Stephen Karpiak PhD is the Senior Director for Research at the ACRIA Center on HIV & Aging at GMHC. After 25 years of NIH/NSF funded research in Neuroscience and Immunology at Columbia U. Medical School he next engaged community-based HIV work in Phoenix, where he was the Executive Director of an agency providing congregate housing for the homeless with HIV/AIDS. Returning to NYC, he was the Executive Director of Pride Senior Network, which focused on aging LGBT issues and later joined ACRIA (AIDS Community Research Initiative of America) in 2002. There he launched ROAH (Research on Older Adults with HIV) and supervised clinical trials for HIV drugs. His research which was recognized by a special award from the US Surgeon General resulted in bringing HIV and Aging onto radar screens resulting in the establishment of an HIV and Aging Awareness Day, the White House Conference on HIV and Aging, and US Congress and Senate Hearings. He is a member of the Einstein-Rockefeller-Hunter Center for AIDS Research, the HIV-AGE initiative of the American Academy of HIV Medicine and the American Geriatrics Society, and, a member of the UN Aging Committee. Stephen is on faculty at NYU Nursing and has published over 150 peer reviewed scientific papers. He is now Co-PI of ROAH 2.0, a multisite needs assessment of older adults with HIV in the USA in a spectrum of communities which include (NYC, rural upstate NY, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland). Most recently he received 3 years of funding to establish a web-based National HIV and Aging Resource Center.
