Jeffrey P. Nadler (born 27 February 1950, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS expert. His most recent position has been as Acting Director and Assistant Director of the Therapeutics Research Program, Division of AIDS (DAIDS), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) where he oversaw NIH/NIAID-sponsored national and international HIV/AIDS research. He is well known for his service as an expert HIV consultant to the Association of Physicians of India (API), as a facilitator to the creation of the first guidelines for use of antiretroviral therapy in India, and for training countless Indian physicians in the treatment of HIV/AIDS through the NGO, CHART-India. His reputation as physician-adventurer is also of note. He treated climbers while ascending Mount Everest, sailors while racing around the world, and indigenous peoples while backpacking along the Amazon River in Brazil and while hacking his way through the jungles of Peru on a mapmaking expedition. A master HIV clinician of international repute, he has treated patients with HIV and AIDS in Brazil, the Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Russia and the United States. Early life and education Nadler was born 27 February 1950 in Brooklyn, New York to Mae and Abraham Nadler, a teacher and a career civil servant for the United States Commerce Department, respectively. He earned a B.A. from SUNY Buffalo in 1971 and completed a National Science Foundation summer research fellowship prior to graduation. Nadler was awarded his medical degree (M.D.) in 1975 from the New York Medical College New York, NY, where he received the Community and Preventive Medicine Scholarship. Dr. Nadler completed his post-doctoral residency training in Internal Medicine at the New York Medical College (1975–78) and fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York (1978–80). Career Since 2006, Dr. Nadler has been deputy director and then acting director of the Therapeutics Research Program, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (DAIDS/NIAID). While serving in NIAID, one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, Nadler worked with the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to help improve and increase access to treatment in developing nations, particularly in Africa. He has also helped NIAID plan a new agenda for improving tuberculosis (TB) treatment in people infected with both HIV and TB. Prior to coming to the NIH, Nadler was on faculty