Congratulations to Ben Parchem, who successfully defended his bundled dissertation entitled Sexual Behaviors and Identities of Sexual Minority Men Born in Latin American Countries Through a Sex-Affirmative HIV Prevention Lens. Committee members/readers included Drs. Paul Poppen and Sarah Calabrese, and outside examiners were Drs. Sherry Molock and Carlos Rodriguez Diaz. Dr. Maria Cecilia Zea chaired the Orals meeting.