Thursday, November 6, 2008
Harvard Medical School Virology Program Seminar Series
“The HIV-host interaction: New insights from new tools"
Dr. John Coffin, Tufts University School of Medicine
12:30pm, Harvard Medical School, Bldg C, Cannon Room
For more information about the Virology Program Seminar Series, visit: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/virology/seminarseries.html
co-sponsored by Harvard University Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Partners AIDS Research Center : Seminars in Viral Immunology
“ Mechanisms underlying differential outcomes in primate lentiviral infections”
Jason Brenchley
Immunopathogenesis Unit, Lab of Molecular Microbiology, NIAID, NIH
1:15 - 2:15 pm, Isselbacher Auditorium, 7th Floor, CNY 149 MGH-East, Charlestown
Contact: Galit Alter, PhD (617) 724-0546
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
New England AIDS Education Training Center:
IDSA/ICCAC Update
6:00-9:00pm, Radisson Boston, 200 Stuart Street, Boston
Register Here
Speakers:
Lisa Hirschhorn, MD;
Harvard Medical School, Division of AIDS
Gregory Robbins, MD;
Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital
Participants are invited to bring cases from their own practices for discussion
At the completion of this program participants should be able to:
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Review local challenges to HIV care to global concerns
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Describe new information on HAART
* Relate information on resistance testing and its role in clinical practice
Sponsorship & Funding
Jointly sponsored by: University of Massachusetts Medical School Office of Continuing Medical Education,
New England AIDS Education and Training Center
UMMS Planning Committee: Jennifer Daly, MD, Donna Gallagher, RN, MS, ANP, FAAN
Co-sponsored by: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research
For more information about the update: http://neaetc.org/events/detail.cfm?eventID=1145
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
HIGH Seminar Series
“Strategies to Reduce Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission and Improve Infant Survival in the Developing World”
3:00-4:00, Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 104 Mt. Auburn St , Cambridge MA
Speakers:
Roger Shapiro, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS, Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at HSPH
Shahin Lockman, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS, Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at HSPH
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Harvard Medical School Virology Program Seminar Series
"Antigen Processing in HIV Infection"
Dr. Sylvie Le Gall, Massachusetts General Hospital, Partner AIDS Research Center
12:30pm, Harvard Medical School, Bldg C, Cannon Room
For more information about the Virology Program Seminar Series, visit: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/virology/seminarseries.html
Friday, November 14, 2008
Biostatistics HIV Working Group
12:30-1:30pm, Harvard School of Public Health,
Biostatistics Conference Room Building 2, Room 426
"Operations Research in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic"
Meghan O'Brien, MPH, PhD, Research Director, Center for Strategic HIV Operations Research, Clinton Foundation
View abstract online: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/seminars/hiv.html Sponsored by the Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
AIDS in Afirca: Long-Term Effects of ARV Therapy:
A Scientific Symposium
1:30-6:30pm, Harvard Medical School Conference Center; 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur
Visit the Symposium Website
This symposium will explore challenges to Long-Term Use of Antiretroviral (ARV) Therapy to fight AIDS in Africa. Speakers will discuss current and future impacts of ARVs including: adherence in Uganda; drug resistance in Nigeria; prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Botswana; TB/HIV in South Africa; micronutrients in Tanzania; and economic impact of long-term use.
