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Joint Plenary 1

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Wednesday, November 8, 2017
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Royal Theatre

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Professor Andrew Grulich
Professor and Program Head HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program
Kirby Institute

Maximising the population-level impact of PrEP

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

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Professor Andrew Grulich is a medical epidemiologist and Public Health Physician. He is head of the HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program at the Kirby Institute. He is a past president of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, a past member of the International AIDS Society Governing Council, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. His research group studies the transmission and prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections in homosexual men, and the links between infection, immune function and cancer in people with HIV.
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Professor Monica Lahra
Director
World Health Organisation CC for STD, Sydney

Antimicrobial Resistance

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

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Professor Monica Lahra is the Medical Director, Division of Bacteriology, and Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for STD, Sydney, based in the Department of Microbiology, New South Wales Health Pathology at The Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney.
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Professor Jeffrey Klausner
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Self-testing for HIV Infection and other STDs

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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Dr. Klausner is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Professor of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles.
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Professor Jeffrey Klausner
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Advances in Self-Testing for HIV Infection and other STDs

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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Dr. Jeffrey D. Klausner is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Klausner is a leading researcher in infectious diseases, and frequently serves as an advisor to the CDC, NIH, and WHO.
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Professor Graham Taylor
Professor
Imperial College London

HTLV-1: a neglected infection of global significance

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

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Qualified MB ChB Birmingham 1981. Trained in Internal Medicine in the West Midlands and South Wales. Appointed Chief Medical Officer (Medicine) Solomon Islands 1988 where first interested in HTLVs. Joined Imperial College and initiated HTLV-1 clinic 1992. Runs the National HTLV clinical service, diagnostic lab and retroviruses translational research group.
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