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Symposium 20 - Growing older with HIV - Basic Science

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Wednesday, September 18, 2019
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Meeting Room 2

Speaker

Associate Professor Anthony Jaworowski
Immunologist And Cell Biologist
RMIT university

The role of monocytes in promoting atherosclerosis in virologically suppressed people living with HIV (PLWH)

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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Speaker Presentation

Biography

Associate Professor Anthony Jaworowski is an immunologist and cell biologist at RMIT university who has been engaged in HIV research for >20 years. His current research focusses on how inflammation in virologically-suppressed PLWH increases risk of age-related, comorbidities and on how to eliminate macrophage reservoirs of HIV.
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Professor Bruce Brew
Senior Staff Specialist
St Vincents Hospital Sydney

What do we know about the impact of age-related comorbidities on cognitive & brain ageing in chronic HIV infection?

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Audio Recording

Biography

Bruce Brew is Professor of Medicine (Neurology) University of New South Wales and University of Notre Dame, Director of the Peter Duncan Neurosciences Unit St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research and neurologist at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney (MBBS Hons) and holds two higher degree doctorates – Doctorate of Medical Sciences from the University of Sydney and a Doctorate of Science from the University of New South Wales. He has a long standing interest in HIV neuropathogenesis particularly in relation to cognitive impairment at both clinical and basic science levels, and HIV related neurological complications in general.
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A/Prof Patricia Price
Principal Research Fellow
Curtin university

ACCELERATED ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN INDONESIAN HIV PATIENTS RESPONDING TO ART IS LINKED TO PERIODONTITIS

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Audio Recording

Biography

Patricia Price has established and run a series of productive collaborative studies addressing the pathogenesis of HIV through University of Indonesia.

Co-chair

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Bruce Brew
Senior Staff Specialist
St Vincents Hospital Sydney

Jennifer Hoy
Director of HIV medicine
Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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