Houston, April 30: Eleventh Annual Houston Conference on AIDS in America
Leading treatment experts will address a one-day AIDS meeting focusing on clinical information, in Houston, Texas, on April 30. Judging from previous years, about 2,000 people are expected to attend. Topics and speakers include:
"The Use of Antiretroviral Therapies" by Martin Markowitz, M.D., Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center;
"Interactions Involving Drugs Used in the Treatment of HIV/AIDS" by Charles Flexner, M.D., Johns Hopkins Hospital;
"HIV Disease in Children" by Mark Kline, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine;
"Immune Based Therapies" by Brenda Lein of Project Immune Restoration at Project Inform;
"Recent Progress in the Clearing of HIV Reservoirs" by Robert Siliciano, M.D., Johns Hopkins Hospital;
"Ethics: Advertising, Access and Research" by Mark Harrington, Treatment Action Group, New York;
"Immune Reconstitution in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy" by Fred Valentine, M.D., New York University School of Medicine; and
"Vaccines for the Prevention of HIV Infection" by Sam Avrett, M.P.H., AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition.
This event is free and open to the public. Continuing medical education credit is available (there is a $25 fee for the credit). The meeting will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Friday April 30, with registration and continental breakfast starting at 7:00 a.m. and the first talk at 8:00 a.m. Advance registration is recommended; call International Meeting Managers Inc. at 713-965-0566.
