Friday Infectious Disease Conference
Friday ID Conference SeriesCFID 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. To sign-up to receive weekly announcements of the conference, click here. To view the 2010-2011 conference schedule, click here. 2011-2012 Conference Schedule
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| 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" "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 |
Cystic fibrosis |
| March 9, 2012 | Irene Doherty, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill |
TBA |
| March 16, 2012 | David Wohl, MD Joseph Eron, MD UNC-Chapel Hill |
CROI update |
| March 23, 2012 | Cindy Gay, MD UNC-Chapel Hill |
Acute HIV infection |
| 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 | Kim Powers, PhD | TBA |
| April 20, 2012 | JoAnne Keatley University of California-San Francisco |
TBA |
| April 27, 2012 | ||
| May 4, 2012 | Joe Brown London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
TBA |
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| May 25, 2012 | Harsha Thirumurthy | TBA |
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| June 8, 2012 | Ian Carroll UNC-Chapel Hill |
TBA |
| June 15, 2012 |
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| June 29, 2012 |
Next Generation Sequencing for Next Generation Malaria Vaccines: Implications of Parasite Diversity on Malaria Vaccine Efficacy
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- Breakthrough of the Year!
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The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by center director Myron S. Cohen, M.D., has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science.
- News
- Quest to understand Hepatitis C link with liver cancer receives $2.35 million boost 2012-05-22
- Rutala recieves Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award 2012-05-11
- Longer breastfeeding along with antiretroviral drugs could lower HIV transmission to babies 2012-04-26
- Drug helps purge hidden HIV virus, UNC study shows 2012-03-08
- Researchers warn of untreatable gonorrhea in the United States 2012-02-09
