AIDS and Behavior, Vol. 17, Issue 4 – New Issue Alert – Editorial
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Very nice Editorial in AIDS and Behavior on Rob Malow.
Robert M. Malow 1953-2013
Seth C. Kalichman & Jessy G. D=E9vieux
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Robert M. Malow 1953-2013
Seth C. Kalichman1 and Jessy G. D=E9vieux2 (1) Universit=
y of Connecticut, Storrs-Mansfield, CT, USA (2)
Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Published online: 6 April 2013
AIDS behavioral scientists have lost a valued researcher and colleague. Rob=
Malow passed away on February 18, 2013 after battling a rare and aggressiv=
e cancer. Rob was a frequent contributor to AIDS and Behavior and served on=
our Editorial Board since 2003. Rob’s first paper published in AIDS and Be=
havior appeared in 2000 with Robert McMahon and their student Terri Jenning=
s titled “Personality, stress, and social support in HIV risk prediction” [=
4(4):399-410]. Rob’s most recent paper in the journal is “Depression, Subst=
ance Abuse and Other Contextual Predictors of Adherence to Antiretroviral T=
herapy (ART) Among Haitians” [published online Jan 22, 2013]. Two other rec=
ent papers in the AIDS and Behavior speak to the breadth of his work, “Neur=
ological function, information-motivation-behavioral skills factors, and ri=
sk behaviors among HIV-positive alcohol users.” [2012 Nov;16(8):2297-308]; =
and “Cognitive behavioral HIV risk reduction in those receiving psychiatric=
treatment: a clinical trial” [2012 Jul;16(5):1192-202].
Rob’s interests in AIDS were indeed remarkably broad. He kept up with all t=
hings related to HIV prevention and treatment, including the behavioral, bi=
ological, cultural, social and psychological dimensions of the epidemic. He=
was well versed in the contextual antecedents, individual risk factors, ps=
ychological and social sequelae, medication adherence, and prevention inter=
ventions. He pushed the limit of what he could incorporate in behavioral in=
tervention studies, and had added molecular-genetic factors to his work in =
the last several years in order to contribute more to the field on moderato=
rs of treatment response. His work was based in the HIV/AIDS epicenter of M=
iami, and he had research projects in southern Africa, Trinidad, Haiti, and=
the Dominican Republic. Rob maintained a close and cohesive research team =
in Miami as well as a rich network of nationally recognized collaborators.
Rob was gregarious, likable and a positive spirit. His curiosity about the =
behavioral aspects of AIDS seemed insatiable. In an interview he was once a=
sked what was on his iPod and he replied “I usually listen to webcasts of c=
onferences on my IPod.” Rob personified the very mission of AIDS and Behavi=
or. When once asked to describe how he approached his work, Rob said, “My i=
nterest and intent has been to know everything I could about what works in =
the field of HIV/AIDS prevention, what may be at the frontier, and how othe=
r areas of research, such as obesity prevention, may be related to reducing=
transmission risk.”
Rob was born in 1953 in Long Island. He received his Bachelors Degree in Ps=
ychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1974. Rob atte=
nded graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, earning his =
Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology in 1977 and his PhD in Clinical Psych=
ology 1980. Rob was interested in health psychology from the start of his c=
areer. In graduate school Rob worked closely with Larry Grimm on pain perce=
ption, publishing papers on myofascial pain. After completing his clinical =
internship, Rob took his first position at the University of Illinois Colle=
ge of Dentistry. His expertise in pain research as a young clinical profess=
or rapidly led to intensive research and clinical work with substance using=
populations, and eventually in HIV prevention.
