Dr. Marcia Holstad, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN is a Professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. She received her doctorate in nursing with a specialty in health policy from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Her research interests include HIV/AIDS, HIV+ women, HIV and aging, adherence to antiretroviral medications, use of risk reduction behaviors, palliative care, and motivational interviewing. She has been a principal investigator on 5 NIH funding projects. She is currently the principal investigator on two NIH/NINR funded projects: The Music for Health Project tests the efficacy of smart phone mobile app that contains a music program designed to educate and motivate HIV+ persons to adhere to their antiretroviral medications and self-manage medication related symptoms and side-effects; The Living Well Project will test the efficacy of providing early palliative care plus motivational interviewing to persons with a new AIDS diagnosis.  She has taught at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing for over 20 years on all levels (BSN, MSN, PhD) and in addition provides primary care to HIV+ women at a large infectious disease program in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. She is also trained in motivational interviewing and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). Her teaching expertise includes HIV disease, health policy, and motivational interviewing. She teaches in the PhD in Nursing and the Masters in Nursing programs.