Organized by:
American STD Association


Chairs:
Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH & Bradley Stoner, MD, PhD


Agenda:

- Presentation of ASTDA Young Investigator Award to Rebecca Brotman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine

- Presentation of ASTDA Achievement Award to Connie Celum, MD, MPH, Professor of Global Health and Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington

- Presentation of Thomas Parran Award to Thomas Quinn, MD, MSc, Senior Investigator and Head of the Section on International HIV/STD Research and Associate Director for International Research at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Professor of Medicine, Pathology, International Health, Epidemiology and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins University

- Parran Award Lecture: Thomas Quinn, MD, MSc
The 30-Year War Against HIV/AIDS: Have We Reached the Tipping Point?

The ISSTDR 2011 Scientific Program Committee is proud to announce the addition of a special plenary session to its program. Given recent research results and their impact on the field of HIV treatment for prevention, we will have the privilege of having Prof. Myron S. Cohen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to present a plenary lecture entitled  "Antiretroviral therapy for the prevention of HIV: where are we now and where are we going?". This session is scheduled from 4:15 to 5:00 pm on Monday July 11.

In the 11th International Symposium on Haemophilus ducreyi Pathogenesis and Chancroid, an international panel of researchers will present current studies on H. ducreyi pathogenesis, including mechanisms for survival in the human host, identification and structure-function analyses of virulence factors, and gene regulation; the symposium will conclude with talks on the comparative genomics and evolution of the organism and the possibility of eradicating chancroid.

This symposium will be held as a satellite to the ISSTDR 2011 Conference on Sunday July 10. Registration and information on the preliminary program is available by clicking here.

We are glad to announce that the next ISSTDR - IUSTI joint conference will be held in Vienna, Austria from July 14 to 17, 2013.