Invited Speakers
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What’s new in pharmacogenomics and pharmacokinetics in HIV- infected children
Edmund Caparelli, 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 ...
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Immune inflammatory reconstitution syndrome in HIV-infected children
Mark Coton, MD. obtained his medical degree at the University of Cape Town in 1979. He specialized in Paediatrics at the University of Witwatersrand where he developed an interest in infectious diseases. In 1988, he relocated to Tygerberg Academic Hospital where he studied TB meningitis. Between 1991 and 1995 he undertook a Fellowship in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the ...
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Update and Controversies in Pediatric Virology
Anita De Rossi , PhD. is Professor of Pathology, Head of Viral Oncology Unit and AIDS Reference Center, Medical School, University of Padova. Dr De Rossi has been working at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA, Laboratory of Viral Carcinogenesis (Prof. P Fischinger, Head), and Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology ( Prof. R. Gallo, Head). ...
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Management of HIV infection and Tuberculosis in children
Shabir A Madhi , F.C. Paed. qualified as a Paediatricain at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 1996. He has been involved in research on opportunistic infections in HIV-infected children and vaccine preventable diseases for the past 13 years. He has published widely on the impact of HIV ...
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Update and Controversies on prevention of mother to child transmission
Lynne M. Mofenson , MD. is a Board-certified pediatrician and infectious disease specialist. She received her medical degree with honors from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1977, followed by a pediatric residency at Boston Children’s Hospital and a Chief Residency followed by infectious disease fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. ...
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Update and Controversies in Pediatric Immunology
Savita Pahwa , MD. is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and Professor in Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Miami (UM) Miller School of Medicine in Miami, USA and serves as the Director of the UM developmental Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). Dr Pahwa’s expertise is in immunology and immune deficiency diseases and ...
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Challenges of HIV infection in adolescents: Newly infected and aging-up perinatally infect
Pat Flynn , MD. is a Member in the Department of Infectious Diseases at SJCRH where she holds the Arthur Ashe Chair in Pediatric AIDS Research. She is also Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She received her medical training at Louisiana State University Medical Center (1981) and completed Pediatric (1984) and Pediatric Infectious Diseases (1987) ...
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Advances in early infant diagnosis
Susan A. Fiscus PhD. is Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received a B.S. from Bates College, M.A. from Duke University, and Ph.D. from Colorado State University. Dr. Fiscus is currently Central Laboratory Principal Investigator for the ...
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Controversies in initial therapy of HIV-infected children, focused on resource-limited set
Avy Violari , F.C. Paed. runs the paediatric division of the Perinatal HIV Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand, based at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. She trained in Paediatrics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg She has been involved in the design and implementation of large paediatric
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Controversies in initial therapy of HIV-infected treatment experienced children, focused o
Andrew Wiznia , MD. is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) and the Director of HIV Services at the Jacobi Medical Center, both located in the Bronx, New York. He has been providing care to HIV infected children and their families for 24 years, initially as an allergy/immunology fellow at AECOM. He is currently the ...
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