Sharon Walmsley, CM, MD, FRCPC

Sharon Walmsley, MD, is the Director of the Immunodeficiency Clinic, Toronto Hospital, University Health Network and a Professor, University of Toronto Department of Medicine. As of October 2022 she is the inaugural Family Speck Chair in emerging infectious diseases. She is a Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and the Co- Chair of the CIHR- Canadian HIV Trials Network. She is actively involved in the design, conduct and analysis of many clinical trials, including trials in HIV therapy; prophylaxis and treatment of opportunistic infections, and management of the complications of treatment. She has had a longstanding and strong interest in gender differences in HIV in women and has been an advocate of gender specific analysis of clinical trials of antiretroviral therapy. More recently she has developed clinical trials assessing the COVID vaccines in an elderly population and an antiviral study for Monkeypox. She holds numerous peer-reviewed publications and research awards.  In June 2017, she was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada for contributions in HIV Research especially related to advancing therapy for women, and mentoring young female investigators. In 2021 she was elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences for her research related to HIV. In 2022, she received the YWCA women of distinction award for her work with women living with HIV.