Speakers include:
• David Bangsberg, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director of International Programs, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research and Partner AIDS Research Center; and Senior Research Scientist, Harvard Initiative for Global Health
• Deborah Cotton, MD, MPH,
MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer and Director, Center for Strategic HIV Operations Research, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative; Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health
• Max Essex, DVM, PhD, Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences; Professor of Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health; Chairman, Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative; Associate Director, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research
• Wafaie Fawzi, DrPH, Professor, Department of Nutrition, Department of Epidemiology, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
• Phyllis Kanki, SD, DVM, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
• Shahin Lockman, MD, Assistant Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
• Jean-Paul Moatti, PhD,
Professor of Economics, Director of INSERM/IRD Research Unit, University of the Mediterranean, Marseille, France & Senior Adviser, Office of the Executive Director, Global Fund, Geneva
This event is sponsored by: Harvard University Global Infectious Diseases Program at Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative and by the Harvard School of Public Health Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Harvard Medical School Virology Program Seminar Series
“Intranuclear Targeting of Herpesviral Replication Compartments and Transcription”
Dr. David Knipe, Harvard Medical School
12:30pm, Harvard Medical School, Bldg C, Cannon Room
For more information about the Virology Program Seminar Series, visit: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/virology/seminarseries.html
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Optimizing Care for Minority Women with HIV/AIDS
Jointly sponsored by Johns Hopkins Medicine Continuing Medical Education and the Institute forJohns Hopkins Nursing
9:00am-3:30pm, Boston Marriott Long Wharf
Registration and Additional Information
CE INFORMATION
Target Audience — This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of infectious disease and HIV/AIDS physicians, internal medicine practitioners, nurses, and other providers of care for minority women with HIV/AIDS.
No prerequisites required.
Fee Information — No fee for this activity.
Jointly sponsored by: Johns Hopkins Medicine Continuing Medical Education and the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing
In Collaboration with:
New England AIDS Education and Training Center, New England HIV Education Consortium, Women of Color Roundtable, Brown Medical School, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research
Supported by Educational grants from: GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb
Monday, November 24, 2008
Third Annual Michael H. Newberg Memorial Lecture:
"Host genetic determinants of HIV-1 control:
the role of rare and common variants"
9:00am, Rabkin Boardroom, 10th floor, Carl J. Shapiro Clinical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Speaker:
David B. Goldstein, PhD; Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology; Director, Center for Population Genomics & Pharmacogenetics, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy,
Duke University
Sponsored by: Beth-Isreal Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research
November 23-25, 2008
A Workshop for Clinical Investigators on:
The Genetics of Complex Disorders
Retrovirology Dinner Club
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
About the workshop:
Recent advances in genetics offer new insights into diseases and have the potential to reshape the clinical landscape. Yet, translating these discoveries into clinical applications remains a major challenge and requires the participation and leadership of individuals and teams involved in patient-centered research.
The aim of this course is to enhance trainees’ understanding of current genetics methodologies used to study complex disorders with an emphasis on clinical translation. And thanks to the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, registration for this course is FREE and those enrolled will receive a stipend for travel expenses.
This three-day course, for a select 20 participants, includes a mix of lectures, symposia, computer workshops, and clinical vignettes designed to highlight genetics applications in the study and treatment of common medical conditions.
Applicants must hold an advanced degree or be enrolled in a doctoral program. Direct involvement in patient-centered research with current or planned projects in the genetics of complex disorders will be viewed most favorably. Women and members of underrepresented ethnic minority groups are encouraged to apply.
Sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
For more about this workshop and how to apply visit www.broad.mit.edu/event/wci
or email events@broad.mit.edu
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Harvard Medical School Virology Program Seminar Series
"A New Human Polyomavirus Associated with Merkel Cell Carcinoma"
Dr. Yuan Chang, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
12:30pm, Harvard Medical School, Bldg C, Cannon Room
For more information about the Virology Program Seminar Series, visit: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/virology/seminarseries.html
co-sponsored by Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) Immunology Program
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Harvard University Center for AIDS Research Presents:
Retrovirology Dinner Club
6:00pm, Dana Building, Room 1620
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Speakers:
"Activation-based inhibition of HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein function"
Hillel Haim, Ph.D.
Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
"Induction of robust cellular and humoral virus-specific adaptive immune responses in HIV-infected humanized mice"
Andrew Tager, M.D.
Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital
Registration is free, but required.
