Aging en HIV 2016

HIV
On-site
English
Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau, Barcelona

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The objective of the course is to review the most current issues of HIV infection and aging from a multidisciplinary point of view.

During the two days of the workshop, international experts will present the hot topics in the management of HIV/AIDS in the elderly, so each of the program blocks will combine face-to-face presentations on the most topical issues in Aging, with short videos of world leading experts who will answer the most key questions on the subject of the block in question. At the end of the program, a member of the Scientific Committee will be in charge of summarizing and presenting the most important messages exposed during the program.

This edition will take place in Barcelona.

Official website: www.aginghiv.com

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Coordinators

Bonaventura Clotet

President of the Fight Infections Foundation and Director of the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute

Fundació Lluita contra les Infeccions, Badalona, Spain. Institut d'Investigació del Sida IrsiCaixa i Institut Català de la Salut, Badalona, Spain.

Bonaventura Clotet

President of the Fight Infections Foundation and Director of the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute

Dr. Clotet received his MD (1976) and his PhD (1981), with a thesis on autoimmune diseases, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). That same year, his internship as an Internal Medicine specialist at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona coincided with the first AIDS case reported in Spain. This case was the catalyst for a career dedicated to this serious disease, first as head of the HIV Unit of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in Badalona (1987-2015) and then as founder and president of the Fight against AIDS Foundation (1992), which is now named as Fight Infections Foundation.

Dr. Clotet soon saw the need to go a step beyond patient care to conduct research aimed at eradicating AIDS. In 1995, with the support of “la Caixa” and the Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia, he founded the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, which he still heads. In addition, Dr. Clotet is also the clinical director of Infectious Diseases at the Metropolitana Nord area of the Catalan Institute of Health, scientific advisor to two IrsiCaixa spin-offs: Aelix Therapeutics SL and AlbaJuna Therapeutics SL and director of the Chair of AIDS and Related Diseases at the Universitat de Vic (UVic).

He has published more than 1000 papers in high impact international journals and his contributions to research have been recognized with the Josep Trueta medal to Sanitary Merit and the ‘Premi Nacional de Recerca’, among other awards.
Pedro Cahn

Scientific Director of Fundación Huésped

Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires. Argentina.

Pedro Cahn

Scientific Director of Fundación Huésped

Pedro Cahn has been Scientific Director of Fundación Huésped since 1989 and former President of the International AIDS Society (IAS) for the period 2006-2008. Former Head and current Consultant of the Infectology Division of the Juan A. Fernández Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also Full Professor of the Department of Medicine, Infectology Orientation, of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Cahn has been involved in international HIV/AIDS conferences and working groups since 1989, including the 1st Conference on Pathogenesis and Treatment of IAS in Argentina and the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico, which he chaired. Likewise, on repeated occasions, he has acted as an advisor to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS. He is an Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires and received the honorable mention “Senator Domingo F. Sarmiento” by the Senate of the Nation (2014).