Mark Wainberg was the director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University.
11 Facts About Mark Wainberg
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From 1998 to 2000, Mark Wainberg was President of the International AIDS Society.
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Mark Wainberg was Co-Chair of the XVI International AIDS Conference and a past president of the Canadian Association for HIV Research.
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Mark Wainberg founded the Journal of the International AIDS Society in 2004, which he was still supporting as one of its three Editors-in-Chief.
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Mark Wainberg was an editor on publications including the Journal of Human Virology, Retrovirology, Journal of Leukocyte Biology, International Antiviral News, AIDS Patient Care and STDs, Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases and AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.
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In 2008, Mark Wainberg was named a Chevalier de Legion d'honneur, the highest honor given by the country of France.
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Mark Wainberg was a past president of Congregation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem.
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Mark Wainberg was critical of politicians who ignore the problem of AIDS, including former South African President Thabo Mbeki.
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Dr Mark Wainberg opposed the pseudoscientific ideas of AIDS denialism that are responsible for an estimated 330,000 AIDS deaths in South Africa alone.
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In 2006, Dr Mark Wainberg was the Co-Chair of the XVI International AIDS Conference.
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Mark Wainberg's funeral was held on Friday, April 14,2017, in Congregation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem, the Montreal synagogue where he had previously served as president.