Register Here
Co-sponsored by: Harvard Medical School Division of AIDS
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Harvard Medical School Virology Program Seminar Series
"Mechanism of Adamantane Resistance of Influenza A virus"
Dr. James Chou, Harvard Medical School
12:30pm, Harvard Medical School, Bldg C, Cannon Room
For more information about the Virology Program Seminar Series, visit: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/virology/seminarseries.html
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Harvard Medical School Virology Program Seminar Series
"Small dsRNA Viruses from a Protozoan, Two Fungi and a Crustacean"
Dr. Max Nibert, Harvard Medical School
12:30pm, Harvard Medical School, Bldg C, Cannon Room
For more information about the Virology Program Seminar Series, visit: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/virology/seminarseries.html
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Harvard University Center for AIDS Research Presents:
Retrovirology Dinner Club
6:00pm Smith Building 308/309
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Speakers TBA
Friday, February 20, 2008
Biostatistics HIV Working Group
12:30-1:30pm, Harvard School of Public Health,
Biostatistics Conference Room Building 2, Room 426
Speaker:
Title TBA
Andrea Foulkes, Sc.D. ,
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts School of Public Health and Health Sciences
View abstract online: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostats/events/seminars/hiv.html Sponsored by the Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Weekly Events
Mondays: BWH HIV Conferences
BWH HIV conferences are held on Mondays from 12:30-1:30pm on the 4th floor of the Peter Brent & Brigham Bldg. A in the ID Conference room.
Fridays 8:00 a.m. - CFAR HIV Clinical Conference
This seminar series provides a weekly forum for information exchange among clinical and basic science investigators. It provides rapid updates to clinicians on the latest research advances and allows for informal exchange and updates among researchers in HIV/AIDS community in Boston. Potts Conference Room, Bigelow 8, MGH.
Monthly Events
Virology Seminar Series
The HMS CFAR supports the Virology Seminar Series at the PARC ( Partners AIDS Research Center ) offices at Charlestown Navy Yard. This seminar series provides a forum for information exchange among clinical and basic science investigators. It provides rapid updates to clinicians on the latest research advances and allows for informal exchange and updates among researchers in HIV/AIDS community in Boston.
For more information, please contact Mark Brockman: markbrockman1@partners.org
HMS CFAR Epidemiology and Outcomes Research HIV Clinical Research in Progress Meetings
This year we have a renewed interest in the HIV Clinical Research-In-Progress Conference. Due to a growing number of those conducting HIV clinical research, we have decided to increase the frequency of this meeting to three times monthly. This conference, sponsored by the Program in Epidemiology and Outcomes Research within the Harvard Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), supports HIV clinical research and provides informal, critical, and positive feedback from a multidisciplinary and experienced audience. Presentations will be by both fellows and faculty and can cover the entire research spectrum, from grant ideas to research-in-progress to ongoing data analyses. The conference has three goals: 1) to provide useful ideas and critiques to the presenter, 2) to expand ideas and expertise in research methods in the audience, and 3) to create a forum for increased collaborative research efforts. We are fortunate to have a community of clinicians, clinical and basic science researchers, and statisticians who promote a lively discussion and offer new thoughts on the research being considered.
The meetings will take place three times per month:
1) The 3rd Friday of each month, from 8-9 am during the HIV clinical research conference, as it was last year, in the Potts Conference Room (Bigelow 8th floor) at MGH .
2) The 1st Friday of each month from 9:15-10:15 am (after the regular HIV clinical conference) in the Potts Conference Room (Bigelow 8th floor) at MGH . We suspect that this will be a smaller meeting in terms of numbers of people, but no less energetic or insightful.
3) The 1st Monday of each month, from 12:30-1:30 pm in the BWH ID conference room on the 4 th Floor of Building A, in place of the usual HIV clinical conference (BWH ID division conference room). This is a new time and location and promises to increase involvement and contribution from BWH, BIDMC, Children's, DFCI, HSPH and other Longwood institutions.
We hope to have participants from both sides of town at all of these meetings. Please mark your calendars for the following HIV Clinical Research-In-Progress Conference dates:
First Monday |
First Friday |
Third Friday |
12:30-1:30 pm |
9:15-10:15 am |
8-9 am |
BWH - ID PBB A4 |
MGH - Potts |
MGH - Potts |
If you have a project that you anticipate you would like to present or have any questions about the conference, please call or email Charles Holmes at 617-724-3545 or cbholmes@partners.org or Rochelle Walensky at 617-724-3467 or rwalensky@partners.org
If you are interested in submitting a calendar event to the HMS Division of AIDS/Center for AIDS Research website, please email aids@hms.harvard.edu with the subject "Calendar Submission."
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