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Whether he's leading in his role as chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine or as physician-in-chief of Texas Children's Hospital, Mark W. Kline, MD, is an innovator in the treatment of children with HIV/AIDS. As president of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) at Texas Children's Hospital, he and his research team have built a global infrastructure that provides cutting-edge care for some of the poorest children on the planet, and are accomplishing things that no other pediatric institution in the world is doing.
Stanford T. Shulman, MD
Dr. Shulman:
What made you start BIPAI?
Dr. Kline:
I'm a pediatric HIV/AIDS doctor by training. I was heavily involved in pediatric HIV clinical research in the early days of the epidemic. In the mid-1990s it became apparent that we had made advances in the prevention and treatment of pediatric HIV in the United States. However, a huge disparity existed in terms of access to life-saving care and treatment between the developed and developing worlds. I was invited to visit Romania, and there I saw with my own eyes the devastating...