Tim Cressey

Dr Cressey has been actively involved in HIV clinical research studies for over 15 years, primarily focused on mother and child health. Since completing his PhD in pharmacology at Newcastle University in the UK in 2001 he has working as a researcher within the French National Research Institute for Development (IRD) research unit ‘Program for HIV Prevention and Treatment (PHPT)’ based at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He also currently holds academic positions at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA and the University of Liverpool, UK.

Dr Cressey has performed multiple clinical pharmacokinetic studies aimed at optimizing antiretroviral drug dosing for adults, adolescents, children, pregnant women and newborns. He is also an active member of the Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS (PENTA), and has coordinated multiple PENTA clinical trials in Thailand over the last 10 years. He is also working with the NIAID/NICHD-funded International Pediatric Maternal Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) network in Thailand and is currently the co-chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) convened-Pediatric Antiretroviral Working Group (PAWG).

To support both investigator-initiated and network studies undertaken in Thailand, he has established a pharmacology laboratory at the Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences at Chiang Mai University.  This laboratory contains state-of-the art equipment and is ISO 15189 and ISO 17089 accredited.