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 2011 Course
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|
Jim Hoxie |
Introduction and Overview |
Ron Collman |
Patho-physiology of HIV |
| Rahul Kohli | APOBEC3G and Vif |
Carl June |
HIV and Biologic Therapeutics |
Drew Weissman |
HIV Immunology |
Ian Frank |
Antiretroviral Treatment: Successes and Failures |
Rick Rutstein |
Perinatal Transmission |
Benoit Dube |
HIV and Mental Illness: Psychiatry |
David Weiner |
HIV Vaccines |
David Metzger |
HIV Prevention Research |
Jane Shull |
Activists and the HIV Epidemic: How Activism Started and Where We are Now |
George Shaw |
HIV Transmission and Acute Infection |
Lisa Espinosa |
HIV Prevention Counseling |
Kathleen Brady |
Epidemiology of HIV |
Waheeda Shabazz-El |
HIV Prevention Justice |
Vin Lo Re |
Translational Research in HIV/HCV |
Robert Gross |
Adherence Botswana |
| Liz Lowenthal | Global HIV in Kids |
| Luis Montaner | Innate Immunity |