2020 Annual Meeting

Welcome to the Virtual Edition of the Annual CFAR Symposium. Please use the tabs on the left to navigate this year's Polk Lecture, Presentations, and Poster Session

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Scientific Working Group Presentations

 HIV Cure SWG

  • Francesco R Simonetti, MD –: “Contribution of recurrent antigen exposure to HIV Persistence”

Central Nervous System Dysfunction SWG

  • Dionna W. Williams, PhD – : “Associations between ART drugs on neuropsychiatric symptoms among women with HIV”

Adolescent and Young Adult SWG

  • Renata Arrington Sanders, MD, MPH, ScM – : “AYA SWG PUSH: Providing Unique Support for Health to Identify & Engage Young Black Latino Cisgender MSM & Transgender Women ”

Core Presentations

BEM Core

  • Catherine Lesko, PhD : “Censoring for loss to follow-up in time-to-event analyses of composite outcomes or in the presence of competing risks”
  • Aruna Chandran, MD: “A Local Health Tool to Quantify Potential Gains in Life Expectancy”

 

Prevention Core

  • Zoe Hendrickson, PhD: “ Exploring how mobile technologies can foster social cohesion, facilitate use of HIV care and treatment services, and improve HIV outcomes among mobile female sex workers in Iringa, Tanzania ”
  • Corinne Joshu, PhD: “Characterizing screening for and incidence of non-AIDS-defining cancers among people living with HIV in the US”

 

Clinical Core 

  • Seun Falade-Nwulia MBBS, MPH: “Ego Network Structure of Hepatitis C Infected People who inject drugs (PWID) in Baltimore: Implications for Intervention Development”
  • Steve Berry, MD : “A Hospital HIV Support Team to Improve Medication Safety and Engagement in Outpatient HIV Care”

 

Lab Core

  • Jeffrey Tornheim, MD, MPH: “Biomarkers for diagnosis and test of cure for TB”
  • Michael Rosenblum, PhD: “Estimating the Protective Effect of Longitudinal Drug Concentration in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention”

B. Frank Polk Lecture

  • Sharon Hillier, PhD | Richard Sweet Professor of Reproductive Infectious Disease | Vice-Chair for Faculty Affairs, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Magee-Womens Research Institute | “Why We Need More Options to Improve Choices in HIV Prevention”

Poster Session

 

  • Steven Clipman: Phylogenetic Evidence for Intercity HCV Clusters of People Who Inject Drugs in India
  • Rachel Gicquelais: Association of Overdose and Injection Practices with Drug Use Typologies: A Latent Class Analysis among People who Inject Drugs in Baltimore, 2017
  • Jeanine Gnang: The Effect of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Class, Alcohol and Hepatitis C on FIB-4 Change Among Patients who Initiated ART Between 2011-2016