Past Events http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis Events which have already happened. daily 1 2010-06-02T13:54:17Z Friday ID Conferece: STD/HIV Training Program Presentations Part 2 http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/friday-id-conferece-std-hiv-training-program-presentations-part-2 No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-04-29T20:45:00Z Event Friday ID Conference: "Innate immune signaling and gonococcal pathogenesis" http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/friday-id-conference-innate-immune-signaling-and-gonococcal-pathogenesis No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-04-29T20:40:00Z Event Friday ID Conferece: STD/HIV Training Program Presentations Part I http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/friday-id-conferece-std-hiv-training-program-presentations-part-i Speakers will include trainees Kara Jensen, Laura Widman, and Liz Yanik from the UNC-NIH AIDS and STD Training Program. No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-04-22T19:50:00Z Event Friday ID Conference: “North Carolina and the battle against HIV: historical reflections on local research efforts” http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/friday-id-conference-201cnorth-carolina-and-the-battle-against-hiv-historical-reflections-on-local-research-efforts201d Stephen Inrig, PhD to speak at Friday ID Conference on April 19. Stephen InrigDr. Inrig is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences Division of Outcomes and Health Services Research at UT Southwestern. He is a member of the Harold C. Simmons Cancer Center, a Clinical Research Scholar in UT Southwestern’s Center for Translational Research (formerly UT-STAR), co-director of the rotation program on health care financing and policy, and also serves as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management.

Dr. Inrig studies the intersection of health policy and the social determinants of health among vulnerable populations. His research has focused on HIV in the American South as well as Global Health governance. He is presently conducting work on delivery of care in Safety Net institutions in North Texas, giving particular attention to HIV, Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, and Maternal-Fetal Health.

Dr. Inrig hails from Canada. He spent many years running programs for youth, especially at-risk youth, in Illinois, California, and North Carolina. He received his PhD from Duke University and lives with his wife, a nephrologist, and three children in Dallas.

Dr. Inrig will also be giving another presentation, “North Carolina’s HIV epidemic in historical context,” on Thursday, April 18 at 5:30 p.m. in the UNC Health Sciences Library, 5th floor conference room (#527). This lecture is co-sponsored by the UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases and is part of the Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture Series.

About Friday ID Conference

The Division of Infectious Diseases, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases, and Center for AIDS Research at UNC co-sponsor a weekly conference series which features 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, or to suggest a speaker, please contact the conference coordinator, Kathy James. To sign-up to receive weekly announcements of the conference, click here.

]]> No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-04-10T19:53:29Z Event Friday ID Conference: “Tick-borne disease prevention: from fashion to phylogeny” http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/friday-id-conference-201ctick-borne-disease-prevention-from-fashion-to-phylogeny201d Steven Meshnick, PhD, to speak at the Friday ID Conference on April 12.
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Steve Meshnick’s work has been at the interface of epidemiology and laboratory sciences. He received his PhD from Rockefeller University and his MD from Cornell University Medical College. He is particularly interested in malaria, Pneumocystis jirovecii, and mother-to-child transmission of HIV. His lab has developed new methods, such as high-throughput real-time PCR, to study the epidemiology of malaria and drug-resistant malaria. His lab is also working on the mechanisms of action of antimalarial drugs.

He is currently applying new spatial epidemiological methods to understand malaria evolution and dispersion. Meshnick has worked on malaria in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and other sites. Using specimens from human drug trials, he is studying the evolution of drug resistance and developing new tools to detect resistance in malaria and pneumocystis. He is also using blood and tissue samples from malaria and HIV infected pregnant women to understand the pathogenesis of malaria and HIV during pregnancy and the mechanisms of mother-to-child transmission.

About Friday ID Conference

The Division of Infectious Diseases, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases, and Center for AIDS Research at UNC co-sponsor a weekly conference series which features 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, or to suggest a speaker, please contact the conference coordinator, Kathy James. To sign-up to receive weekly announcements of the conference, click here.

]]> No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-04-10T19:45:00Z Event Friday ID Conference: Chlamydia trachomatis and Understanding Pathogenesis - A Pathway to Disease Prevention http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/friday-id-conference-friday-id-conference-chlamydia-trachomatis-understanding-pathogenesis-2013-a-pathway-to-disease-prevention Toni Darville, MD to speak at Friday ID Conference on Friday, April 5th. No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-03-27T19:50:18Z Event Lecture on emerging role of water in global climate negotiations http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/lecture-on-emerging-role-of-water-in-global-climate-negotiations Felix Dodds, former executive director of the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, will deliver a lecture titled “The Emerging Role of Water in the Global Climate Negotiations” at 5:30 p.m. on March 27 in the fourth floor conference room of the FedEx Global Education Center. No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-03-27T19:50:31Z Event Interdisciplinary Health System Development: Experiences in the Post-Soviet Region http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/interdisciplinary-health-system-development-experiences-in-the-post-soviet-region Dr. Philip Davies, Director General of the European Cervical Cancer Association, will give a lecture on March 25th at UNC No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-03-06T20:25:00Z Event Friday ID Conference: HIV/AIDS and Stigma in Vietnam: What Have We Learned? http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/friday-id-conference-hiv-aids-and-stigma-in-vietnam-what-have-we-learned Dr. Khuat Thu Hong and Dr. Le Bach Duong to speak at Friday ID Conference on Friday, March 22nd. No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-02-28T21:00:38Z Event Friday ID Conference: Infectious Disease Surveillance in the Community and Healthcare Setting http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/friday-id-conference-infectious-disease-surveillance-in-the-community-and-healthcare-setting Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, to speak at Friday ID Conference on March 15th. No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-02-28T19:35:00Z Event Friday ID Conference: HIV in the South http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/friday-id-conference-hptn-052-and-treatment-as-prevention-what-happened-next Adaora Adimora, MD, to speak at the Friday ID Conference on March 8th No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-03-04T19:50:00Z Event Friday ID Conference: Health Reform and People Living with HIV/AIDS in a Red State http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/friday-id-conference-health-reform-and-people-living-with-hiv-aids-in-a-red-state Allison Rice, Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School and Supervising Attorney in the Duke AIDS Legal Project and Duke AIDS Policy Project, to speak at ID conference on Friday, March 1st. No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-02-27T20:49:54Z Event Campus visit by Malawian human rights expert Seodi White http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/campus-visit-by-malawian-human-rights-expert-seodi-white Seodi White to speak on February 26th and 27th in Gillings-Rosenau and the FedEx Global Education Center. No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-02-20T21:07:59Z Event Cancer Epidemiology Seminar on Global Cervical Cancer Prevention: From Research to Implementation http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/cancer-epidemiology-seminar-on-global-cervical-cancer-prevention-from-research-to-implementation Jennifer Smith, PhD, to speak about cervical cancer prevention on February 25th, 2013 in the BCBS Auditorium at Gillings School of Public Health. No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-02-18T20:47:28Z Event Friday ID Conference: Reading the Tea Leaves: Can HPTN 052 Work in China? http://www.med.unc.edu/infdis/events/friday-id-conference-reading-the-tea-leaves-can-hptn-052-work-in-china Kumi Smith, PhD student in epidemiology, to speak at Friday ID Conference on February 22nd. No publisher Brenna Kathleen Mcmanus 2013-02-20T20:09:40Z Event