MARKALAIN DERY, DO, MPH, FACOI

Founder and Executive Director

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https://whivfm.org

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MarkAlain Dery is the founder and executive director of NOSIDA and 102.3 WHIV-LP.

Dr. Dery is an infectious diseases physician and the Chief Innovation Officer for Access Health of Louisiana- the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Louisiana. Dr. Dery manages several large grants, including two Federal Ryan White grants that provide direct care to people living with HIV (Part A) and the AIDS Education and Training Center Program (AETC), a nation-wide network of leading HIV experts whose mission is to provide cutting-edge HIV trainings for healthcare professionals (Part F).

Dr. Dery has 9 years experience as a trauma LifeFlight physician (rotor and fixed wing) with the emergency medical response team in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Dery is an avid human rights and social justice activist, and has been a medical responder to global catastrophies such as Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and most recently worked as a clinical field epidemiologist for the World Health Organization during the 2014-15 Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone.