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After earning his PhD in Neurobiology and completing post-graduate work in immunology, Stephen Karpiak joined the faculty of Columbia University Medical School in 1972 with appointments in Neurology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience.

As a Program Director at AIDS Project Arizona, he founded the Arizona AIDS Project Wellness Center, and led the first research based needs analyses of the Phoenix HIV/AIDS population. Dr. Karpiak has appeared on CNN, CBS, NPR, BBC and featured in a front page articles in the NY Times. He has also published over 200 peer reviewed journal articles, as well as hundreds of abstracts and chapters.

For the last six years he has been the Director for Research at ACRIA - AIDS Community Research Initiative of America in NYC. His research on HIV and older adults was pivotal in causing the NYC Council to award two one-million dollar (for 2007-2008 and 2008-2009) grants to address the neglected issue of HIV  infection in older adults.