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Syphilis & HIV Symposium and the Implementation Science Symposium, September 6, 2018

Syphilis & HIV Symposium and the Implementation Science Symposium, September 6, 2018

Posted on October 04, 2018


Part 1, Syphilis and HIV Symposium:
Framing the Issue
Adena Greenbaum, MD, MPH, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Clinical Services, Baltimore City Health Department

Standard and Point-of-Care Tests for Syphilis and HIV: What Is New?
Charlotte Gaydos, DrPH, MS, MPH

Network Interventions
Jacky Jennings, PhD, MPH

Part 2, Syphilis and HIV Symposium:
Public Health Response: PrEP, PEP, and Serological Screening

Khalil Ghanem, MD, PhD
Panel Discussion: Boots on the Ground
Andrea Wirtz, PhD
Joyce Jones, MD
Kimberly Workowski, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University
Lois Eldred, PA-C, DrPH, MPH


Keynote Speaker
HIV and Syphilis: Implementation Science Priorities
Patrick Sullivan, PhD, DVM, Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University


Part 1, Implementation Science Symposium
Implementation Science: What’s Cooking? What’s for Dinner?

Elvin Geng, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Landscape of NIH-Funded HIV Implementation Research
Justin Dean Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern


Part 2, Implementation Science Symposium
NIH Perspectives on Implementation Science

Paul Gaist, PhD, Behavioral and Social Science, Office of the Director, NIH
Christopher Gordon, PhD, HIV Prevention and Care Continuum, Co-Morbidities, and Translational Research Branch, NIMH, NIH

What would you do? Mini-Case Studies in Implementation Science  
“South Africa’s New Central Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution Program: Assessing the Clinic, Patient, and Community Impact”
Ingrid Bassett, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard
“Data for Care (D4C) Alabama A Clinic-Wide, Risk Stratification Retention in Care Strategy”
Michael Mugavero, MD, MHSc, Professor of Medicine, UAB 
“Assessing the Impact National "Treat All” Policies on Timely ART Initiation in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries”
Denis Nash, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUNY
“Retrofitting' Implementation Science Theory: Can We Apply IS Frameworks Retrospectively to Better Characterize Implementation of a UTT Intervention in Southern African Correctional Facilities?”
Michael Herce, MD, MPH, MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC School of Medicine