Rob joined the faculty at Tulane University School of Medicine in 1984 in t=
he Department of Psychiatry and Neurology. During this time Rob also served=
as the Program Manager of the Drug Dependence Treatment Program at the New=
Orleans VA Medical Center. Rob used to refer to his time at Tulane as his =
‘Hippie days’, and he carried his Tulane ID card to prove it. These were pr=
oductive years for Rob, publishing 18 papers between 1984 and 1992. Rob als=
o started working on AIDS while at Tulane, achieving the rank of Associate =
Professor. He moved to the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences=
at the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1992, where he served as =
the Director of Research and Training of the Addiction Treatment Program at=
the University of Miami/Jackson Medical Center until 2002. He focused on H=
IV/AIDS research with inner city minority drug abusing high-risk population=
s. While at the University of Miami, Rob concentrated on NIH-funded project=
s with adolescent offenders, VA patients, seriously mentally ill adults, HI=
V positive patients, and pregnant women. His work also extended to Haiti an=
d the Caribbean where he translated evidence-based interventions for use wi=
th some the world’s most vulnerable populations. Rob moved to Florida Inter=
national University (FIU) in 2002 as a Professor at the Robert Stempel Coll=
ege of Public Health & Social Work and he was the Director of the AIDS Prev=
ention Program. He was recognized by FIU in September 2012 with a Faculty A=
ward for Excellence in Research. His research program remained focused on t=
he intersection of HIV infection and substance abuse and the National Insti=
tutes of Health funded his research seamlessly since 1990.
Rob championed the idea of open access publishing before most of us had eve=
r heard of it. He was cultivating electronic copies of articles and buildin=
g his ‘digital library’ long before it was common for journals to distribut=
e electronic copies of papers. Rob diligently scanned and archived articles=
on his hard-drive. In 1997 Rob started sharing his digital library with co=
lleagues by sending us what were often daily emails; alerting us to freshly=
published literature. This was the start of Malow’s HIV/AIDS ListServ. Sub=
scribers had access to Rob’s collection of current HIV literature and news =
highlighting “research at the frontier of the field.” The ListServ was Rob’=
s passion. He once described it as his “way of studying the field, reducing=
barriers to give-and-take in HIV/AIDS research, and actually, enhancing th=
e enjoyability of my day-to-day work.” In 2010 the CDC funded the ListServ,=
providing Rob with resources that allowed him to expand his reach. The Lis=
tServ grew into a free and searchable archive at a user-friendly website ww=
w.RobertMalow.org. Perhaps the most appreciated=
personal service ever provided to AIDS researchers, Malow’s ListServ reach=
ed as many as 15,000 people around the world. It became a critical source o=
f information for many of us. Rob’s tireless surveillance of the literature=
often made him aware of our articles being published even before the autho=
rs! The ListServ is so well recognized and appreciated, Rob was honored at =
the 2006 U.S. Conference on AIDS with an ‘Unsung Hero Award.’ The award cit=
ation reads:
Many know that for over 14 years Dr. Malow has been at the forefront of HIV=
/AIDS Prevention Research but what few people are aware of is that for the =
last 8 years he has spent at least 20 h per week keeping thousands of peopl=
e who work in the AIDS field updated on literature and information with his=
listserv. Dr. Malow is truly an unsung hero; his undiminished willingness =
to help everyone who requests information from him despite his many years o=
f doing this, deserves recognition. Almost daily, practitioners in the fiel=
d as well as national academic researchers and government officials request=
that Dr. Malow find references, full text articles, authors, and AIDS/HIV =
related data for them, which he does willingly on a pro bono basis. This pr=
epares people in the field to be better informed and thus administer their =
work more efficiently. Furthermore, he helps mentor students and junior fac=
ulty who come to him seeking guidance on grant applications and research pr=
ojects. All of this he does as a service to the field and above and beyond =
his responsibilities as a Professor and Director of the AIDS Prevention Pro=
gram at Florida International University.
Rob sent out his final ListServ notice in early February, just days before =
his death. He was also an enthusiastic disseminator of papers published in =
AIDS and Behavior as part of his ListServ. It is fair to say that Rob did m=
ore than anyone to increase the exposure of work published in AIDS and Beha=
vior. Rob had a vision for connecting people through a common research reso=
urce that would open access to HIV knowledge. It was that connection to us =
through his ListServ that seemed to energize him. Rob was a node in our net=
work that cannot be replaced. His love for this field will live on through =
all of those he touched, and he touched thousands of us.
