Motivational Interviewing in HIV Care

Antoine Douaihy is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Senior Academic Director of Addiction Medicine Services, and Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Western Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Co-Director of the Tobacco Treatment Service at UPMC. He has a well-established record of clinical. leadership, and research expertise in substance use disorders (SUDs) and SUDs co-occurring with psychiatric disorders, psychology of behavior change, motivational interviewing, and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Douaihy has a well-established record of leadership and expertise in conducting clinical trials, having served and currently serving as a PI, Co-PI and Co-I on NIAAA, NIMH, NIDA, HRSA, SAMHSA, and industry sponsored grants.

K Rivet Amico is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. As a counselling psychologist by training, her work has focused on applying social behavioural science to HIV treatment and prevention. She works with adolescent and adult populations in a wide range of community settings on research and implementation efforts to end the HIV epidemic. Her interests center on optimizing social and structural environments, intrapersonal processes, and skills development to engage individuals and communities in protection and promotion of sexual and mental health. She has worked extensively with Motivational Interviewing informed and based approaches.