Sharon Walmsley

Dr. Walmsley is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Toronto Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the assistant director of the Immmunodeficiency Clinic and director of the clinical research program. Her receipt of a career support award from the Ontario HIV Treatment Network enables her to continue her research in the area of HIV clinical management. 

She is the National Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee, the co-chair of the clinical management core of the Canadian HIV Trials Network, and a member of the scientific review committee of the Canadian Association for HIV Research and the Canadian Institute of Health Research Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials Panel. She is a member of the governing council of the International AIDS Society.

She has participated in the pivotal trials of a number of the antiretroviral agents both for treatment naïve and treatment experienced patients, and has published widely in the field. She has a special interest in the management of HIV infected women.   Dr Walmsley obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario. She has completed specialty training in Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Internal Medicine. She has obtained a Master's degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Toronto.