Judith S. Currier, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Co-Director Center for AIDS Research and Education Center (CARE)
Department of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Cardiovascular Disease in HIV: Mechanisms and Potential Interventions

Monday, October 22, 2018
Noon – 1 p.m.
Stonewall Conference Rooms
625 N Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60611

Dr. Currier is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Co-Director of the Center for AIDS Research and Education Center (CARE) in the Department of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is Chair of the NIH sponsored AIDS Clinical Trials Group. Her research has focused on HIV therapeutics and long-term complications of HIV disease with an emphasis on sex differences and antiretroviral therapy, cardiovascular disease, and women’s health.

Lena Al-Harthi, PhD
Professor and Acting Chair
Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity
Rush Medical College

Lena Al-Harthi, PhD is a professor and acting chair in the Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity. She is also the program director of the Rush Initiative to Maximize Student Development, or Rush-IMSD, an NIH-funded training grant for underrepresented minority PhD students enrolled in the PhD in Integrated Biomedical Sciences program in the Graduate College. Her dissertation research was conducted as an NIH pre-intramural research training fellow at the laboratory of tumor cell biology, headed by Robert Gallo, MD, a co-discoverer of HIV and under the mentorship of Suresh Arya, PhD. Her research is focused on understanding mechanism(s) driving HIV neurocognitive disorders (HAND) and HIV latency in the central nervous system. Specifically, she studies the role of astrocytes in HAND and HIV latency. Al-Harthi has more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and reviews and has given many invited talks worldwide relating to HIV pathogenesis, especially in the central nervous system.

Symposium Overview

Join us for the Annual Third Coast CFAR Symposium Ending the HIV Epidemic: Think Globally, Act Locally. This multidisciplinary symposium will draw important connections between HIV research in global settings and the lessons researchers can apply to their domestic work. Examples of the “global to local” approach will include innovations in HIV testing, prevention and care, as well as implementation science approaches to scale up of new interventions, and the role of research on non-communicable diseases and HIV.

Symposium Information

The Annual Third Coast CFAR Symposium, Ending the HIV Epidemic: Think Globally, Act Locally, will take place at the Gordon Center for Integrative Science on Thursday, November 1, 2018.

Announcement for registration and call for abstracts to be released in August 2018.

Third Coast Center for AIDS Research
625 N Michigan Ave.
Suite 1400
Chicago, IL 60611

Gordon Center for Integrative Science
The University of Chicago
929 E. 57^th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

The 2019 Miami Winter Symposium,“Evolving Concepts In HIV & Emerging Viral Infections”, will be held on January 27 –30, 2019.  The deadline for abstract submission is October 19, 2018. More information can be found at  www.miamiwintersymposium.com