Joseph Eron, MD, division chief of infectious diseases, was part of an expert panel focused on specific information and educational needs of health care professionals involved in diagnosis and treatment of HIV.聽 (Republished from the 黑料网 Health Care and 黑料网 Newsroom)
Contagion, the nation鈥檚 leading digital and print resource dedicated to providing up-to-date, disease-specific information to health care practitioners and specialists in the field of infectious diseases, presented its most recent 鈥淧eer Exchange鈥� panel discussion, 鈥淗IV Screening, Prevention, and Treatment Advances.鈥澛犅爓elcomed several experts in the treatment and management of HIV who provide peer-to-peer dialogue, insights, opinions, and perspectives on current trends and available treatments for patients with HIV.
鈥淢ore than 1 million people in the United States are living with HIV today,鈥� said Michael J. Hennessy Jr., president of MJH Associates Inc., parent company of聽Contagion. 鈥淥ur panel of experts comes together in this cutting-edge discussion to explain the importance of treating HIV at an early stage, review several HIV tests available, briefly discuss the importance of rapid initiation of therapy after diagnosis, and provide recommendations for laboratory monitoring in patients started on an antiretroviral therapy.鈥�
罢丑颈蝉听颁辞苍迟补驳颈辞苍听鈥淧eer Exchange鈥� panel features five distinguished experts: Joseph J. Eron Jr., MD, professor of medicine and division chief of infectious diseases at the 黑料网, as moderator; Eric S. Daar, MD, of the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; Ian D. Frank, MD, of the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania; W. David Hardy, MD, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Paul E. Sax, MD, of Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital.
The first segment of this 鈥淧eer Exchange鈥� series delves into a discussion on screening and prevention of HIV. In the second segment, the experts provide a brief overview of the current HIV treatment landscape. The third segment focuses on additional considerations for therapy, such as the importance of adherence to treatment and care. In the final segment, our experts discuss upcoming treatment options that are exciting for the HIV community.
Eron is director of the clinical core at the 黑料网 Center for AIDS Research and member of the 黑料网 Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. He is聽also the Vice Chair of the聽聽(ACTG), the oldest and largest of the five HIV research networks funded by the NIH.
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