Chennai ART Symposium (CART 2010) announcement

[Guest guest]

YRG CARE is a non-profit medical and research institution in Chennai which provides medical care for more than 13,000 persons with HIV disease. Currently more than 6000 persons are receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy at YRGCARE.

YRG CARE conducts several clinical, epidemiological, psychosocial and biomedical research studies in collaboration with National Institutes of Health-US; Brown University, RI; University of California-San Diego, Tufts University, MA; s Hopkins University, MD; Stanford University, CA; University of California-San Francisco, CA; Emory University, GA; Rush University, IL; McFarlane Institute, Melbourne; Karolinska Institute,Sweden; Tuberculosis Research Centre/ICMR; National AIDS Research Institute/ICMR; Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai; Ragas Dental College, Chennai and University of Madras. YRG CARE is one of the clinical research site for Therapeutics Clinical Trials of ACTG/NIH and Prevention Trials of HPTN/NIH.

YRGCARE has an Infectious Diseases laboratory which is quality assured by CAP,UKNEQAS,NRL,VQA, WHO and NIH. The laboratory has facilities to do HIV diagnosis, assays for opportunistic infection diagnosis, a Mycobacterial lab with Bactec facilties, facilities for CD4 cell count, HIV RNA quantitation and HIV genotyping. YRGCARE laboratory also carries out basic science research and is the regional HIV genotyping laboratory for National Institutes of Health, USA

YRG CARE has contributed more than 150 original scientific manuscripts to HIV Medicine literature and has assisted to develop Treatment Guidelines for resource limited settings.

Objectives of the Symposium

To provide the latest clinical update on the management of HIV disease.

To update the practicing clinicians on the current concept of antiretroviral therapeutics, newer drugs, resistance and toxicities.

Highlights

This symposium is focused to deliver current updates on

Pathogenesis of HIV disease

Principles of Antiretroviral therapy

Updates on

- When to start?

- What to start?

- When to switch?

- What to switch?

Toxicities of antiretrovirals

Immune Reconstitution Syndrome

Drug Resistance

- Principles In Drug Resistance

- Genotyping

- Interpretation of results

Management of Treatment Experienced patients

New Drugs and Targets

HIV & TB

HBV, HCV coinfection

HIV & HPV

Antiretrovirals in Prevention

Antiretroviral Therapy in Pregnancy

Management of Pediatric HIV infection

HIV Medication Adherence

Psychosocial and behavioral changes

Cost Effectiveness of Antiretroviral Therapy

Laboratory Diagnosis of HIV infection

Who should attend?

Clinicians involved or interested in HIV care and Researchers.

Invited International Faculty

Dr. Constance A Benson - University of California, San Diego, USA

Dr. Wanke - Tufts University,Boston, USA

Dr. Davey - University of California, San Diego, USA

Dr. Katzenstein - Stanford University, USA

Dr. Celentano - s Hopkins University, USA ( to confirm)

Dr. Gallant - s Hopkins University, USA

Dr. Palefsky - University of California,San Francisco,USA

Dr. Mayer - Brown University, Providence,USA

Dr. Freedberg - Harvard University,Boston, USA

Dr. Ekstrand - University of California,San Francisco,USA

Dr. Gutmann - Brown University,Providence, USA

Dr. Rami Kantor - Brown University, Providence, USA

Dr. T Schooley - University of California, San Diego, USA

Dr. Letendre - University of California, San Diego, USA

Dr. Steffanie A. Strathdee - UCSD, San Diego, USA

Dr. Cu-Uvin - Brown University, Providence, USA

Dr. L. - UCSD, San Diego, USA

Dr. Vinod Diwan - Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Dr. Amita Gupta - s Hopkins University, USA

National Faculty

Dr. Atul Patel - IID,Ahmedabad.

Dr. Anita Shet - St.s Medical College,Bangalore

Dr. P.Balakrishnan - YRGCARE,VHS,Chennai

Dr. Kamini Walia - ICMR,New Delhi

Dr. N.Kumarasamy - YRGCARE,VHS,Chennai

Dr. Ramesh Paranjeppe - NARI,Pune

Dr. Raman Gangakedhkar - NARI,Pune

Dr. B.B.Rewari - NACO, New Delhi

Dr. Sanjay Mehendale - NARI,Pune

Dr. Sanjay Pujari - IID, Pune

Dr. K.Sathish - Wokardt Hospital, Bangalore

Dr. D.Saple - Mumbai

Dr. Srikanth Tripathy - NARI, Pune

Dr. Suniti - YRGCARE,VHS,Chennai

Dr. Sonali Kochhar - IAVI, New Delhi

Dr. Sunil - YRGCARE,Chennai

Registration

Rs.1000/- for regular delegates

Rs.500/- for Students (with identity cards)

The registration fee includes lunch and symposium materials.

For online registration

cartonline.yrgcare.in

Patron:

Dr. Suniti

Director, YRGCARE

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Contact

Organizing Chair

Dr. N Kumarasamy

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Organizing Secretary

AK Ganesh

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Logistics Coordinators:

Ms. Annie Zachariah

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Ms. Jabin Sharma

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Ms. Kavitha Balaji

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YRG Centre for AIDS Research and Education

Voluntary Health Services, Taramani,

Chennai 600113 India

Tel: 044 39106663, 39106810 Fax: 22542939

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