James McMahon is an infectious diseases (ID) clinician-researcher, Head of Infectious Diseases Clinical Research at the Alfred Hospital and an ID physician at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne. His research interests are in clinical trials focused on HIV cure, HIV treatment, the cascade of HIV care and COVID-19. He is Vice President of the Australian Society of HIV Medicine (ASHM) and chairs the Antiretroviral Guidelines Committee for ASHM. He also sits on the Treatment & Chemoprophylaxis Panel for the Australian National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce.