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Edwin Bayrd
Associate Director, UCLA AIDS Institute
 Edwin Bayrd is the Associate Director for administration, communications, development, and marketing at the UCLA AIDS Institute. Before joining the Institute in 2002, Mr. Bayrd edited and published HIV Newsline, a treatment-update journal that was distributed, free of charge, to virtually every healthcare provider in the United States who treats HIV-infected individuals. Prior to founding HIV Newsline, Mr. Bayrd edited a number of medical journals, among them Cardiovascular Medicine. He received a Jesse H. Neale Award for the new departments and features that he developed as part of the cover-to-cover redesign of that magazine. Since he joined the UCLA AIDS Institute Mr. Bayrd has overseen the production of an award-winning documentary that provides an overview of the Institute’s multifaceted, multidisciplinary approach to containing the HIV pandemic—through laboratory research and behavioral interventions, community-outreach programs and coordinated patient care. In addition, Mr. Bayrd has launched “Knowledge Is Power,” a campaign to encourage more widespread and routine HIV testing, has created an AIDS Ambassadors program to promote peer education at UCLA and in the Los Angeles school system, and has organized symposia on a wide range of topics.
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