San Francisco: Retroviruses Conference Community Forum, Feb. 17

A review of the 7th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections will be held Thursday, February 17, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the Sheraton Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street (at the Montgomery Street BART stop), in San Francisco. Admission is free but persons are asked to RSVP to 415-597-UCSF, or ari@psg.ucsf.edu, to help with planning for light refreshments.

Topics and presenters are:

Pathogenesis--Warner Greene, M.D., Ph.D.;

Treatment update, and a focus on issues for women--Ruth M Greenblatt, M.D.;

Lipodystrophy and related issues--Carl Grunfeld, M.D., Ph.D.;

Resistance testing--Robert M. Grant, M.D., M.P.H.; and

Hepatitis C/HIV co-infection--Ben Cheng, of Project Inform.

The moderators are Thomas J. Coates, Ph.D., and Marcus A. Conant, M.D.

This forum is co-sponsored by the Conant Foundation and the University of California San Francisco AIDS Research Institute, with unrestricted educational grants from Agouron, DuPont, Merck, Roche, Unimed, and ViroLogic.