HIV/AIDS

 


MATEP: Annual HIV/AIDS Treatment Update Symposium

The Midwest AIDS Training Education Partners (MATEP) initiated this symposium twelve years ago. This is the largest, continually held HIV treatment update symposium in Chicago and the Midwest.

MATEP’ s Annual HIV Treatment Symposium follows and includes highlights of a major international HIV/AIDS symposium. Last year, the eleventh MATEP Update, featured highlights from the IV International AIDS Conference in Sydney Australia (2007). This year the 12th MATEP HIV Update will report on the 2008 World AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Mexico.
The MATEP partners are the Hektoen Institute, MATEC (Midwest AIDS Training Center), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Medicine. Renslow Sherer, MD, Section of Infectious Diseases at the University of Chicago and Cathy Creticos, MD, Medical Director of MATEC, are the co-chairs of the program.

This program is designed for Primary Care Physicians, Physicians specializing in HIV disease, Infectious Disease Specialists, Advanced Practice Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Clinical Pharmacists, and Dentists. CME Accreditation and CE for Dentists, Nurses, and Pharmacists are provided through the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Medicine.

As in the past, we are pleased to be bringing an outstanding, nationally prominent faculty to Chicago for this conference.

This year’s program will take place on Thursday September 4, 2008 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, 160 E. Pearson Street at Water Tower Place, in Chicago.

5:00 pm to 6:00 pm: registration and dinner

6:00 pm to 9:30 pm: scientific session

Agenda:

  • The Global HIV Pandemic: Are We Making Progress?
    Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, Former Special Envoy to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
  • Resistance and Management of the Treatment Experienced Patient
    Eric Daar, MD, Chief of HIV medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, and a professor of medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles’ David Geffen School of Medicine
  • The Ten Most Important Contemporary Issues in HIV Management
    John G. Bartlett, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
  • Innovative Therapies and Strategies for the Treatment Naïve Patient
    Calvin Cohen, MD, Research Director, Community Research Initiative New England and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Boston, MA

To register and for more information, please click here: http://www.matep.org