2012 HERO
Dr. Marcus A. Conant
Dermatologist and HIV/AIDS primary care physician
For his lifetime efforts in preventing and treating HIV/AIDS
Marcus A. Conant M.D. is an honored and respected pioneer, lecturer, physician, and outspoken advocate for people with HIV and AIDS. Among the first physicians to identify AIDS in 1981, he helped create one of the largest private AIDS clinics, was a founder of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and his work contributed to development of some of today’s top HIV medications. In 1989 he created the The Conant Foundation, a nonprofit education foundation that provides patients, their caregivers, and the community with educational tools and information regarding diagnosis, treatment, and management of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Dr. Conant and the foundation have contributed to more than two dozen clinical trials involving many of today’s leading HIV medications. He continues his strong, passionate and uncompromising demands to give hope to all people with AIDS through state-of-the-art treatment and the assurance they can live with dignity and respect.
The award will be presented by Dr. Donald P. Francis, executive director at Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases.
