Public Health and Technology
Stephan Adelson

Providing an overview of popular technologies (i.e. the Internet, social networking sites, and mobile phones), the speaker will describe the ways in which people are using them and explore ways that the field of public health can embrace and use technology to better reach target populations for prevention, education, and communication efforts.
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Sex and Technology
Stephan Adelson

This session will discuss how the internet and mobile devices are being used as an avenue for seeking/obtaining sexual encounters, including the implications for STD/HIV rates, and how public health professionals can use these same technologies for STD/HIV prevention efforts.
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Legal Issues
Sherry Riley, BA

The session will provide participants with a basic overview of relevant legal issues associated with HIV disease. Participants will gain an understanding of the most common legal issues facing people living with HIV and AIDS. Participants will gain a basic understanding of legal interventions needed to protect and support people living with HIV. Finally, the session will highlight legislative changes in the areas of HIV testing, confidentiality, and access to treatment.
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The Dental Exam
Micaela Gibbs, DDS

Lack of optimal funding for dental services often prevents the availability of recommended dental care for our HIV-infected patients. This session highlights the importance of recognizing dental issues that may contribute to deleterious health events, such as cardiovascular disease and stroke. The audience will learn the basics of an office dental exam, as well as the education that should be given to our patients to decrease the potential dental pathology that will negatively impact their health.
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Domestic Violence (2 hour session)
Jennifer Pace, BA

Twenty-five percent of women report physical or sexual assault by a current or former partner during their lifetime. Victims of abuse have higher rates of unintended and rapid repeat pregnancy and significantly higher risk for sexually transmitted diseases – including HIV. This two-hour session satisfies the State of Florida domestic violence continuing education requirements.
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HIV Trivia Game
Lois Hall, ARNP, MSN
Jose Montero, MD

A”Jeopardy”-type game. This is a classic question-by-category format, competitive, interactive learning game featuring general HIV knowledge with pictures. Education for varied experience levels of nursing is provided covering dermatological manifestations, opportunistic infections, hepatitis, women’s health, HIV transmission, and TB. A team that has correctly answered a question has the option of taking virtual cash from other teams, giving it to an allied team, adding it to their own score or going “double-or-nothing.” The game utilizes an interactive and music/sound-effects-laden educational gaming environment.

Infection Control of HIV/AIDS and Other Bloodborne Pathogens
Elizabeth Piantadosi, RN, BSM

Exposures to blood and other body fluids occur across a wide variety of occupations. Health care workers, emergency response and public safety personnel, and other workers can be exposed to blood through needle sticks and other sharps injuries, mucous membrane, and skin exposures.
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Skin Disorders in the HIV Patient
Robert Norman, MD

Skin disorders occur in virtually all patients during the evolution of their HIV infection, often in a succession of conditions that mirror their gradual decline of immunity. Skin is often the first organ affected during the course of HIV disease. Participants will examine dermatological manifestations throughout the progression of the HIV infection. Examples of the skin diseases will be shown along with treatment considerations.
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TB and HIV
Beata Casanas, DO, FACP

Tuberculosis remains a leading cause of death among HIV-infected patients worldwide. Annual screening for latent TB infection remains an important recommended prevention strategy in HIV-infected individuals. Diagnosing and treating active tuberculosis in HIV-infected individuals can be challenging due to the often atypical presentation and drug-drug interactions among anti-TB and HIV therapies. This session will utilize cases to review screening and treatment of latent TB infection, clinical presentation of active TB disease and treatment of active TB.
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Psychological Issues and HIV
Carlos Santana, MD

Concomitant mental illness and substance use disorders are recognized as dual diagnosis in psychiatric services. When they occur among people living with HIV/AIDS it is referred to “triply diagnosed.” Patients with HIV infection, psychiatric and co-morbid substance abuse disorders have been linked with negative outcomes, including HIV-related morbidity and mortality, poor medication adherence, inadequate medical treatment, lower quality of life and risky sexual behaviors. They are more vulnerable than other medically ill populations because of the level of disease burden they experience and poor health outcomes. This session will focus on the prevalence of HIV in people with co-morbid psychiatric and substance abuse diagnoses, substance abuse assessment and referral, and treatment options for the triply diagnosed as well as interactions between ARVs and psychotropic agents/drugs of abuse.
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