STRECKER AWARD LECTURE AND RECEPTION

Dan G. Blazer, MD, PhD - STRECKER AWARD LECTURE AND RECEPTION
JP Gibbons Professor 

Vice Chair of Faculty Development

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Duke University School of Medicine
“Substance Use in the Elderly: An Epidemiologic Look to the Future”

Location:   BRB II/III Auditorium

Kurt Beam, Ph.D.
Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics
University of Colorado-Denver  

 "Reverse translational insights into calcium channel function in skeletal muscle"

 4-5pm in B404 Richards Building

University of Pennsylvania & Abramson Cancer Center, RBI Retreat

May 9th, 2013  8:30am-5:00pm 

Guest Lecturers:

Piotr Grodzinski, PhD, Director of NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer

Shuming Nie, PhD, Emory-Georgia Tech Cancer Nanotechnology Center

Tayyaba Hasan, PhD, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard

Organizers:

A Biobehavioral Approach to HIV Management and Prevention

Among Adolescents and Young Women

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Location:  14^th Floor, Biomedical Research Building II/III,  421 Curie Blvd., 19104

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8:30 – 8:55 a.m.       Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:55 – 9:00 a.m.       Welcome by Anne Teitelman and Cori Schreiber

                                    Introduction of Keynote Speaker

9:00 – 9:40 a.m.       Judith Auerbach, Ph.D.  

                                    Independent Science & Policy Consultant, San Francisco, CA

Formerly, VP for Research/Evaluation, San Francisco AIDS Foundation; and

VP for Public Policy & Program Development, amfAR

9:45 – 10:35 a.m.    Panel: Biological strategies for HIV prevention: Innovations and challenges in implementation

                                    Cynthia Mollen, M.D., MSCE

Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Penn, Co-Scientific Director at Policy Lab at Children’s Hospital

                                    Expedited partner therapy

                                    Kurt Barnhart, M.D., MSCE

                                    Professor of OB/GYN, University of Pennsylvania

                                    Microbicides

10:30- 10:45            BREAK

10:45 – 11:40 a.m.  Panel: Behavioral strategies for HIV prevention:  Individual and social determinants of HIV prevention behaviors

Loretta Jemmott, Anne Teitelman, Bridgette Brawner, TG Ghose, David Metzger

11:40 – 12:10 p.m.  Panel: Community strategies for HIV prevention: Preventing sexually transmitted diseases acquisition among high risk youth         

                                    Jasmine Oglesby and Erica Smith

                                    Social Workers, Youth Study Center

12:10 – 1:05 p.m.    LUNCH:  Working Groups

1:05 – 1:55 p.m.       Panel: Biological approaches for HIV Treatment: Innovations and challenges in Implementation

Carrie Kovarik, M.D.

                                    Associate Professor of Dermatology

                                    Innovative approach to cervical cancer prevention in women with HIV

                                  Laura Bamford, M.D., MSCE

                                    Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Penn; Staff Physician, The Lax Center

Biologic and behavioral treatment adherence issues for young African-American women in Philadelphia

Karam Mounzer, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine of Medicine/ID at Penn, Medical Director of Philadelphia FIGHT

Safe Conception in HIV serodiscordant couples

1:55 – 2:40 p.m.       Panel: Behavioral issues in HIV Treatment: Adherence innovations and challenges             

Nadia Dowshen, M.D. 

Director, Adolescent HIV Services at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Penn

                                    Adherence using technology (suggested topic – she can choose)

                                    Liz Lowenthal, M.D., MSCE, AAHIVS

                                    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

                                    Adherence, global issues (suggested topic – she can choose)

                                    Robert Gross, M.D., MSCE

                                    Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

                                    Adherence issues locally and globally (suggested topic – he chooses)

2:40 – 2:50 p.m.       BREAK

2:50 – 3:30 p.m.       Panel: Community issues for young women living with HIV           

                                    Mary Tanney, RN, MSN, CRNP, MPH

Research Manager, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

                                    Adolescent HIV initiative

                           Rashidah Abdul-Khabeer, RN, MHS, Ph.D.

Director, HIV Services at Family Planning Council

Young women from Circle of Care

                                    Topic: Transition issues for young women with HIV: from adolescent to young adult

3:30 – 4:15 p.m.       Working Groups to discuss afternoon panel discussions

4:15 – 5:15 p.m.       Summary; Wrap Up Session/Action Items

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Sponsored by the Penn Center for AIDS Research and the

Center for Health Equity Research in the School of Nursing

Rodebaugh Diabetes Center Conference Series Presents:

Topic: Research Update

Yale School of Medicine

“Bidirectional interactions between the immune system and metabolism”

Austrian Auditorium, CRB