Dr. Howard Libman is HAIVN Director, Attending Physician in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is based in Boston.

Dr. Libman received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed residency training in internal medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland and fellowship training in infectious diseases at Boston University Affiliated Hospitals. From 1983 to 1993, Dr. Libman was a member of the Section of General Internal Medicine at Boston City Hospital, where he served as Associate Director of the Clinical AIDS Program. From 1993 to the present time, he has served as Director of the HIV Program in Healthcare Associates, a hospital-based, academic primary care practice that provides care for 500 HIV-infected patients.

Dr. Libman's career has focused on caring for persons with HIV disease and educating clinicians and patients. He has authored numerous original manuscripts, review articles, textbooks, and multimedia resources on this topic. Dr. Libman is co-editor of the textbook, HIV, a third edition of which was published by the American College of Physicians in 2007. He is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America national expert panel that authors HIV primary care guidelines. He is also clinical director of the New England AIDS Education and Training Center.