The Administrative & Coordinating (AC) Core for PAVILION is based at Moffitt Cancer Center under the leadership of Drs. Anna Giuliano, Margaret Borok and Hennie Botha. The AC Core provides overall scientific leadership and operational and financial oversight of the PAVILION U54 partnership. The AC Core provides a wide range of administrative coordination, operational and financial oversight to all leaders, co-leaders, investigators, and Core Directors.
Further, the AC Core ensures clear lines of communication within the partnership, scientific rigor and reproducibility through a robust Protocol Development & Implementation Team, and planning and evaluation activities. The AC Core fosters an enriched infrastructure that provides leadership, organizational, administrative, and logistical support for the proposed activities as well as providing leadership mentoring opportunities for early career investigators.
Anna R. Giuliano, PhD (Moffitt Cancer Center) is a Senior Member in the Department of Cancer Epidemiology at Moffitt. Dr. Giuliano is the founding Director of the Center for Immunization and Infection Research in Cancer (CIIRC). Her research of human papillomavirus (HPV) has contributed significantly to our understanding of HPV infection natural history, the proportion of infections that progress to disease, and importantly to HPV vaccine protection against multiple diseases in women and men.
Margaret Borok, MBChB, FRCP (University of Zimbabwe) is a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, with 20 years of experience in clinical research and research management. She manages the only referral clinic for patients with AIDS and Kaposi Sarcoma (KS), and she is a member of the international committee and KS working group of the AIDS Malignancy Consortium (AMC) under the National Cancer Institute.
Hennie Botha, MD, PhD (Stellenbosch University) is an academic gynecological oncologist and Executive Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. His research focuses on the prevention and treatment of cervical cancer, the interaction of HPV disease and HIV, and in fertility preservation of women with cancer. He has experience in international collaborative research including co-leading with Dr Giuliano the EVRI Trial, a vaccine trial conducted among young women at very high risk of HIV acquisition in South Africa.