Friday Infectious Disease Conference

CFID and IGHID co-sponsor a weekly conference series featuring distinguished clinicians and scientists from UNC, local universities and other national and international institutions. The topics are varied and appeal to not only infectious disease specialists, but also professionals in epidemiology, public health, microbiology, biostatistics and other global health-related disciplines.

The conference takes place every Friday (September through June) from 8:30-9:30 a.m. in 1131 Bioinformatics (first floor auditorium) on the UNC campus. For more information, please contact the conference coordinator, Kathy James, at kjames@med.unc.edu.

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2012-2013 Conference Schedule

(check back frequently for updates)

Date	Speaker	Title or Topic
September 7, 2012	Amy Justice, MD, PhD Yale University West Haven VA Healthcare System	“HIV, Aging, and Cancer Screening: One Size Does Not Fit All”
September 14, 2012	Jamie Bartram, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	"Water, Sanitation, Infectious Disease, Global Health and UNC"
September 21, 2012	Moses Bility UNC-Chapel Hill	"The Role of M1/M2 Macrophages in HBV Infection in the Humanized Mouse Model"
September 28, 2012	Max Essex Harvard University	"Lessons from Botswana: Prevention and Treatment in the World’s Worst Epidemic of HIV/AIDS"
October 5, 2012	Stefano Bertozzi Gates Foundation	"The Gates Foundation Approach to Global Health: Asking the Big Questions in Public Health"
October 12, 2012	Sylvia Becker-Dreps UNC -Chapel Hill	"Childhood Diarrhea in Nicaragua in the Rotavirus Vaccine Era"
October 19, 2012	Christa Elizabeth Sturdevant UNC-Chapel Hill	HIV Infection of the Central Nervous System in Young Children
October 26, 2012	Joe Eron, MD David Wohl, MD Christopher Hurt, MD UNC-Chapel Hill	Fall HIV Update (NCATEC Training) LOCATION CHANGE: 2204 MBRB
November 2, 2012	Lisa Biagiotti (guest of Peter Leone, UNC)	Screening of deepsouth documentary (special two-hour conference, 8:30-10:30 a.m.)
November 9, 2012	April D. Kimmel, PhD Virginia Commonwealth University	"Lives Saved by Expanding HIV Treatment Availability in Resource-Limited Settings: The Example of Haiti"
November 16, 2012	Bill Rutala, MD UNC-Chapel Hill	"Safer Healthcare Environments for Infection Prevention"
November 23, 2012	HOLIDAY	NO CONFERENCE
November 30, 2012	Katherine Record Harvard University	14th Annual World AIDS Day Symposium REGISTRATION IS FULL!
December 7, 2012	Thomas John Bender, MD Duke University	"Hepatitis B Outbreaks in Virginia and North Carolina"
December 14, 2012	David Weber, MD, MPH UNC-Chapel Hill	"Role of the Surface Environment in the Transmission of Multi-drug Resistant Pathogens (MRSA, VRE, Acinetobacter, C. difficile): Epidemiology and Prevention"
December 21, 2012	HOLIDAY	NO CONFERENCE
December 28, 2012	HOLIDAY	NO CONFERENCE
January 4, 2013	Arlene Seña-Soberano, MD, MPH UNC-Chapel Hill	"Progress Versus Gaps in the Basic Science and Clinical Management of Treponema pallidum"
January 11, 2013	Ralph Baric,PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	"Mechanisms Governing Virus-Induced Disease Severity in the Lung"
January 18, 2013	Kenneth Alexander University of Chicago	"Seven Years of HPV Immunization: What Have We Learned?"
January 25, 2013	Marcia Hobbs, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	“Experimental Human Gonococcal Infection Studies: Progress and Challenges”
February 1, 2013	Carla Hand, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	“Host iron status and iron supplementation conspire to mediate host susceptibility to the erythrocytic stage of Plasmodium falciparum”
February 8, 2013	Dirk Dittmer, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	"Rapamycin for the treatment of AIDS-Kaposi's Sarcoma"
February 15, 2013	Heidi Swygard, MD, MPH and Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH UNC-Chapel Hill	"Innovative e-Health strategies to find, engage and retain Young Black MSM in HIV Prevention and Care" “The UNC-Lincoln partnership: present opportunities and future vision"
February 22, 2013	Kumi Smith UNC-Chapel Hill	"Reading the Tea Leaves: Can HTPN 052 Work in China?"
March 1, 2013	Allison Rice, JD Duke University	"Health Reform and People Living with HIV/AIDS in a Red State"
March 8, 2013	Adaora Adimora, MD UNC-Chapel Hill	"HIV in the South"
March 15, 2013	Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	"Infectious Disease Surveillance in the Community and Healthcare Setting"
March 22, 2013	Dr. Khuat Thu Hong & Dr. Le Bach Duong Institute for Social Development Studies in Vietnam	"HIV/AIDS and Stigma in Vietnam: What Have We Learned?"
March 29, 2013	HOLIDAY	NO CONFERENCE
April 5, 2013	Toni Darville, MD University of Pittsburgh	“Chlamydia trachomatis and Understanding Pathogenesis – A Pathway to Disease Prevention”
April 12, 2013	Steve Meshnick, MD, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill	“Tick-borne disease prevention: from fashion to phylogeny”
April 19, 2013	Steven Inrig, PhD UT Southwestern	"North Carolina and the battle against HIV: historical reflections on local research efforts”
April 26, 2013	Trainees: Kara Jensen, Laura Widman, and Liz Yanik	“An STD/HIV potpourri: the latest research from UNC trainees”
May 3, 2013	Alex Duncan, MD UNC-Chapel Hill	"Innate immune signaling and gonococcal pathogenesis"
May 10, 2013	Trainees: Veronica Escamilla, Kate Muessig, Michael Herce	“Another STD/HIV potpourri: more of the latest research from UNC trainees”
May 17, 2013	James Horton, MD Charlotte	"IDSA Guidelines"
May 24, 2013	Ian Glomski, PhD University of Virginia	"Bacillus anthracis versus the phagocyte, an unfair match"
May 31, 2012	Balfour Sartor UNC-Chapel Hill	TBA
June 7, 2013	Lisa Bowleg, PhD The George Washington University	"Beyond condoms only: insights from research on the social-structural context of black heterosexual men’s HIV risk"
June 14, 2013	CFAR Cores	TBA
June 21, 2013	Cindy Gay, MD UNC-Chapel Hill	TBA
June 28, 2013	David Jolly and Kate MacQueen FHI 360	TBA

To view the 2011-2012 conference schedule, click here.