Save the Date: May’s Public Health Grand Rounds

Save the Date

CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds Presents:

“Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Prevention of HIV Infection”

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., EST

Global Communications Center (Building 19)

Alexander D. Langmuir Auditorium

Roybal Campus

Presented By:

Walid Heneine, PhD

Surveillance, Antiretroviral Prophylaxis and Drug Resistance Team Lead 

Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC

“HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Preclinical Research in Animal Models”

Melanie Thompson, MD

Founder, Principal Investigator 

AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta

“Evolving Evidence from Clinical Trials of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis”

Dawn Smith, MD, MS, MPH

Biomedical Interventions Activity Lead, Prevention with Negatives Team

Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC

“Program and Policy Challenges for Delivery of PrEP”

Facilitated By:

John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds 

Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Manager, Public Health Grand Rounds

For CDC staff unable to attend the event: 

The session will be available on IPTV and Envision. To join by Envision, reserve a conference room and make the Envision request or use your local room scheduling process to schedule Envision.

For non-CDC staff or those outside of the CDC firewall:

A live external webcast will be available. Presentations are archived and posted 48 hours after each session. Due to security measures at CDC’s Roybal campus, non-CDC staff who wish to attend these sessions in person must have prior clearance and a U.S. state-issued photo ID (e.g., driver’s license, U.S. passport).

Names of non-CDC staff (both domestic and international) should be submitted to the Grand Rounds Team.Please note that all information for international visitors must be submitted at least 10 days in advance.

For CDC staff requiring reasonable accommodations:

It is the policy of CDC to provide reasonable accommodations (RA) for qualified individuals with disabilities to ensure their full inclusion in CDC-sponsored training events. Employees must submit RA requests at least two weeks before the training event. Please e-mail the request to grandrounds@cdc.gov.

For questions regarding this Grand Rounds topic: Feel free to e-mail your questions before or during the session. Follow us on Twitter #cdcgrandrounds