March 17, 2021 Demetre Daskalakis, M.D., M.P.H., speaks on stage during Housing Works World AIDS Day at The New York Academy of Medicine on December 2, 2019 in New York City. The first time I ever saw Demetre Daskalakis, M.D., M.P.H., was in April 2017, at an afternoon dance party at the AIDS Memorial in downtown New York to end HIV stigma and celebrate the science of U=U (undetectable equals untransmittable. As I was boogie-oogie-oogie-ing, my friend asked me if I recognized the DJ. I looked over, and in the music booth was a sexy, tattooed, bald, goateed guy in a cut-up T-shirt and baseball cap. It was Dr. D. At the time, he was the deputy commissioner in the Division of Disease Control for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, our HIV champion, and, apparently, a rockin’ music mixologist.