Frontiers in Medicine Course on AIDS/HIV
As part of the Perelman School of Medicine's highly innovative "Curriculum 2000™" program, the Penn CFAR sponsors a two-week elective course on AIDS offered to fourth-year medical students as part of the Curriculum's "Frontiers in Medicine" Program. THis course has been designed for individuals who are soon to graduate and who have expressed an interest in obtaining an in-depth learning experience about HIV/AIDS. The CFAR Course provides integrated, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art information on clinical, basic, behavioral and epidemiological research issues in HIV/AIDS as well as on issues in other areas including those pertaining to economics, ethics, quality of life, and the role of pharmaceutical industry in the epidemic. Dr. Janet Hines, an Infectious Disease clinician with extensive experience in the HIV Clinical at HUP, designed this course with assistance from the CFAR's Administrative Core.
Course Topics and Speakers from the Fall 2012 Course
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|
Jim Hoxie |
Introduction and Overview |
| Katie Bar | Founder Virus |
| Kathleen Brady | Epidemiology of HIV |
Ron Collman |
Patho-physiology of HIV |
| Benoit Dube | HIV and Mental Illness: Psychiatry |
| Lisa Espinosa | HIV Prevention Counseling |
| Ian Frank | Antiretroviral Treatment: Successes and Failures |
| Rahul Kohli | APOBEC3G and Vif |
Carl June |
HIV and Biologic Therapeutics |
Liz Lowenthal |
Global HIV in Kids |
| David Metzger | Drug Treatment as HIV Prevention |
Luis Montaner |
Innate Immunity |
Rick Rutstein |
Perinatal Transmission |
George Shaw |
HIV Transmission and Acute Infection |
Jane Shull |
Activists and the HIV Epidemic: How Activism Started and Where We are Now |
David Weiner |
HIV Vaccines |
| Drew Weissman | HIV Immunology |