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Theme A Session 3: Co-morbidities in HIV

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Monday, September 24, 2018
4:00 PM - 5:35 PM
Tuscan (Ground Floor)

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Learning Objectives: 1) Understand the prevalence of different co-morbidities in the current cohort of cART-treated individuals. 2) Explore the mechanisms driving the pathogenesis of these diseases. 3) Discuss differences between the pathogenesis and clinical course of these diseases in HIV+ vs the general public.


Speaker

Associate Professor Anthony Jaworowski
Immunologist And Cell Biologist
RMIT university

The current status of non-AIDS cardiovascular comorbidities in HIV disease

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Biography

Associate Professor Anthony Jaworowski is an immunologist and macrophage biologist whose laboratory studies the role of monocytes in atherosclerosis in settings of healthy ageing and chronic HIV infection. He is also Associate Dean HDR in the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University.
A/PROF Lucette Cysique
Associate Professor
The University Of New South Wales

HIV and ageing of the brain

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

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Dr Lucette Cysique is the NeuroHIV research group leader at Neuroscience Research Australia and UNSW Medicine. She conducts cross-disciplinary research into the neurocognitive changes associated with HIV, aging, HIV and cardio-vascular diseases, as well as their underpinnings in brain structural and metabolic changes using MRI/MRS/DTI and PET.
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Dr Anna Hearps
Group Head
Burnet Institute

Mechanisms driving increased atherosclerosis risk in people living with HIV on cART

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

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Prof Andrew Carr
Director - HIV and Immunology Unit
St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney

Burden of Comorbidities

5:00 PM - 5:15 PM

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Professor Andrew Carr is a clinical immunologist and immunopathologist, and Head of the HIV, Immunology and Infectious Diseases Unit and of the Clinical Research Program, Centre for Applied Medical Research, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, mostly on antiretroviral complications and comorbidities.
Panel Discussion

Panellists: Stuart Turvillle, Lance Feeney, Anthony Jaworowski, Andrew Carr, Lucette Cysique, and Anna Hearps

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

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Chair

Lance Feeney
Consultant
Positive Life Nsw

Stuart Turville
Kirby Institute

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