Laurie E. Dill, MD, AAHIVS, is a physician at Medical Advocacy and Outreach (MAO; formerly Montgomery AIDS Outreach) in Montgomery, Alabama. A native of Alabama, her undergraduate degree is from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and she attended medical school and residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical School in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dr. Dill is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is certified as an HIV Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine. She has done medical mission work in Belize, worked as an Instructor in Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as part of their Faculty Development Program, and served as the County Health Officer of the Montgomery County Health Department in Montgomery, Alabama. Dr. Dill has been treating patients with HIV at MAO since 1996. She was the Medical Director of MAO from 2006 to 2019, and currently works on the End the HIV Epidemic Initiative for MAO and with statewide partners.
Dr. Dill has been invited to give numerous presentations on HIV and rural health, including a talk on HIV and Women in the South during the 45th Meeting of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) in Washington, DC. She has co-authored studies on domestic violence in primary care settings. In addition, she has been honored with several awards, including the POZ 100 Recognition by POZ Magazine for Outstanding Work in the HIV/AIDS Community in 2016, the River Region of Alabama’s 2017 Maury D. Smith Award for Excellence in Professional Ethics, and the Medical Alumni Association of the University of Alabama’s Marth Myers Role Model Recipient in 2019.