Dr. Deeks is a professor of medicine in residence at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and a faculty member in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Dr. Deeks has been engaged in HIV research and clinical care since 1993. He is a recognized expert on HIV-associated immune dysfunction and its impact on HIV persistence and health during antiretroviral therapy. He has been the recipient of several NIH grants and is one of the principal investigators of the Delaney AIDS Research Enterprise, an NIH-funded international collaboration aimed at developing therapeutic interventions to cure HIV infection. He is the principal investigator of amfAR Institute for HIV Cure Research, co-chair of the “Towards an HIV Cure” International Working Group and a former co-chair of the NIH Office of AIDS Research Toward a Cure Planning Group. In addition, Dr. Deeks maintains a primary care clinic for people living with HIV.