2011-2012 Friday Infectious Disease Conference Series

2011-2012 Conference Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title or Topic
September 9, 2011	Edwin Cameron Constutional Court, South Africa AND Robert Coombs, MD, PhD, FRCPC University of Washington	"The Constitution and HIV/AIDS: the personal and the political" "Laboratory medicine can have tsunamis, too: the case for simple/rapid HIV RNA testing"
September 16, 2011	Meredith Shiels, PhD National Cancer Institute	"Aging and cancer in HIV-infected individuals"
September 23, 2011	Richard W. Price, MD University of California - San Francisco	“Evaluating and treating CNS HIV infection in the current era”
September 30, 2011	Brian W. Pence, PhD Duke University Brad Gaynes, MD, MPH UNC-Chapel Hill	"Depression in HIV primary care"
October 7, 2011	Jim Thomas, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	“Inter-organizational network analysis for HIV care”
October 14, 2011	Judith Auerbach, PhD San Francisco AIDS Foundation	"Thirty years of HIV/AIDS research: the view from the 'nasty sciences'"
October 21, 2011	Marcia Hobbs, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	"Performance of reverse sequence syphilis testing in Jamaica"
October 28, 2011	Joseph Tucker, MD Harvard University/ UNC-Chapel Hill	”The Spatial Organization of Unsafe Sex: Progress towards Spatially Targeted Syphilis Control Measures in Guangdong Province, China"
November 4, 2011	Daniel Westreich, PhD Duke Universityl	“Pregnancy and antiretroviral therapy in South Africa”
November 11, 2011	Jeff Stringer, MD Ben Chi, MD, MSc Stewart Reid, MD, MPH Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia	"A global health program in Zambia"
November 18, 2011	Jon Juliano, MD Irving Hoffman, PA, MPH UNC-Chapel Hill	"Next generation sequencing for next generation malaria vaccines: implications of parasite diversity on malaria vaccine efficacy" and "Phase III RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine trial in African children: first results on efficacy and safety"
November 25, 2011	HOLIDAY	NO CONFERENCE
December 2, 2011	Keymanthri Moodley, PhD University of Stellenbosch	"The Ethics of HIV Prevention Research: Experiences in South Africa"
December 9, 2011	Omar Glarraga, MA, PhD Brown University	“Willingness to Accept Conditional Economic Incentives to Reduce HIV Risks among men who have sex with men in Mexico City”
December 16, 2011	Lynn Matthews, PhD Harvard University	"Minimizing HIV transmission among serodiscordant couples who choose to conceive"
December 23 and 30, 2011	HOLIDAY	NO CONFERENCE
January 6, 2012	William Miller, MD, MPH UNC-Chapel Hill	“The scourge of community viral load” and “STIs in space” (Donuts discussed at intermission)
January 13, 2012	David Weber, MD, MPH UNC-Chapel Hill	“New Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Vaccine Guidelines”
January 20, 2012	Carol Golin, MD Julie Nelson, PhD Michael Hudgens, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	“UNC CFAR: Updates on Social and Behavioral Science, Virology, and Biostatistics”
January 27, 2012	Kristina Abel, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	“A Novel Pediatric HIV-TB Combination Vaccine”
February 3, 2012	Vance Fowler, MD, MHS Duke University	“Staphylococcus aureus: Lessons Learned from 20 Years with the Persistent Pathogen”
February 10, 2012	Manish Sagar, MD Harvard University	“Selection and antibody susceptibility during heterosexual HIV-1 transmission”
February 17, 2012	Annelies van Rie, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	“TB diagnosis: smear microscopy, Xpert and beyond”
February 24, 2012	Byrd Quinlivan, MD UNC-Chapel Hill Lynne Messer, MD Duke Global Health Institute	"HIV-positive women of color and reflections on care"
March 2, 2012	Peadar Noone, MD UNC-Chapel Hill	"An Update on Cystic fibrosis"
March 9, 2012	Irene Doherty, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	“Syphilis, Surveillance, and Sexual Networks”
March 16, 2012	David Wohl, MD David Margolis, MD Christopher Hurt, MD UNC-Chapel Hill	"CROI Update"
March 23, 2012	Michelle Floris-Moore UNC-Chapel Hill	"HIV and Vascular Inflammation"
March 30, 2012	Hendree Jones, PhD RTI International	"Improving Outcomes and Reducing HIV Risk Among Drug Addicted Pregnant and Parenting Women in the US and Internationally: Medication Testing and Behavioral Treatment Development, Adaptation and Evaluation"
April 6, 2012	HOLIDAY	NO CONFERENCE
April 13, 2012	Anne Lachiewicz, MD, MPH; Melissa Miller, PhD; Ralph Raasch, PharmD UNC-Chapel Hill	Can beta-lactam/beta-lactam inhibitor combinations be used to treat extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing E coli?”
April 20, 2012	Joe Eron, MD UNC-Chapel Hill	“Antiretroviral therapy: new agents for HIV. What does the pipeline look like?”
April 27, 2012	Vicki Mobley, Ali Groves, Nora Rosenberg, Elizabeth Pollom UNC-Chapel Hill	“An STD/HIV potpourri: the latest research from UNC trainees”
May 4, 2012	Joe Brown, PhD London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	“Water, sanitation, and hygiene and HIV: current research and opportunities”
May 11, 2012	Laura Widman, Lisa Parker, Pete Broglie UNC-Chapel Hill	“Another STD/HIV potpourri: more of the latest research from UNC trainees”
May 18, 2012	Galit Alter, PhD Harvard University	“Defining mechanisms of NK cell mediated control of chronic viral infections”
May 25, 2012	Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	"Conditional cash transfer and mobile phone interventions to improve ART adherence in Kenya and Uganda”
June 1, 2012	Kimberly Powers, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	“Will Acute and Early HIV Infection Limit the Impact of HIV Treatment as Prevention?”
June 8, 2012	Ward Cates, MD FHI 360	“The Hormonal Contraception/HIV Acquisition Enigma: The Plot Thickens”
June 15, 2012	Satish Gopal, MD, MPH UNC-Chapel Hill	"HIV-associated Lymphoma in the United States” and “Cancer in sub-Saharan Africa”
June 22, 2012	Jason Stout, MD Duke University	“TB Clinical Trials: So Many Drugs, So Little Time”
June 29, 2012	Chris Woods, MD Duke University	“A Program for Developing ‘omic Signatures for Early Detection of Infectious Diseases”

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