Penn CFAR Annual Research Retreat

Seventh Annual Research Retreat

Agenda

8:00 a.m.

Registration and Breakfast

8:30 a.m.

Welcome: James A. Hoxie, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology
Director, Penn Center for AIDS Research
University of Pennsylvania

8:50 to 9:20 a.m.

Philip R. Johnson, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief Scientific Officer
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
rAAV Vectors: A Multidimensional Gene Delivery System for HIV Vaccines

9:25 to 9:55 a.m.

Ronald S. Veazey, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology, Tulane Medical School
Chair, Division of Comparative Pathology
Tulane National Primate Research Center
Mucosal Pathogenesis of SIV

10:00 to 10:20 a.m.

Break

10:20 to 10:50 a.m.

Gregory Bisson , M.D.
Instructor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
University of Pennsylvania
The Relationship Between Insurance, Cost and Antiretroviral Therapy in Botswana's Private Sector

10:50 to 11:50 a.m.

Beatrice Hahn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Natural Reservoirs of HIV-1

11:50 to 1:05 p.m.

Lunch

1:05 to 1:35 p.m.

Luis Montaner, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Immunology
The Wistar Institute
Neglected No Longer: Innate Immune Function and HIV-1 Pathogenesis

1:40 to 2:10 p.m.

Christopher Coleman, Ph.D., MPH, APRN-BC, ACRN
Assistant Professor of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania
Risky Sexual Behavior Among Middle-Aged and Older HIV Positive African American Men: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Interventions

2:15 to 2:35 p.m.

Beau Ances, M.D., Ph.D.
Resident of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania
A Final Frontier: Applications of Neuroimaging to HIV Encephalopathy

2:40 to 3:40 p.m.

Tom Quinn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease
Viral Kinetics of HIV Transmission: Biomedical Insights into the HIV Pandemic and Avenues for Intervention

3:40 to 5:00 p.m.

Reception and Poster Session