Committees
Three committees are active in the organization of the workshop together with the organizing secretariat.
The members of the Organizing Committee (OC) discuss on frequent basis the scientific program of the workshop, identify interesting topics and candidate speakers and review all submitted abstracts.
The members of Scientific Committee (SC) assist the OC by providing them with suggestions for speakers and topics. In addition, members of the Scientific Committee actively participate in reviewing submitted abstracts.
The members of the Liaison Committee assist the Organizing Committee with providing topics that would be able to update the audience on the research in the pharmaceutical industry on pediatric treatment and prevention of mother to child transmission.
Organizing Committee:
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Jintanat Ananworanich, MD, PhD (Chair 2011)
Jintanat Ananworanich, MD, PhD is a pediatric immunologist and Deputy Director of the HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration (HIV-NAT), the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center in Bangkok. Her research interest is in antiretroviral treatment strategies and regimens for children and adults, and in acute HIV infection. She has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications on HIV. ...
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Charles Boucher MD, PhD
Dr. Boucher, MD, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Virology Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dr Boucher received his medical degree cum laude from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Specializing in medical microbiology, he also received a PhD degree from that institution. Since then, Dr Boucher has been a research assistant at the University of Amsterdam and a visiting fellow at Wellcome Research Laboratories in Beckenham, England. ...
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David Burger, PharmD, PhD
Dr. Burger, PharmD, PhD received his Pharmacy Degree at the Utrecht University in 1990. After fulfilling his military service in 1991, he completed his PhD thesis, titled “Bio-analysis and clinical pharmacokinetics of antiretroviral agents in HIV-infected individuals” at the Slotervaart Hospital, Amsterdam, in 1994. After this, he moved to the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre for his hospital pharmacist training. ...
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Edmund Capparelli, PharmD
Edmund Capparelli, PharmD is the currently a Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for the School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Capparelli received his Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of California San Francisco in 1985 followed by fellowship training at Hartford Hospital and the University of California Irvine. ...
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Mark Cotton, MD, PhD
Mark Cotton, MD, PhD is Head of Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Director of the Children’s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit (KID-CRU) at Tygerberg Children’s Hospital (TCH), Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University. He completed a 3 year fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at University of Colorado- Denver, and also conducted laboratory-based research ...
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Carlo Giaquinto, MD
Carlo Giaquinto, MD graduated in Medicine (1982) and specialised in Pediatrics (1986) at the University of Padova, he is full time paediatrician at the Department of Paediatric of Padova and Head of the Paediatric AIDS and Clinical Research Unit. He is President of Fondazione Penta and Fondazione C.A.R.A.P. ...
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Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, MBChB, MMed, MPH
Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, MBChB, MMed, MPH is a medical epidemiologist with specialist training in pediatrics, infectious disease and child health. She is currently Senior HIV Specialist at UNICEF, serving in the East and Southern Africa Region where her main focus is on PMTCT and Paediatric HIV. A public health professional with over fifteen years of experience in academia, public sector work, ...
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Lynne Mofenson MD (Chair 2011)
Dr. Mofenson MD received her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine with honors in 1977. She completed as pediatric residency at Boston Children’s Hospital, followed by Pediatric Chief Residency and an adult/pediatric infectious disease fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is currently Chief, Pediatric, Adolescent & Maternal AIDS Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, ...
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