Dr. Marcelo H. Losso currently directs the Immunocompromised Service of the Hospital General de Agudos JM Ramos Mejía in Buenos Aires, he is an Independent Researcher of the Health Researcher Career at the Ministry of Health, GCBA, Principal Investigator responsible of the Research Area in Emerging Diseases, JM Ramos Mejía Hospital, Professor of the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Medicine and Director of CICAL (Coordination of Academic Clinical Research in Latin America). He received his medical degree with honors from the University of Buenos Aires Medical School. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the JM Ramos Mejía Hospital and continued his postgraduate training in HIV/AIDS at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Maryland, USA. Later, he organized a unit dedicated to general clinical care and clinical research on HIV infection in the hospital where he was trained, which he currently directs. During the last 20 years he has been dedicated to the development of networks for the implementation of academic clinical trials on HIV infection in Latin America, particularly in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Mexico. Dr. Losso was the Co-Director of one of the largest completed clinical trials in the treatment of HIV, the ESPRIT study; and participated in the main analysis and communication of the results of SMART and START, two of the most significant contributions to the knowledge about antiretroviral treatment and which are the basis of all available treatment guidelines. He has published more than 200 manuscripts in international peer-reviewed publications. He is currently a Member of the Scientific Committee of INSIGHT, Member of the Executive Committee of EuroSIDA and Fellow of the MRCT of Harvard University. As Leader of the HIV Service at Hospital General de Agudos JM Ramos Mejía and Director of CICAL, he has developed extensive experience in conducting and implementing clinical trials, and has been principal investigator for Argentina of a variety of projects, including a productive one international collaboration with the INSIGHT, HPTN, HVTN and IMPAACT networks of the NIH in the USA, the Kirby Institute in Australia and Eurocoord in the European Community. In the framework of the health crisis produced by COVID-19, his research effort has focused on managing the response to the pandemic at the JM Ramos Mejía Hospital. In this framework, it has obtained numerous subsidies that have allowed the inauguration of a physical plant for research on Emerging Diseases in that hospital, and to develop several prevention studies, including the TraSal project for incidence in health workers, the ENSEMBLE project for a vaccine against COVID -19 and other projects in definition of natural history, treatment and implementation. He has served as a member and Director of the Research Ethics Committee of the Ramos Mejía Hospital and was a member of the Central Committee of Research Ethics of the Ministry of Health of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

Myrian has a degree in nursing from the National University of Rosario. She worked as a nurse in the intensive care unit at the Clinic and Maternity Suizo Argentina, has experience in cardiovascular recovery. In addition, she worked as an Infection Control nurse for 22 years at the Argentine Institute of Diagnosis and Treatment, where she was responsible for the infection control program of the entire institution. She was secretary of the Argentine Association of Nurses in Infection Control, she served as coordinator of the First National Campaign for Hand Hygiene in 2011 (Ministry of Health of the Nation-ADECI). In addition, he has experience in quality and patient safety, process improvement, drafting, review of standards and procedures, training in teamwork (training in the TeamStepps model), tasks that he currently performs.

He is a Medical Doctor specialized in internal medicine. He has a specialization in Statistics for Health Science and in Pharmacology. He is a Professor of the University of Buenos Aires, and a Coordinator of the Clinical Pharmacology Committee of “Hospital General de Agudos J. M. Ramos Mejía”. With more than fourteen years of experience in clinical research and technical counseling in observational studies for OPS ONUSIDA and UNICEF, he is the leader of TB/HIV studies in CICAL.

Graduate in Sociology at the Social Sciences faculty of the UBA. Sofia is part of the data team and is in charge of entry, quality control and quality assurance of the data from the different clinical studies that we integrate.

Candelaria is part of the data team and is in charge of entry, quality control and quality assurance of the data from the different clinical studies that we integrate.

Clara studied at the Argentine Institute of Executive Secretaries. Clara performs administrative tasks in the different studies that we integrate. He receives study participants when they attend visits, she is in charge of contacting study participants to schedule visits and contacting potential participants.

Social communication bachelor's student at UNLaM. He currently performs the administrative tasks of the Immunocompromised service of the Ramos Mejía Hospital

Administrative Assistant for Clinical Operations
Descripcion: Cecilia Etchart studied at the Argentine Institute of Executive Secretaries. She performs administrative tasks in the central office of the IBIS foundation: Maintenance of regulatory files, preparation of personnel files and management and preparation of budgets for purchases of supplies for clinical research. Also she controls of the stock of supplies of the Foundation and the Hospital J. M. Ramos Mejía, request and control of calibration of medical equipment, etc.