Jonathan Shuter, M.D. is a graduate of the Boston University six-year BA-MD program. He completed his internal medicine residency and his infectious diseases fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he is currently a tenured Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Population Health. Since 1998, he has been the Director of Clinical Research in the Montefiore Medical Center AIDS Center in the Bronx, New York. He is a practicing infectious diseases and HIV subspecialist, and much of his research is driven by the observations that he makes in his day-to-day interactions with persons with HIV in the Montefiore Infectious Diseases Clinic. Dr. Shuter’s primary research interest involves tobacco use in persons living with HIV, both in the US and internationally, and he is the recipient of multiple NIH and foundation grants, from NCI, NIDA, NHLBI, and the American Legacy Foundation/Truth Initiative, in support of his scientific pursuits.