA program in Internal Medicine. He was awarded FRCP by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 2005. He has a Clinical Trials Unit at the Miller School of Medicine. He is in charge of the HCV/HIV coinfection clinic; he is also the physician-in-charge for HIV in HIV/Liver Transplant Program. He is the chairman of the University of Miami Medical Ethics Committee. He has received grant support from the National Institute of Health and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as Pharmaceutical Industry for HIV and hepatitis C research. He is the author of numerous journal articles and abstracts on HIV clinical trials, viral hepatitis, drug abuse, and AIDS-associated infections and their treatment. His research interests include HIV new drug development, drug abuse, and hepatitis C.