————————————-
Carrie E. Foote, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies
Indiana University-Purdue University
CA 306b, 425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
Phone: 317.278.8454
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Robert M. Malow 1953–2013
Seth C. Kalichman1&nb=
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and Jessy G. D=E9vieux2 (1) University of Connecticut=
, Storrs-Mansfield, CT, USA (2)
Florida International University, Mi=
ami, FL, USA
Published online: 6 April =
2013
AIDS behavioral scientists have lost=
a valued researcher and colleague. Rob Malow passed away on February 18, 2=
013 after battling a rare and aggressive cancer. Rob was
a frequent contributor to AIDS and Behavior and served on our Editorial Bo=
ard since 2003. Rob’s first paper published in AIDS and Behavior appe=
ared in 2000 with Robert McMahon and their student Terri Jennings titled &#=
8220;Personality, stress, and social support
in HIV risk prediction” [4(4):399–410]. Rob’s most recen=
t paper in the journal is “Depression, Substance Abuse and Other Cont=
extual Predictors of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Among Haitia=
ns” [published online Jan 22, 2013]. Two other recent papers
in the AIDS and Behavior speak to the breadth of his work, “Neurolog=
ical function, information-motivation-behavioral skills factors, and risk b=
ehaviors among HIV-positive alcohol users.” [2012 Nov;16(8):2297̵=
1;308]; and “Cognitive behavioral HIV risk reduction
in those receiving psychiatric treatment: a clinical trial” [2012 Ju=
l;16(5):1192–202].
Rob’s interests in AIDS were i=
ndeed remarkably broad. He kept up with all things related to HIV preventio=
n and treatment, including the behavioral, biological, cultural,
social and psychological dimensions of the epidemic. He was well versed in=
the contextual antecedents, individual risk factors, psychological and soc=
ial sequelae, medication adherence, and prevention interventions. He pushed=
the limit of what he could incorporate
in behavioral intervention studies, and had added molecular-genetic factor=
s to his work in the last several years in order to contribute more to the =
field on moderators of treatment response. His work was based in the HIV/AI=
DS epicenter of Miami, and he had
research projects in southern Africa, Trinidad, Haiti, and the Dominican R=
epublic. Rob maintained a close and cohesive research team in Miami as well=
as a rich network of nationally recognized collaborators.
Rob was gregarious, likable and a po=
sitive spirit. His curiosity about the behavioral aspects of AIDS seemed in=
satiable. In an interview he was once asked what was on
his iPod and he replied “I usually listen to webcasts of conferences=
on my IPod.” Rob personified the very mission of AIDS and Behavior. =
When once asked to describe how he approached his work, Rob said, “My=
interest and intent has been to know everything I
could about what works in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention, what may be at=
the frontier, and how other areas of research, such as obesity prevention,=
may be related to reducing transmission risk.”
Rob was born in 1953 in Long Island.=
He received his Bachelors Degree in Psychology from the State University o=
f New York at Buffalo in 1974. Rob attended graduate school
at the University of Illinois at Chicago, earning his Masters Degree in Cl=
inical Psychology in 1977 and his PhD in Clinical Psychology 1980. Rob was =
interested in health psychology from the start of his career. In graduate s=
chool Rob worked closely with Larry
Grimm on pain perception, publishing papers on myofascial pain. After comp=
leting his clinical internship, Rob took his first position at the Universi=
ty of Illinois College of Dentistry. His expertise in pain research as a yo=
ung clinical professor rapidly led
to intensive research and clinical work with substance using populations, =
and eventually in HIV prevention.
