Symposium / Conference / Workshop

We are excited to present our next CFAR-Wide Webinar, which will be on Monday, October 26 from 3:30-4:30pm ET. Join us to hear from Dr. Karen Parker, Director of the NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO). Please share this information widely with your CFAR members.

Speaker: Dr. Karen L. Parker, Ph.D., M.S.W. (Director, NIH SGMRO)
Topic: Sexual & Gender Minority Research at NIH: Past, Present, and Future Directions
Date and time: Monday October 26^th, 3:30pm-4:30pm ET

Discussion and Q&A moderated by Dr. Kenneth Mayer, MD

Dr. Mayer is Director of the HU CFAR Bio-Behavioral and Community Science Core,

Medical Research Director and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute,

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor, Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard School of Public Health

Presenter:

Raphael J. Landovitz, MD MSc

Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

"Covid-19 Update: The ICU Experience in New York, the UCSF Mission and Bolinas Community Studies, and the Uses and Limitations of Antibody Testing”

You are invited to participate in the first webinar of the CFAR Faith and Spirituality Research Collaborative (CFSRC) summer webinar series. Please see the attached flyer.

Registration: PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE A TRAINING PROFILE IN THE UNC NCHTEC training database in order to register. You only need to do this once and if you set up your profile previously go directly to registration.

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Description: Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) will co-host the World TB Day Symposium with the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis in San Francisco. The event will honor CITC’s 25th anniversary and feature keynote talks and panel discussions by international leaders in TB research, policy, and clinical and programmatic practice. Dr. Payam Nahid, Director of the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis, and Dr. Lisa Chen, CITC’s Principal Investigator, will co-moderate the symposium.

https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/7799804337

Presenter: Michael Peluso, MD

SCOPTIONS meetings are an opportunity for junior investigators doing basic/translational HIV research (mostly using samples from HIV-infected individuals enrolled in the SCOPE/Options cohorts) to present their work and get feedback from a diverse audience of HIV investigators. Feel free to bring early data, grant Aims, ideas for collaborations, etc! We like discussion :) Presentation time, including discussion, runs usually ~50min.

In October, 2019, the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) received $628,000 in Ending the Epidemic grant funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH). The NIH awarded the grants through a competitive application and review process, funding the following studies. We’ll hear brief presentations from each of the grant recipients!

Hong-Ha Truong, PhD: Enhancing Partner Notification for Newly-Diagnosed, Sexually Active High Risk MSM

Presenter: Sara Moron-Lopez, PhD

SCOPTIONS meetings are an opportunity for junior investigators doing basic/translational HIV research (mostly using samples from HIV-infected individuals enrolled in the SCOPE/Options cohorts) to present their work and get feedback from a diverse audience of HIV investigators. Feel free to bring early data, grant Aims, ideas for collaborations, etc! We like discussion :) Presentation time, including discussion, runs usually ~50min.