A Message From Your Friends At The Southeast AETC: Our hearts go out to those in our community who were affected by the hurricanes. If you have patients that are having trouble accessing HIV services during this time, we urge you to utilize HRSA’s Find a Ryan White Provider tool to help navigate them to services nearby.

11th Annual Kentucky AETC Intensive HIV/HCV Conference

Please join us for the 11th Annual Kentucky AIDS Education and Training Center (KY AETC) HIV/HCV Intensive Conference to be held April 24-25, 2020, at the Campbell House in Lexington, Kentucky.

This conference will serve as an update for health care providers on the best practices in HCV and HIV/AIDS care.

The registration fee to attend the entire conference is $25. Click on the button below to view all of the registration fee options and instructions. If you need to cancel your registration, please email Tiffany Howard.

Agenda 

Thursday, April 23rd

2:00 – 6:00pm
MAT Waiver Training
Laura Fanucchi, MD & Hermione Hurley, MBCHB

Friday, April 24th

9:00 – 9:30am
Breakfast and Conference Registration

9:30 – 9:40am
Opening Remarks

9:40 – 10:20am
Cultural Sensitivity As It Relates to Caring for Vulnerable Populations
Warren O’Meara-Dates

10:20 – 11:00am
Harm Reduction
Christopher Albert

11:00 – 11:40am
Strategies for Assuming Outpatient ID/Opioid Use Disorder Care
Hermione Hurley, MBCHB

11:40 – 12:30pm
Lunch

12:30 – 1:10pm
Harm Reduction and Partnering with the Community, Lessons from Maine
Kinna Thakarar, DO, MPH

1:10 – 1:50pm
Treating HCV and HIV Concurrently With Opioid Addiction
Sandra Springer, MD

1:50 – 2:30pm
HCV Treatment in PWID
Arthur Kim, MD

2:30 – 3:10pm
HCV Treatment Project in Connecticut
Merceditas Villanueva, MD

3:10 – 3:20pm
Break

3:20 – 4:00pm
HCV Treatment – Incarcerated Population
TBD

4:00 – 4:50pm
HCV Treatment and Follow-Up
Andrew Aronsohn, MD

4:50 – 5:30pm
Hepatitis B Treatment and Follow-up
Kristen Marks, MD

5:30 – 5:45pm
Evaluation & Adjournment

5:45pm
Dinner

Saturday, April 25th

7:30 – 8:00am
Breakfast and Registration

8:00 – 8:10am
Opening Remarks

8:10 – 8:50am
Stigma Related to HIV Testing
Warren O’Meara-Dates

8:50 – 9:30am
HIV Outbreak Among PWIDs in Northeast MA
TBD

9:30 – 10:10am
Ending the Epidemic in Atlanta
TBD

10:10 – 10:20am
Break

10:20 – 11:00am
PrEP Implemented NYC-Wide
Demetre Daskalakis, MD

11:00 – 11:40am
New and/or Investigational Approaches to Antiretroviral Therapy
Rajesh Gandhi, MD

11:40 – 12:20pm
Challenges Integrating Transgender Healthcare for Adolescents
TBD

12:20 – 1:10pm
Lunch

1:10 – 1:50pm
Anal PAP/HPV
Joel Palefsky, MD

1:50 – 2:30pm
Providing Care for PWH in the Absence of Ryan White Funding
TBD

2:30 – 3:10pm
Challenging STI Cases
Khalil Gorges Ghanem, MD

3:10 – 3:20pm
Evaluation & Adjournment