Sybil Hosek, PhD, Appointed Director for the Center of Dissemination and Implementation Science
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Sybil Hosek, PhD as Director of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science(CDIS).
Sybil is a research professor in the Department of Medicine at UIC. She previously served as Director of Research in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, at John Stroger Hospital of Cook County.
Sybil received her PhD in Clinical- Community Psychology from DePaul University. She has over 20 years of experience in the development and implementation of HIV-related research studies and bio- behavioral prevention interventions. She is co-PI of the NICHD-funded Adolescent Trials Network for HIV Interventions (ATN). Her research focuses on primary prevention interventions for adolescents and young adults, including PrEP and microbicides, and the development of behavioral interventions to improve uptake, adherence and persistence to these new biomedical strategies. In addition to independent NIH grants focused on adolescent and young adult gay, bisexual and transgender young people in the US, Sybil has been an investigator on several adolescent and young adult PrEP safety and demonstration studies focused on adolescent girls and young women in southern Africa.
Please join us in congratulating Sybil and welcoming her as our new Director for the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science.