Mallory Johnson is professor of medicine and nursing at UCSF and a licensed clinical health psychologist, whose research has focused on understanding, measuring, and improving the health of patients with chronic diseases such as HIV. His program of multidisciplinary collaborative research is focused on HIV prevention and improving HIV treatment outcomes through patient empowerment. His teaching mission is primarily achieved through my mentoring of early career investigators and through overseeing mentor development programs. He is the Director of the NIH-funded Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) and Co-Director for the UCSF-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), for which he directs the Developmental Core and Bio-Behavioral Core.