Alex Wodak, MD Director, Alcohol and Drug Service St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia President, Australia Drug Law Reform Foundation Dr. Alex Wodak has been Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia since 1982. He is President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation and was President of the International Harm Reduction Association from 1996 to 2004. Dr. Wodak helped establish the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (1987), the NSW Users & AIDS Association (1989), the Australasian Society of HIV Medicine (1990), Australia's first (pre-legal) needle exchange program and Australia’s first (pre-legal) medically supervised injecting centre. Major interests include prevention of the spread of HIV and hepatitis C among injecting drug users, brief interventions for problem drinkers, treatment of drug users in prison, and drug policy. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific studies. He is a member of a range of state and national committees. Dr. Wodak also works in developing countries to assist efforts to control HIV infection among injecting drug users.