Events

SCOPTIONS meetings are an opportunity for junior investigators doing basic/translational HIV research (mostly using samples from people with HIV enrolled in the SCOPE/Options cohorts) to present their work and get feedback from a diverse audience of HIV investigators across UCSF (and some friends from ~ around the Bay!). We like lots of discussion :) Feel free to bring early data, grant Aims, ideas for collaborations, etc - the meetings are meant for open discussion, and the expectation is that data will not be shared outside of the meeting presentations.

TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY SEMINAR

Friday, March 29, 2024

Madeline Deutsch, MD, MPH 
Director, UC San Francisco Gender Affirming Health Program

Moderated by Will Flanigan 
Graduate Student, Jain Lab, Gladstone Institutes

In celebration of International Transgender Day of Visibility, watch a scientific presentation by Madeline Deutsch, MD, MPH, director of the UC San Francisco (UCSF) Gender Affirming Health Program.

Single cell transcriptomic analysis of lymphoid tissues of methamphetamine exposure in people with HIV 

Felipe Ten Caten, PhD 
Associate Scientist Pathology Advanced and Translational Research Unit (PATRU) 

For the first time in the global response to HIV/AIDS, consensus is emerging that turning the tide against the global pandemic is possible. Treatment of HIV infection has evolved from toxic, complex and relatively brittle to well tolerated, simple and potent. HIV-infection persons, especially if treated early in the course of disease, can expect normal lifespans.

Welcome: Paul A. Volberding, MD and Warner Greene, MD, PhD

Opening Address

• Haile T. Debas, MD
  Dean, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

Morning Session

Moderator: Charles S. Craik, PhD

About the Symposium

The Andy I. Choi Mentoring Program of the UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research offered Bay Area investigators a glimpse into the future of HIV research with a half-day symposium by CFAR mentees. The program featured a group of respected HIV/AIDS investigators from the Mentoring Program and a keynote address from Dr. Sheri Weiser who is the winner of the Academic Senate's Distinction in Mentoring Award. The program will be moderated by Drs. Jonathan Fuchs and Monica Gandhi, Co-Directors of the Andy I. Choi Mentoring Program.

Implementation science is an emerging field focused on closing the gap between efficacious interventions and real world practice. While the HIV research community has enthusiastically embraced the motivation for implementation science, there is far less consensus on the critical approaches to successful conduct of implementation science in the context of the HIV epidemic. Many methodological issues, which have perhaps been less emphasized in traditional clinical research, are particularly salient for knowledge about implementation. External validity is as important as internal validity.