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Dr. Flanigan is Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and at the Lifespan Academic Medical Center in Rhode Island (includes Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital). His expertise is on interventions to improve treatment and reduce progression among HIV positive individuals with a particular focus on women, substance abusers, and incarcerated populations. He is the Principal Investigator of the Miriam Hospital AIDS Clinical Trial Unit, on a HRSA SPNS grant to integrate buprenorphine for opiate dependence into the HIV primary care setting, and on a recently funded HRSA SPNS grant to enhance linkage to HIV care among HIV-infected individuals leaving jail. He recently completed an R01 to investigate modified directly observed therapy among active substance abusers who are HIV-infected. He is Co-Director of the HIV and Women's Core of the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research and Associate Director of the Brown University AIDS Program. Dr. Flanigan will work to help other TNC investigators on issues related to the recruitment and retention of drug using populations for research studies, as well as assessing substance use and conducting assessments among drug using populations.