Workshop 3 - HIV cure 101. Progress and challenges (Group 3)
Tracks
Track 3
Saturday, May 25, 2019 |
10:25 AM - 11:10 AM |
Great Room 3 |
Speaker
Dr Melanie Bissessor
Staff Specialist
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
Workshop 3: HIV cure 101. Progress and challenges
10:30 AM - 11:10 AMBiography
Melanie Bissessor is a sexual Health physician at MSHC and GP s100 prescriber at centre Clinic in St Kilda.
She is involved in STI prevention and treatment including HIV prevention strategies.
Associate Professor James McMahon
Head of Clinical Research Unit
Alfred Health
Workshop 3: HIV cure 101. Progress and challenges
10:30 AM - 11:10 AMBiography
Dr McMahon is an Infectious Diseases physician and Head of Clinical Research at the Alfred Hospital, an Infectious Diseases physician at Monash Medical Centre and Chairs the ASHM ARV Guidelines Committee. His main research interests are in the field of HIV Cure including clinical trials to image tissue sites of persistent HIV and clinical trials of interventions to target the HIV reservoir.