James W. Dilley is the Executive Director of the UCSF Alliance Health Project (formerly the AIDS Health Project), a mental health facility. He is a psychiatrist and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. He is a pioneer in the field of developing responses to help with the mental health issues surrounding HIV. [1] He has published on the issues of mental and physical health in the homosexual community and surrounding HIV. [2] Dilley and other AHP colleagues developed a counseling approach for HIV risk reduction called Personalized Cognitive Counseling (PCC) which was recognized in 2010 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an effective behavioral intervention. [3] He was the 2016 recipient of the Adolf Meyer Award from the American Psychiatric Association. [4]
He received his medical degree from the University of Missouri and completed his psychiatric residency at UCSF. [3]