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Friday, June 21, 2024

8:30 AM - 3:30 PM EST

Virtual (Zoom)

5 FREE CME/CNE/CPE Credits!

8:30 - 8:45

Conference Opening and Welcome

8:45 - 9:45

Keynote:

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, NY 1987-1993

Sarah Schulman

10:00 - 11:00

Panel Discussion: Unpacking the Current State of HIV

Kenyon Farrow

Kiara St. James

Jason Watler

Jawanza Williams

11:15 -12:15

The Latest Strategies to Prevent HIV and Promote Sexual Health

Rona Vail, MD

1:00 - 2:00

Innovations in HIV Treatment

Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH

2:15 - 3:15

Patient-Centered

HIV Counseling and Education

Cynthia Cabral, PhD

3:15 - 3:30

Closing Remarks

Jessica Silk, MPH

Antonio Urbina, MD

Sarah Schulman

Writer and AIDS Historian

Sarah Miriam Schulman is an American novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, gay activist, and AIDS historian. She holds an endowed chair in nonfiction at Northwestern University and is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities

Her 20th and most recent book is, “Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York 1987-1993.”

Kenyon Farrow

Writer/Editor, Activist/Strategist

Kenyon Farrow (he/him) is the Director of Communications where he leads AVAC’s communications team. He leads AVAC’s narrative change and strategic communications efforts to help influence key stakeholders, policymakers, and the media to expand access to HIV prevention, supporting R&D and programs, and advancing global health equity. In addition to his political work, Kenyon is a prolific essayist and author.

Kiara St. James

Community Organizer and Public Speaker

Kiara St. James, Founder and Co- Executive Director of the New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG) has been at the forefront of the TGNCNB advocacy movement for over 20 years. Her radical, progressive ideology has had a positive impact on the TGNCNB community across New York State and nationally. Kiara spearheaded the Gender Expression Non Discrimination Act (GENDA) in New York State, which prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and passed in 2019.

Jason Watler

Sexual Health Advocate

Jason Watler, a proud native of Northern Virginia, began his public health career in 2019 with the Ryland Roane Fellowship. He honed skills in grant writing, HIV/AIDS, and contact tracing while working with various organizations. Now focused on Black LGBTQ+ health, Jason leads a webinar series and debunks Mpox myths, becoming a vital figure in DC's HIV prevention efforts.

Jawanza Williams

Community Organizer and Campaigner

Jawanza James Williams is the Director of Organizing for Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY), a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness in order to create healthy and just communities.

Rona Vail, MD

Physician

Rona Vail, MD is an HIV specialist providing medical care to HIV-infected individuals for over 30 years. She has been at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center for the past 20 years, where in addition to patient care, she has provided education and training on HIV to community members, students, residents and medical professionals. She also serves on the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute Medical Care Criteria Guidelines Committee, as well as the Quality of Care Committee.

Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH

Physician and Researcher

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the Medical Director of the HIV Clinic ("Ward 86") at San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on HIV treatment and prevention optimization, HIV and women, adherence measurement in HIV and TB, adherence interventions, and the interplay between COVID-19 and HIV. She recently worked on COVID-19 mitigation and vaccination strategies, with a book on the COVID-19 pandemic called “Endemic: A Post Pandemic Playbook.”

Cynthia Cabral, PhD

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Cynthia Cabral, Ph.D. (they/them) is a clinical psychologist and the Director of Training and Education at New Perspective Psychological Services in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Cabral treats adolescents, adults, and couples presenting with depression, anxiety, bipolar spectrum disorders, trauma, and borderline personality disorder using a collaborative, client-centered approach that incorporates Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

(CBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI) frameworks, as well as discussions about the complex relationship between structural inequality for queer and BIPOC clients and their presenting clinical concerns. Previously, Dr. Cabral served as the Counseling Center Director at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn, as well as the Clinical Director at PRIDE (Promoting Resilience, Intersectionality, Diversity, and Equity) Research Consortium affiliated with Hunter

College. At PRIDE, they provided clinical supervisory support for short-term manualized interventions intended to reduce HIV transmission and risky sexual behavior with at-risk populations such as men who have sex with men and trans teens and emerging adults.

CME Accreditation/Certification:

The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry designates this live activity for a maximum of 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CNE Statement:

The University of Rochester Center for Nursing Professional Development is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

5.0 (2.0Rx) Nursing Contact Hours will be provided.

CPE Live:

Continuing Education Information

The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. “The 2024 NYS HIV Primary Care and Prevention Annual Conference - From Silence to Science: HIV Activism and Advancing Clinical Care”, has been assigned ACPE# 0044-9999-24-017-L02-P, and will award 5 contact hours or (0.5 ceus.) of live continuing pharmacy education credit. No partial credit will be awarded.

Antonio E. Urbina, MD

Professor and Physician

Medical Director,

New York State HIV Primary Care and Prevention Center of Excellence, Mount Sinai Health System; Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jessica Silk, MPH

Public Health Professional

Program Director,

New York State HIV Primary Care and Prevention Center of Excellence, Mount Sinai Health System

Phoebe Rosenheim, MPH

Public Health Professional

Program Coordinator,

New York State HIV Primary Care and Prevention Center of Excellence, Mount Sinai Health System

Mark Stratton, Jr., MPH

Public Health Professional

Program Coordinator,

New York State HIV Primary Care and Prevention Center of Excellence, Mount Sinai Health System