Fundamentals of HIV Care for Primary Care Providers

Designed as an overview of the topics essential to the management of HIV, including strategies of antiretroviral therapy, drug interactions, co-morbid conditions, complications of HIV disease, and therapeutic interventions.

Track Leaders:
Beata Casanas, DO, FACP
Joanne J. Orrick, PharmD, AAHIVE
Todd S. Wills, MD

Experienced HIV clinicians will learn about the more complex aspects of HIV care as well as consider specialty topics to broaden their skills base. Practitioners will leave with new knowledge directly applicable to their practice.

Track Leaders:
Dushyantha Jayaweera, MD, MRCOG (UK), FACP
Iván Meléndez-Rivera, MD, FAAFP, AAHIVS

These sessions will enhance the clinical skills of nursing professionals working in the field of HIV. Nurses will gain the tools and knowledge to better achieve and document quality care.

Track Leaders:
Deborah Cestaro-Seifer, MS, RN
Mary Jo O'Hara, MSN, ARNP
David Waldron, BSN, RN

Track Leaders:
Robert Lawrence, MD
Ayesha Mirza, MD, FAAP

Project ECHO Lunch Session
Jeffrey A. Beal, MD, AAHIVS

Conference attendees are invited to purchase a box lunch and come to Lake Sheen meeting room for a roundtable discussion of the Project ECHO New Mexico program highlighted in the opening plenary. Participants are invited to share their thoughts as to how this network of learning could support the care they are currently providing in their own clinics. The feedback provided to the Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center will be considered in replicating this model in our region over the next one to two year implementation period. Using technology as a means to provide expert backup
educational experiences in our replicated model, our goal is to be more available to you in not only supporting your clinic, but the patients you serve. Additional time will be available for open discussion with colleagues and friends around the table.

Pharmacy and Medical Case Management

All sessions of the conference are approved for continuing education credits for all participants; you are free to move between tracks to secure a customized learning experience. For the convenience of pharmacists and medical case managers in attendance, the Conference Planning Committee has identified certain sessions that may be of particular interest to these groups. Please refer to the icons above for those session designations.