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Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Recorded sessions

  • Dr Pim Brouwers (Participant)

    Dr. Pim Brouwers, completed his undergraduate psychology studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands and obtained his Ph.D. in clinical neuropsychology from McGill University in Montreal in 1979. At the National Institutes of Health (USA) he has been involved in research on the effects of chronic medical illness and its treatment on the Central Nervous System since 1980 reporting on the effect of cranial irradiation in cancer and the reversal of HIV-related dementia with AZT in adults and children. He has continued these lines of investigation at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda till 1998 when he joined the Texas Children's Hospital's Cancer Center of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas as professor of pediatrics and neuroscience. In 2004 he joined the National Institute of Mental Health where he currently is Deputy Director of the Division of AIDS Research and former Interim Director of the Center for Global Mental Health Research