Tim Gill is a successful software entrepreneur who actively supports equal rights and opportunity for every citizen. Particularly, Tim Gill opposes discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender expression. A recipient of the University of Colorado Distinguished Service Award in 1996, Tim Gill headed a group of generous and prescient donors as the predominant contributor to establish a $1.5 million dollar endowment for the Tim Gill Professorship in Infectious Diseases in 1998.
This chair was initially held by Dr. Robert Schooley. Since 2005, Dr. Edward Janoff has been the recipient of this chair. The Tim Gill Chair in Infectious Diseases was established to support HIV/AIDS research at the University of Colorado and to promote HIV/AIDS education at the University and within the Colorado community.
Each year a Tim Gill Distinguished Lecturer is selected based on their expertise in HIV/AIDS research and care, for their skill in teaching and for their humanism that informs and enhances their community and the world. They share their expertise, perspective and experience with our faculty and trainees and also with our community.
Past Tim Gill Distinguished Lectureships
Paul A. Volberding, MD
Professor and Vice Chair, UCSF Department of Medicine. Chief, Medical Services SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research
"The Ongoing Relationship Between HIV and Cancer"
March 31, 2010
Carlos del Rio, MD
Professor and Chair
Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health and
Co-Director for the Clinical Science and International Research Core of the Emory
Center for AIDS Research
"Challenges for Providing HIV Care to Hard-to-Reach Populations in the US"
May 27, 2009
Gerald Friedland, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health
Director, Yale AIDS Program Yale University
"Confronting HIV and XDR (Extremely Drug Resistant) TB in South Africa"
March 26, 2008
Kenneth Mayer, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Community Health
Director, Brown University AIDS Program
Brown University
“Biological Interventions to Prevent HIV: Pitfalls and Promise”
May 16, 2007
Judith S. Currier, M.D.
Professor of Medicine,
UCLA Center for AIDS Research and Education
Co-Director, CARE Center
“HIV in Women in America”
May 3, 2006
Wafaa El-Sadr, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Harlem Hospital Center
“The HIV Epidemic: Can it Transform the Health Care System Globally?”
March 4, 2002
Roberto Badaro, MD
Salvador, Bahia Brazil
“HIV in Brazil: The Intersection of the HIV Epidemic and Tropical Diseases”
May 17, 2000
Samuel A. Bozzette, MD, PhD
Senior Natural Scientist, RAND
Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
“HIV Healthcare Treatment in the United States”
March 31, 1999
Bruce D. Walker, MD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
“Host Factors in the Control of HIV-1 Infection”
* State-of-the Art HIV-1 Research Laboratory. The Gill Foundation also helped the construction of one Laboratory.