New conference for frontline clinicians, September 15-18.A new conference for HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, NPs, PAs, psychologists, case managers, and others, organized by 10 agencies of the U.S. government, will take place September 15-18 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, in Atlanta, Georgia. Highlighted topics include initial treatment for HIV, treatment strategies for late HIV, comprehensive care and management, prevention, and associated infections and malignancies. The registration fee has been kept low: $250 general registration for the four-day meeting, $175 student or trainee (including the cost for continuing medical education continuing medical education See CME. credit). The program committee is co-chaired by Paul Volberding, M.D., of the Center for AIDS Research at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , and Victoria Cargill, M.D. of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services--and includes 30 other experts. The steering committee is co-chaired by Lawrence Deyton, M.D., of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, along with doctors Cargill and Volberding. John Bartlett, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. will give the keynote talk. For more information visit the official conference Web site, http://www.USHIVconference.org. |
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