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Mike Barr, foundered of Project THAMES* (www.projectthames.org) and a blogger at www.shillfactor.blogspot.com, has worked on behalf of people with HIV since 1987, first as scribe for the ACT UP/New York Treatment+Data Committee and as policy analyst at the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). From 1990 to 1999 he worked at St. Vincent's Hospital as a medical editor and clinical trials specialist. He served as a community representative to the NIH's AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) and as a member of its Primary Infection Committee from 1992 to 1994. From 1994 to 2005, he served as editor of the monthly newsletter of the Treatment Action Group and as contributing editor to Poz magazine. He has done freelance work for the medical communications firms Medscape/WebMD, Clinical Care Options, and MediSolutions/Thomson Worldwide, writing and editing next day summaries from the major international AIDS conferences and ghost writing clinical research manuscripts on behalf of pharmaceutical clients. In the mid-1990s he also worked on patient education materials for Roche and GlaxoSmithKline. Mike was graduated from the Ohio State University in 1984 where he studied pre-med, finance and piano; and in 2001 from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently working on a book.
