March 24, 2008

• A. CIRA SPONSORED AIDS SEMINARS
• B. CIRA MEETINGS/ANNOUNCEMENTS
• C. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

A. CIRA SPONSORED AIDS SEMINARS

1. CANCELED! YACS @ CIRA Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 03/27/08, 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M. (Brown bag lunch. Cookies and beverages provided.)
   Title: "Expanded Syringe Access-Design and Analyses of a Community Level Intervention to Reduce Bloodborne Disease Transmission"
   Speaker(s): Crystal Fuller, Ph.D., Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and The New York Academy of Medicine
   Sponsor(s): Co-sponsored by CIRA, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Yale School of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases.
   Location: LEPH Room 608, 60 College St, New Haven, CT
   Contact: Please RSVP to Betsy Williams (betsy.williams@yale.edu). For more information or directions, please call 764-4333, or visit the YACS @ CIRA Web site: http://cira.med.yale.edu/events/yacs.html.
2. THIS WEEK! Research in Progress Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 03/28/08, 2:00 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
   Title: "Non-AIDS-defining illnesses and causes of death among TB/HIV patients in Saint-Petersburg, Russia"
   Speaker(s): Zinaida Zagdyn, M.D., Ph.D., International Trainee
   Sponsor(s): Office of International Training (OIT), CIRA
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   
3. Research in Progress Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 04/04/08, 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M.
   Title: "Risk Behavior Among Students of St. Petersburg State University"
   Speaker(s): Natalia Antonova, Psy.S., International Trainee
   Sponsor(s): Office of International Training (OIT), CIRA
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   
4. NEW! Research in Progress Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 04/11/08, 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.
   Title: "Whole Genome Association Study to Search for HIV-Cancer Related Genes"
   Speaker(s): Dmitry Polev, M.S., International Trainee
   Sponsor(s): Office of International Training (OIT), CIRA
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   

B. CIRA MEETINGS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Peer Review
   Date/Time: 04/01/08, 2:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   CIRA peer review provides an opportunity to enhance the quality of grant proposals and manuscripts written by CIRA scientists by sharing them with a multidisciplinary group of colleagues. The spirit of CIRA peer review is one of collegiality and respect; peer review is constructive rather than evaluative. Investigators use the feedback they receive as they see fit. We encourage you to have your proposal reviewed early in its development. If you would like to submit a grant proposal or manuscript for peer review, please contact Jon Atherton (jon.atherton@yale.edu; 764-4351).
2. Executive Committee Meeting
   Date/Time: 04/03/08, 10:30 A.M. - 11:30 A.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
3. NEW! Community Research (CR) Core Meeting
   Date/Time: 04/09/08, 9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
4. Peer Review
   Date/Time: 04/09/08, 2:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
5. NEW! Interdisciplinary Research Methods (IRM) Core Meeting
   Date/Time: 04/11/08, 1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT
   

C. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. NEW! "Modeling Dyadic Data with Hierarchical Linear Modeling"
   
   Date/Time: 04/13/08 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
   Speaker: Aline Sayer, EdD, Associate Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Methodology Program at the Center for Research on Families at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Sayer's research interests and expertise are in the areas of growth curve modeling, dyadic modeling, and the longitudinal development of children at risk.
   Sponsor: The Ethel Donaghue Center for Translating Research into Practice and Policy, Seminar Series in Translational Research 2007-2008
   Location: Dental Dean's Conference Room (AG 012), University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030-6229
   Contact: RSVP to Kathy Donnald, (860) 679-3076, donnald@uchc.edu
   
   Target Audience: Faculty and staff from diverse disciplines, including physicians, nurses, psychologists, social scientists, as well as variety of researchers with an interest in translational research to benefit practice and inform health policy. The level of training and experience will range from junior to senior, depending on the workshop topic.
   
   The hierarchical linear model (HLM) provides a conceptual framework and a flexible set of analytic tools to study a variety of social, political, and developmental processes. One major application concerns the analysis of dyads, where individual responses are clustered within couples, sibships, caregiving dyads or other matched pairs. This workshop will consider the formulation of statistical models for this application using the HLM6 software package. In the 4-hour session we will cover the HLM modeling approach for analyzing dyadic data. These include cross-sectional models for dyadic consensus and discrepancy and the actor-partner interdependence model. Participants will be introduced to the HLM computer program and encouraged to analyze exemplar datasets, with a focus on interpretation of output.
2. NEW! What's New, What's Coming: Clinical Trials and Antiretrovirals
   
   Date/Time: 04/10/08 New Haven at Noon, Waterbury at 3:00 PM and Hartford at 6:00 PM
   Speaker: Ricky K. Hsu, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor, Department of HIV and Internal Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital -- New York
   Sponsor: CT AIDS Education & Training Center (CAETC) and Pfizer
   Locations: New Haven – Greek Olive, 402 Sargent Drive New Haven, CT; Waterbury – Waterbury ID Clinic, L-06 Conference Room, 140 Grandview Ave Waterbury, CT; Hartford – J's Restaurant, 297 Washington Street Hartford, CT
   Contact: RSVP to caetc@yale.edu or 203-737-2312
3. NEW! Bioethics Study Group: "Addiction, Mental Health and HIV/AIDS"
   
   Date/Time: 04/16/08 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
   Topic: Ethical and Human Rights Imperative to Ensure Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence in Prisons and Pre-Trial Detention
   Speakers: R. Douglas Bruce, M.D., Yale AIDS Program, Yale School of Medicine, and Kaveh Khoshnood, Ph.D., Yale School of Public Health
   Locations: 87 Trumbull Street Conf. Room, 87 Trumbull St New Haven, CT
   Contact: For further information, reservations or reading materials, contact ashley.simmons@yale.edu