Merceditas S. Villanueva, MD, associate professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Yale Medicine AIDS Care Program, is an infectious disease specialist with a clinical focus on HIV. Her research focuses on optimizing models of care for persons with HIV and Hepatitis C, with particular interest in partnerships between public health, medical and community stakeholders including Data to Care approaches. She has published on innovative approaches to promoting HIV-centered client re-engagement, retention and viral suppression and promoting HCV cure in HIV/HCV coinfected persons.