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Drug Abuse & HIV/AIDS: The Complexities of Linked Epidemics - Meeting Agenda

November 29, 2005
The National Press Club, Holeman Lounge
529 14th Street, NW (At 14th and F Street), Washington, D.C. 20045

10:30 -
11:30 a.m.		Public Service Announcement Launch/Press Conference
11:30 a.m. -
12:30 p.m.		Lunch (on your own)
12:30 -
12:40 p.m.		Welcome
Nora D. Volkow, M.D.
Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
12:40 -
12:50 p.m.		Overview and Introductions
Jacques Normand, Ph.D.
Director of AIDS Research, Office of the Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
12:50 -
1:10 p.m.		HIV and Drug Abuse in International Settings: Mature Epidemics, Emerging Epidemics, and Countries at Risk
Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D.
Harold Simon Chair and Chief of the Division of International Health and Cross Cultural Medicine in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego
1:10 -
1:30 p.m.		HIV/AIDS Among Drug Abusers in the U.S.
David Vlahov, Ph.D.
Director for the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, The New York Academy of Medicine
1:30 -
1:50 p.m.		Injection Drug Users and Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
Elinore F. McCance-Katz, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman, Addiction Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University
1:50 -
2:10 p.m.		First Half Wrap-up and Discussion
2:10 -
2:30 p.m.		Effects of HIV and Drug Abuse on Executive Brain Function: The Example of Decision-Making
Eileen Martin, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Illinois, Chicago
2:30 -
2:50 p.m.		The Future of Adolescent HIV Prevention in America
Jonathan Ellen, M.D.
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2:50 -
3:10 p.m.		The Case for Routine HIV Testing
Rochelle Walensky, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
3:10 -
3:30 p.m.		Methamphetamine Abuse and HIV Risk
Grant Colfax, M.D.
Director of HIV Prevention Studies, San Francisco Department of Public Health
3:30 -
3:50 p.m.		Drug Abuse Treatment as HIV Prevention
Steven Shoptaw, Ph.D.
Associate Research Psychologist, Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, University of California, Los Angeles; Principal Investigator, Friends Research Institute, Inc.
3:50 -
4:00 p.m.		Wrap-up and Final Discussion




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