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Version 1.0 | Update10Jul11
Written by Jim Campbell
Edited by Paul Quin
Prevention, Care + Management ::
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

Keynote address TBA

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