Written by Jim Campbell
Edited by Paul Quin
Identifying Challenges
The New England Association on HIV over Fifty
Presents the 6th Annual
National Conference on HIV·Aids+Aging
✖ Friday 23 September 2011✖ John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston MA
✖ In partnership with John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and Lemuel Shattuck Hospital
✖ Co-sponsored by John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health + New England Aids Education and Training Center
✖ Additional support from the University of Massachusetts.
Opening remarks
✖ Governor Deval Patrick +✖ Representative Liz Malia have been invited to join
✖ NEAHOF Chair James Campbell
✖ Commissioner John Auerbach, Department of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
✖ Secretary Ann Hartstein, Executive Office of Elder Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
✖ Director Kevin Cranston, MDiv, Bureau of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Morning presentations:
✖ Medical Update & New Information on PrEP, Director of Research Calvin Cohen, MD, MSc, Community Research Initiative of New England✖ Care and Treatment of the Aging HIV Patient, Liz Kass, MD, Internal Medicine Physician, Fenway Health
✖ HIV & the Aging Patient: Psychiatric & Neurological Considerations, Professor Glenn Treisman, MD PhD, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
✖ Metabolic Disease Manifestations in the Aging HIV Patient, Director Steven Grinspoon, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital Program in Nutritional Metabolism
Afternoon presentations:
✖ Epidemiology of HIV: Consumer Study, Needs Assessment, & New Cases, Director Dawn Fukuda, ScM, Office of HIV/Aids, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Senior Consultant Jeremy Holman, PhD, JSI Research and Training Institute✖ Identifying the Challenges, panel discussion with Pharmacy Manager Christopher Casale, BA, BS, RPh, AAHIVE, BioScrip Pharmacy, Executive Director Jeanine M. Reilly, BSN, RN-C, LNHA, Broadway House for Continuing Care (NJ), John Mazzullo, MD (ret), Tufts Medical Center, and Shirley Royster, community educator, advocate and speaker
✖ Prescription Drug Abuse Among Elders, Chief Clifford Singer, MD, Division of Geriatric Mental Health + Neuropsychiatry, The Acadia Hospital + Eastern Maine Medical Center