Rob joined the faculty at Tulane Uni=
versity School of Medicine in 1984 in the Department of Psychiatry and Neur=
ology. During this time Rob also served as the Program Manager
of the Drug Dependence Treatment Program at the New Orleans VA Medical Cen=
ter. Rob used to refer to his time at Tulane as his ‘Hippie days̵=
7;, and he carried his Tulane ID card to prove it. These were productive ye=
ars for Rob, publishing 18 papers between 1984
and 1992. Rob also started working on AIDS while at Tulane, achieving the =
rank of Associate Professor. He moved to the Department of Psychiatry and B=
ehavioral Sciences at the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1992, w=
here he served as the Director of
Research and Training of the Addiction Treatment Program at the University=
of Miami/Jackson Medical Center until 2002. He focused on HIV/AIDS researc=
h with inner city minority drug abusing high-risk populations. While at the=
University of Miami, Rob concentrated
on NIH-funded projects with adolescent offenders, VA patients, seriously m=
entally ill adults, HIV positive patients, and pregnant women. His work als=
o extended to Haiti and the Caribbean where he translated evidence-based in=
terventions for use with some the
world’s most vulnerable populations. Rob moved to Florida Internatio=
nal University (FIU) in 2002 as a Professor at the Robert Stempel College o=
f Public Health & Social Work and he was the Director of the AIDS Preve=
ntion Program. He was recognized by FIU in
September 2012 with a Faculty Award for Excellence in Research. His resear=
ch program remained focused on the intersection of HIV infection and substa=
nce abuse and the National Institutes of Health funded his research seamles=
sly since 1990.
Rob championed the idea of open acce=
ss publishing before most of us had ever heard of it. He was cultivating el=
ectronic copies of articles and building his ‘digital library’
long before it was common for journals to distribute electronic copies of =
papers. Rob diligently scanned and archived articles on his hard-drive. In =
1997 Rob started sharing his digital library with colleagues by sending us =
what were often daily emails; alerting
us to freshly published literature. This was the start of Malow’s HI=
V/AIDS ListServ. Subscribers had access to Rob’s collection of curren=
t HIV literature and news highlighting “research at the frontier of t=
he field.” The ListServ was Rob’s passion. He once
described it as his “way of studying the field, reducing barriers to=
give-and-take in HIV/AIDS research, and actually, enhancing the enjoyabili=
ty of my day-to-day work.” In 2010 the CDC funded the ListServ, provi=
ding Rob with resources that allowed him to
expand his reach. The ListServ grew into a free and searchable archive at =
a user-friendly website
www.Rober=
tMalow.org. Perhaps the most appreciated personal service ever p=
rovided to AIDS researchers, Malow’s ListServ reached as many as 15,0=
00 people around the world. It became a critical
source of information for many of us. Rob’s tireless surveillance of=
the literature often made him aware of our articles being published even b=
efore the authors! The ListServ is so well recognized and appreciated, Rob =
was honored at the 2006 U.S. Conference
on AIDS with an ‘Unsung Hero Award.’ The award citation reads:=
Many know that for over 14 year=
s Dr. Malow has been at the forefront of HIV/AIDS Prevention Research but w=
hat few people are aware of is that for the last 8 years he has
spent at least 20 h per week keeping thousands of people who work in =
the AIDS field updated on literature and information with his listserv. Dr.=
Malow is truly an unsung hero; his undiminished willingness to help everyo=
ne who requests information from him
despite his many years of doing this, deserves recognition. Almost daily, =
practitioners in the field as well as national academic researchers and gov=
ernment officials request that Dr. Malow find references, full text article=
s, authors, and AIDS/HIV related
data for them, which he does willingly on a pro bono basis. This prepares =
people in the field to be better informed and thus administer their work mo=
re efficiently. Furthermore, he helps mentor students and junior faculty wh=
o come to him seeking guidance on
grant applications and research projects. All of this he does as a service=
to the field and above and beyond his responsibilities as a Professor and =
Director of the AIDS Prevention Program at Florida International University=
.
Rob sent out his final ListServ noti=
ce in early February, just days before his death. He was also an enthusiast=
ic disseminator of papers published in AIDS and Behavior
as part of his ListServ. It is fair to say that Rob did more than anyone t=
o increase the exposure of work published in AIDS and Behavior. Rob had a v=
ision for connecting people through a common research resource that would o=
pen access to HIV knowledge. It
was that connection to us through his ListServ that seemed to energize him=
. Rob was a node in our network that cannot be replaced. His love for this =
field will live on through all of those he touched, and he touched thousand=
s of us.
——–=
—————————–
Carrie E. Foote, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies
Indiana University-Purdue University
CA 306b, 425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
Phone: 317.278.8454
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