2012 Annual Meeting Presentations

 

Presentations from the plenary sessions are posted if permission is granted by the author.

 

HPTN Plenary
Monday June 25, 2012
8:15 am - 3:15 pm

Session 1: HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Priorities -

Moderators: Quarraisha Abdool Karim, CAPRISA and Carl Dieffenbach, NIH/NIAID/DAIDS

Update on Network Structure and Priorities

Wafaa El-Sadr, Columbia University
Sten Vermund, Vanderbilt University

Prevention Priorities in the US

Greg Millett,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Combination Prevention: HPTN 071

Sarah Fidler, Imperial College

Session 2:  Recruiting Populations of High Risk: What’s Next?

Moderators: Deborah Donnell, SCHARP/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and
Darrell Wheeler, Loyola University Chicago
Treating Addiction for HIV Prevention: HPTN 058 David Metzger, University of Pennsylvania
HPTN 064+ and Women at Risk Sally Hodder, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
MSM Agenda: HPTN 061 and HPTN 073 Ken Mayer, Fenway Community Health Center  Darrell Wheeler, Loyola University
Mapping the Evolution of the HPTN Community Program and Recruiting Populations at High Risk Janet Frohlich, CAPRISA, University of KwaZulu Natal
Session 3: PrEP

Moderators: Mike Cohen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
Beatriz Grinsztejn, Instituto de Pesquisa Clinica Evandro Chagas-FIOCRUZ
Trying to make sense out of oral and topical PrEP trials: Using little studies to understand big studies Craig Hendrix, Johns Hopkins University
Adherence, Drug Concentration and PrEP Efficacy for HIV Prevention Jim Hughes, University of Washington
Ethical Issues of PrEP Jeremy Sugarman, Johns Hopkins University

Session 4: Capacity Building and Recognition

Moderators: Sten Vermund, Vanderbilt University and Wafaa El-Sadr, Columbia University
HPTN Scholars Program - Wheeler

HPTN Scholars Program - Irvin

 Darrell Wheeler, Loyola University

Risha Irvin,
San Francisco Department of Public Health
HPTN Network Evaluation; HPTN Network Awards Nirupama Sista, FHI 360

 

 

 Joint HPTN-IMPAACT Plenary Session

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

8:15 am - 2:30 pm 

Session 1: Opening Plenary

Moderators: Sten Vermund and Brooks Jackson

NIH HIV/AIDS Prevention Priorities

Carl Dieffenbach, NIH/NIAID/ DAIDS

State of the Network: IMPAACT

Brooks Jackson, Johns Hopkins University

State of the Network: HPTN

Sten Vermund, Vanderbilt University

Wafaa El-Sadr, Columbia University

Update on Implementation of the National HIV Strategy

Grant Colfax, Director,
Office of National AIDS Policy

Session 2: Current and Future Prevention Science

Part I – Moderated by David Serwadda, Makerere University and James McIntyre, Anova Health Institute

Fertility intentions and hormonal contraception

Ward Cates, FHI 360

Preventing Acute HIV Infection in Pregnant and Nursing Mothers: Importance & Barriers to Study Development

Caroline Mitchell, University of Washington

PrEP: New drugs, formulations, and evaluations

Roy (Trip) Gulick,
Weill Cornell Medical College

Stopping the epidemic

Chris Collins,
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research

Session 3: Current and Future Prevention Science

Part II – Moderated by Audrey Pettifor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) and
Pat Flynn, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

ART as Prevention: HPTN 052+

Myron Cohen,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Perinatally infected adolescents and young adults

Linda Koenig,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Optimizing Biomedical HIV Prevention Through Complementary Behavioral and Social Sciences Strategies 

Ralph Di Clemente and Gina Wingood,
Emory University