Telephone Conference Call June 7 on HIV Treatment
On a June 7 interactive telephone conference open to the public, three leading HIV physicians will review the 9th Annual Clinical Care Options for HIV Symposium, a June 3-6 meeting for frontline HIV physicians. Major topics at this meeting include new approaches to HIV therapy, resistance testing, lipodystrophy, metabolic abnormalities, vaccines, liver disorders, management of HIV disease, and treatment activism. You can participate in the teleconference and ask questions, or you can call in to hear a recording later. The teleconference is free, and the calls are toll-free in the U.S.The physicians reviewing the highlights of the Symposium are:
Donald Kotler, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
W. David Hardy, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine;
Stephen Becker, M.D., private practice in San Francisco, CA.
The call will be moderated by Ronald Baker, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, HIVandHepatitis.com. It is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Roche Laboratories.
The teleconference will be Monday, June 7, 1999, 5 p.m. Pacific time (8 p.m. Eastern time). To participate in the live call, you must register in advance by calling 1-800-880-5121 (first-names only); in order to ask questions during the call, you need to be using a touch-tone phone.
Another way to question the panel is to email them in advance to HIVTxLive@aol.com.
You can hear a replay of the call later by calling 1-888-207-2647, pass code 1393; it may take up to 24 hours after the call for the replay to be set up. Also, a transcript will be available about two weeks after the call, at (website no longer available). No registration is necessary to hear the tape or obtain the transcript.
Comment
A major advantage of this teleconference (and others in the series) is that later, anyone in the U.S. can call without charge, 24 hours a day from any phone, to hear an expert discussion of current HIV treatment, and prospects for the future.
