April 7, 2008

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

A. CIRA SPONSORED AIDS SEMINARS

1. THIS WEEK! What's New, What's Coming: Clinical Trials and Antiretrovirals
   
   Date/Time: 04/10/08 New Haven at 12 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) the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) 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
2. THIS WEEK! 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
   
3. NEW! Director's International Seminar
   
   Date/Time: 04/24/08, 4:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
   Title: "China’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic"
   Speaker(s): Zunyou Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, China, CDC
   Location: LEPH Room 101, 60 College Street New Haven, CT
   Contact: Please RSVP to Nicole Whitcher. For further information send an email or call 203-764-4337.
4. NEW! YACS@CIRA Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 04/24/08, 12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M.
   Title: "TBA"
   Speaker(s): Luc de Montigny, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Urban Design & Planning, University of Washington
   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.
5. NEW! Research in Progress Seminar Series
   
   Date/Time: 04/25/08, 2:00 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
   Title: "Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C virus infections in attendees of sexual transmitted disease clinics in Saint Petersburg, Russia"
   Speaker(s): Maria Meringof, M.P.H., 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. THIS WEEK! 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
2. THIS WEEK! 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
3. Peer Review
   Date/Time: 04/14/08, 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).
4. NEW! Peer Review
   Date/Time: 04/24/08, 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon
   Location: CIRA, Ste. 200, Rm. 202, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT

C. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. NEW! THIS WEEK! "AIDS, Conflict, the United Nations and the Law"
   
   Date/Time: 04/10/08 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
   Speaker: Ambassador Stephen Lewis, co-director, AIDS-free World and former Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. Stephen Lewis began his career in Canadian politics with his election to the Ontario Legislative Assembly at the age of 25, and went on to become leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1970 to 1978. In 1984 he was appointed Canadian Ambassador to the UN, the first of his several senior United Nations roles spanning two decades. Among those, he chaired the Committee that drafted the first UN Programme on African Economic Recovery and the first International Conference on Climate Change, coordinated an international study on the "Consequences of Armed Conflict on Children" and was appointed by the Organization of African Unity to its "Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the Genocide in Rwanda". From 1995 to 1999, Stephen was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and in 2001, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan named him the first Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, a position he held through 2006.
   Sponsors: Co-sponsored by the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights and the Yale Law School Law and Health Initiative
   Location: Yale Law School, Room 127, 127 Wall Street New Haven, CT
   Contact: Megan A. Barnett, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, 203-432-4614
2. THIS WEEK! The Southwestern Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Conference 2008: "The Cultural Journey in Healthcare Delivery: Awareness into Action"
   
   Date/Time: 04/11/08 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
   The goal of this conference is to provide participants with awareness, knowledge and tools for taking action in the delivery of quality healthcare in a racially, ethnically and linguistically diverse environment. Application submitted for: Category 1 CME Credit, UCONN School of Medicine and CHES Credits via SCSU Dept.of Public Health.
   Keynote Speaker: This conference is featuring Sheila Thorne, President of the Multicultural Health Marketing Group who is nationally renowned in educating the medical business community about cultural issues in the delivery of healthcare.
   Sponsor: Southwestern AHEC, Inc.
   Location: Holiday Inn, 1071 Main St., Bridgeport, CT 06604
   Contact: Registration deadline is 4/4/08. Register Online at http://swctahec.eventbrite.com/. Cost is $35 per person and includes full breakfast and light break refreshments. If you have questions contact Bobbi Kulas at Southwestern AHEC, 203-372-5503, or go to their Web site http://www.swctahec.org/.
3. THIS WEEK! "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
   
   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.
4. 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
5. 4th Annual AIDS WALK NEW HAVEN 2008 - Rain or Shine!
   
   Date/Time: 04/20/08 1:00 PM - Registration; 1:00 PM - Key Speakers; 2:00 PM - Walk begins
   The funds raised from AIDS Walk New Haven are donated to ten member agencies of The New Haven Mayor's Task Force on AIDS. These organizations are: AIDS Interfaith Network, AIDS Project New Haven, Leeway INC, Hill Health Center, Hispanos Unidos, Liberty Community Services, New Haven Home Recovery, Fair Haven Community Health Center, Planned Parenthood, and Visiting Nurse Association..
   Location: The route begins and ends on the New Haven Green
   Contact: Register at the Web site: http://www.aidswalknewhaven.org/ or register the day of the Walk. For more information: http://www.aidswalknewhaven.org/. Email: aidswalknewhaven@gmail.com or Phone: (609) 937-1004
6. NEW! ***New Series*** "Empowering the Consumer: A Quarterly Educational Series for People Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS"
   
   Date/Time: 1st Session: 04/23/08, 12:00 Noon (Lunch Provided)
   Sponsor: Waterbury ID Clinic and the CT AIDS Education and Training Center
   Location: Waterbury Hospital ID Clinic, Suite L-06, 140 Grandview Ave., Waterbury, CT
   Contact: To RSVP or for more information please contact: caetc@yale.edu or 203-737-2312