Inter-CFAR HIV/TB Working Group webinar with Emily Wong, MD

Friday, July 26, 2019
12:00 p.m. CT / 1:00 p.m. ET

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Anyone interested in joining the Inter-CFAR HIV/TB working group should email Greg Bisson (bisson@pennmedicine.upenn.edu), which will also ensure that they receive future call and webinar information and Zoom call login info.

Engi Attia, MPH, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Washington)

HIV/AIDS-related HLBS Research Webinar Series

“Chronic Lung Disease among Adolescents Living with HIV: Insights from Kenya and the U.S.”

Wednesday, April 10, 2019
11 a.m.- 12 p.m. Central Time

Engi Attia, MPH, MD is the current presenters for the NHLBI HIV/AIDS-related heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) research webinar series. This program serves to highlight state of the art research from experts in the field and provide a platform for disseminating pertinent NHLBI HIV/AIDS-related research announcements. There will also be a short Q&A session to discuss upcoming NHLBI HIV/AIDS funding opportunities.

You may register for the webinar here.

Sumit Chanda, PhD
Director and Professor
Immunity and Pathogenesis
Program Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

“Systems-level Analysis of HIV-Host Interactions”

Monday, April 8, 2019
Noon – 1 p.m. CT
Stonewall Conference Rooms
625 N Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60611

Sumit Chanda earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2001, and received his post-doctoral training at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF). He subsequently transitioned to a Group Leader position, and established his research group in the Division of Cellular Genomics at GNF. In 2007, he joined the Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute as an Associate Professor. Dr. Chanda also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, as well as a Visiting Scientist position at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation.

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Una O’Doherty, MD, PhD
Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

“The HIV Reservoir Is Neither Stable nor Invisible”

Friday, April 5, 2019
Noon – 1 p.m. CT
Stonewall Conference Rooms
625 N Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60611

Dr. Una O’Doherty is a Professor and an Apheresis Physician in the Division of Transfusion Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. O’Doherty studies how treatment resistant reservoirs of HIV are formed and maintained in HIV infected individuals. In the process of these studies, her group discovered that latent infection is favored when T cells in the quiescent state are infected without activation.  Over several years her group showed that directly infected T cells provide a model for the treatment resistant reservoir. This in vitro work led to discoveries which implied that reservoir persistence was not simply controlled by its visibility. Her current work focuses on selection pressures in vivo in a small cohort of individuals chronically infected with HIV and maintained on antiviral therapy.  By performing massive proviral sequencing on banked samples from this cohort over time, her group elucidated the presence of two opposing selective forces in vivo that appear to be driven in part by transcription.

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Nanette Benbow, MAS, BSIS Core Co-Director, will join Alan Greenberg, MD, MPH (DC CFAR) and April Petit MD, MPH (Tennessee CFAR), in an inter-CFAR webinar detailing successful partnerships between CFAR investigators and public health departments.

The University of North Carolina Center for AIDS Research (UNC-CFAR) hosts the inter-CFAR webinar series.

You may register for the webinar here.

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 20, 2019; from 1:00pm – 2:00pm (CST)

Speaker: Michael Busch, MD, PhD (Professor at UCSF; Director of Vitalant Research Institute)

Title: Effects of Early ART and PrEP on HIV Diagnostics and Donor Screening

Registration Link: goo.gl/UHrqnh

Michael Busch, MD, PhD is the current presenter for the NHLBI HIV/AIDS-related heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) research webinar series. This program serves to highlight state of the art research from experts in the field and provide a platform for disseminating pertinent NHLBI HIV/AIDS-related research announcements. There will also be a short Q&A session to discuss upcoming NHLBI HIV/AIDS funding opportunities.

In 1999, a man came into San Francisco City Clinic and was diagnosed with syphilis. He had had sex with many men but didn’t know their names, although they were all members of the same SF-based AOL chat room. The rest is history. From early interventions such as inSPOT, online partner notification, to modern mobile apps and social media, digital programs continue to show much promise in stemming the tide of the epidemic.

In this talk, Deb will cover early digital HIV prevention program development in concert with the SF community, evidence-based studies and literature reviews, and how-tos for more recent work on social media sites like Snapchat and Instagram.

Deb Levine, BSW, MA is the Founder and Former Executive Director of YTH (youth+tech+health) from 2001-2014. Currently, she is the Principal at her new consulting company, Tech Strategy Consultants. She has won many awards for her work in digital health for youth, including a White House – HHS award for a mobile app for college students, and a citation in former President Clinton’s report on Education and the Internet for her ground-breaking work on Columbia University’s Go Ask Alice. She has degrees from Cornell University and New York University, and is raising two teenagers in Oakland, CA.

This event is Co-sponsored with the The Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH).

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Institute for Public Health and Medicine Seminar Series:

“Bridging the Knowledge and Quality Gap: Using Implementation Research in Global Health to Accelerate Change (and how Rwanda succeeded in reducing child mortality)”

Lisa R. Hirschhorn, MD, MPH
Professor of Medical Social Sciences, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Join the Institute for Public Health and Medicine for engaging speakers on relevant research in public health. CME credit is available for most seminars. Lunch is provided on a first-come, first served basis.

Details are subject to change. The latest information can be found on the Seminar Series webpage: feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/ipham/events

Dr. Jessica Ridgway and Professor Rayid Ghani will present the results of their projects funded by CFAR Pilot awards. These projects funded by CFAR will focus on the HIV-related predictive analytics and machine learning.

“Predictive Analytics for Retention in HIV Care” 

Jessica P. Ridgway, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health
The University of Chicago

Dr. Ridgway is the Director of Predictive Analytics for the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination at the University of Chicago and her research focuses on the use of informatics and predictive analytics to improve HIV treatment and prevention. She is particularly interested in how electronic medical record data can be harnessed to improve HIV prevention and care across the HIV care continuum.

“Combining Human Knowledge and Machine Learning to Increase Retention in Care for HIV Patients” 

Rayid Ghani
Research Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science 
Senior Fellow, Harris School of Public Policy 
Director, Center for Data Science and Public Policy 
The University of Chicago

Professor Rayid Ghani is the Director of the Center for Data Science and Public Policy, Research Director and Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute, and a Senior Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Ghani’s work has spanned from general machine learning and data science to privacy preserving data analysis, text analysis, semi-supervised learning, active learning, information retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and knowledge management. Most of Ghani’s work has focused on developing and using machine learning & data mining approaches to solve large-scale problems in corporate, political, and non-profit areas.

Grand Rounds Conference

8:00 am-9:00 am

Prentice, 3rd floor, Canning Auditorium

Presented by:  

Sharlay Kimberly Butler, MD

Fourth Year Resident

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Northwestern University

Francois Villinger, DVM
Professor,Department of Biology 
Director, New Iberia Research Center
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Dr. François Villinger is a DVM from the University of Zurich, with over 30 years of research in infectious diseases, vaccines and immune responses using Nonhuman primate models of human diseases. Before taking the lead at the New Iberia Research Center in late 2015, he was a Professor of Pathology at the Emory School of Medicine and Associate Director for Pathology at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta. His main research focus has been on HIV models, and the development of tools and reagents specific for nonhuman primate investigations. Recently he has spearheaded a whole body to single cell analysis of immune mechanisms and viral dynamics in real time.