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Senior Advisor and Physician
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Siobhán O’Connor is a Senior Advisor and Physician in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of HIV Prevention, where she leads and coordinates addressing the intersection of HIV and aging and advises on international clinical trials for HIV prevention. She is the CDC representative to the Aging with HIV, Long-Term & Lifetime Survivors Subcommittee of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. Dr. O’Connor earned her Master of Public Health from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, focusing on international health and infectious disease epidemiology, after completing her clinical and research Fellowship in Rheumatology at Washington University at St. Louis, residency in Internal Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center Houston and her Doctor of Medicine from McGovern Medical School in Houston. She is a proud graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. O’Connor is Board Certified in Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, has held faculty and clinical assistant faculty positions in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, and practiced clinical internal medicine, rheumatology and cared for and treated chronic Hepatitis B and C patients. Her multidisciplinary global and domestic backgrounds in clinical medicine, public health and research have been invaluable to her current work and in prior roles at CDC. Previously, Dr. O'Connor's work included leading international clinical trials teams, advising Ministries of Health on development of national viral hepatitis and HIV-viral hepatitis co-infection prevention and treatment programs, and roles in emergency responses including the mpox response. In her first position at CDC, she led and coordinated CDC address of infectious etiologies of chronic disease and the intersection of infectious and chronic diseases. Dr. O'Connor has served on several national committees and advisory boards, including the Advisory Board to the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.