HIV Care 2008: Antiretroviral Therapy, Hepatitis B/C, Addiction, and Adherence
Monday, May 5, 2008
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Friday Center for Adult Education
Chapel Hill, NC
Registration is now open for UNC-CH's annual update on HIV. This year's topics will cover HIV and methamphetamine use, HIV and diabetes/cardiovascular disease, current antiretroviral therapies, the HIV epidemic in North Carolina, and mental illness and substance abuse in the HIV patient. Speakers include physicians Joel Gallant, Christopher Hurt, Michelle Floris-Moore, Rajesh Gandhi, Joel Palefsky, and Peter Leone, and mental health expert Wally Kisthardt, PhD, MSW.
Attendees can earn up to 6.75 hours of CME credit.
To register, visit http://www.gahec.org/CE/default.htm.
World AIDS Day 2007: 9th Annual HIV/AIDS Symposium will be held on Friday, November 30, 2007, from 9:30-3:00. It will be held in Rm. 136 in Tate-Turner-Kuralt (School of Social Work). Registration is on a first come, first served basis. Please register early (on-line at http://cfar.med.unc.edu) in order to guarantee your attendance at this important, FREE event. Lunch will be provided. The flyer can be downloaded here.
1st Annual Andrew H. Kaplan, MD, Memorial Lecture
Thursday, November 15th, 2007, Noon
4th Floor Old Clinic Building Auditorium
Next Thursday, November 15th, the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds (12 pm, Clinical Auditorium, 4th Floor Old Clinic Building), will be in memory of Dr. Andrew Kaplan, our friend and colleague. The speaker will be Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, MD, MHS, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His talk is entitled: The Epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes and Its Complications in African Americans. Dr. Brancati was a childhood friend of Dr. Kaplan and is a noted scholar.
Andrew Kaplan graduated from Harvard College in 1981 and from Columbia University School of Medicine in 1985. He first came to UNC as a resident in internal medicine (1985-1988) when he joined the Division of Infectious Diseases as an ID fellow and began working in Ronald Swanstrom’s laboratory on HIV. That was the beginning of a productive career at UNC, at UCLA and then back at UNC as a faculty member and colleague. At the time of his sudden death on June 28, 2006, he had three current NIH RO-1 awards and ran the ID Fellowship Training Program. Beyond his scholarship, he was known as a superb clinician and a beloved teacher on the hospital wards. He was a wonderful colleague with a great sense of humor who is dearly missed.
He died leaving his widow, Carol Golin, MD, a member of the UNC faculty and his children Daniel (13 years old) and Emily (10 years old). We have established The Andrew H. Kaplan Memorial Lectureship within the Infectious Diseases Division here at UNC Chapel Hill. For those of you wishing to remember Andy by contributing to this effort please send a check to The Andrew Kaplan Fund, mailed to LouAnne Loschin, ID Division CB 7030, Department of Medicine, Rm 2118D Bioinformatics Bldg., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7030.
*The Dean's Lecture Series: Public Health Transformation for the 21st Century*
Register at www.sph.unc.edu/events or *by Monday, October 29, or call (919) 966-0198.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
4:00 p.m. Lecture
5:00 p.m. Reception
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation Auditorium Michael Hooker Research Center The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"28: Telling the Human Stories Behind Africa's AIDS Pandemic"
Stephanie Nolen
Africa Correspondent, Globe and Mail (Canada's National Newspaper)
Stephanie Nolen lives in Johannesburg and writes about the impact of the AIDS pandemic in Africa for Canada’s national newspaper. She also reports on a wide range of other issues, including the political crisis in Zimbabwe, the oil industry in Nigeria, the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2003, 2004, and 2006, she was honored with the Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Reporting from war zones in Uganda and Sudan and has twice won the International Reporting award. Nolen is the author of three books—28: Stories of AIDS in Africa, Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race and Shakespeare’s Face. Born in Montreal, she is a graduate of the University of King’s College in Halifax and the London School of Economics.
The author will sign copies of her latest book, 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa, which will be available for purchase at the reception.
For more information, please contact the Office of External Affairs at (919) 966-0198.