Conference Speakers 2011
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Dr. Tilles is the PI responsible for the oversight and operation for the UC Irvine site of the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center. Dr. Tilles is Professor Emeritus in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, Irvine, and Chair for the California Chapter American College of Physicians. He is a professor of medicine, microbiology and molecular genetics.
Dr. Karen Mark is currently Interim Chief of the Office of AIDS and Chief of the Surveillance, Research, and Evaluation Branch of the Office of AIDS in the California Department of Public Health. Dr. Mark completed her medical training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), her internal medicine residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and her infectious diseases fellowship and Master of Public Health in epidemiology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She spent two years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer assigned to the Division of STD and Hepatitis Prevention in San Diego County and several years as a faculty member at the University of Washington, where she studied genital herpes and was the Clinic Director of the Seattle HIV Vaccine Trials Unit. Wanting to refocus her work on HIV/AIDS and public health, Dr. Mark joined the Office of AIDS in January 2010 as Chief of the Surveillance, Research, and Evaluation Branch, where her work focused on improving HIV surveillance in California and using HIV surveillance data and Care and Prevention program evaluation data to improve HIV care, treatment, and prevention in California. Throughout her career Dr. Mark has continued to see patients with HIV/AIDS, most recently at the CARES clinic in Sacramento.
Calvin J. Cohen, M.D., M.Sc. is the Research Director of Community Research Initiative of New England and Clinical Research Director for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates where he also maintains an Internal Medicine practice focussed on HIV related issues. He is a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School.
- Dr. Cohen earned his B.A. from Cornell University, his M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and his M.Sc. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his medicine residency at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital, and a general medical fellowship at Harvard Medical School.
- Dr. Cohen's research focuses on HIV antiviral trials. He is a Vice Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of the INSIGHT network, an NIH-supported International network of clinician-researchers.
- Dr. Cohen is published in Annals of Internal Medicine and the New England Journal of Medicine. He received the Outstanding Physician's Award by Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, the Ebert Teaching award by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and the Community Recognition Award from the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts.
Thomas J. Coates, PhD, is the Director of the UCLA Program in Global Health, and is the Michael and Sue Steinberg Endowed Professor of Global AIDS Research within the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCLA. He co-founded the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at UCSF in 1986 and directed it from 1991 to 2003. He was the founding Executive Director of the UCSF AIDS Research Institute, leading it from 1996 to 2003. His areas of emphasis and expertise are HIV prevention, the relationship of prevention and treatment for HIV, and HIV policies. His domestic work has focused on a variety of populations, and he is currently finishing a nationwide clinical trial of an experimental HIV preventive intervention focused on high-risk men. He is also finishing domestic trials of post-exposure prophylaxis. With funding from USAID and WHO, he led a randomized controlled trial to determine the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of HIV voluntary counseling and testing for individuals and couples in Kenya, Tanzania, and Trinidad. He is now directing a 48-community randomized clinical trial in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Thailand to determine the impact of strategies for destigmatizing HIV on HIV incidence community-wide. He is also leading a prevention clinical trial in South America as part of a 5-country effort, and has a trial in China to determine the impact of prevention in the context of care. He is co-principal investigator of the NIAID-funded HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), and is conducting policy research domestically and internationally. He was cited in Science in 2002 as the 4th-highest-funded scientist in the clinical, social, and behavioral sciences and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2000. The UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine launched its Global Health Education Program (GHEP) in the fall of 2010. Led by Dr. Coates, the goals of this program include creating a comprehensive global health undergraduate and graduate educational program, fostering a vibrant research portfolio, and building a national and international reputation for excellence in global health.
Tim Vincent, MS, MFT, is a Training Coordinator at the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center in Oakland. He is a licensed mental health clinician and has been working in the field of HIV/AIDS for nearly 20 years. He oversees the prevention with positives training and technical assistance program and a new training program for HIV service providers on the topic of responding to the needs of gay-identified and other men who have sex with men. He has developed curriculum on improving providers' skills in working with HIV-positive clients in prevention for the Prevention Training Center, called Positive Strengths. He also has developed training on the topic or recognizing and responding to stigma. Prior to his training work, he worked in community based organizations in mental health and social work with clients living with HIV. He presents regularly at HIV prevention and care conferences throughout the country. Tim is currently working on a training and technical assistance project conducting Strengthening Support Group and MSM Sensitizationn trainings in South Africa.
Dr. Heidi Bauer is the Chief of the Program Development and Evaluation Section for the California Department of Public Health STD Control Program and faculty for the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center. She has faculty appointments in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley. She received her Master of Public Health from UC Berkeley, and after completing a Master of Science at UC Berkeley, she went on to complete her medical training at UCSF School of Medicine. She completed a residency in Preventive Medicine at UCSF and is board-certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. In her current position, she develops curricula and conducts clinical training, provides care for STD patients, and designs public health research and programs to reduce the burden of STDs in California.
President of MichRx Pharmacist Consulting Services. HIV Pharmacist in OC for 20 years, serving the HIV community as a pharmacist and advocate. Work with HIV Pharmacies to provide the best care for HIV clients. Provide Coaching, training & consulting and educational & speaking programs for clients, pharmacists, ASO’s and other Healthcare providers. Provide educational services and information for clients through MichRx.com
Sexual health psychotherapist, trainer and author Douglas Braun-Harvey bridges sexual and mental health and facilitates individual, group and organizational change. Through his psychotherapy, training, writing and consultation, HIV infected women and men discover, develop, implement and maintain their unique vision for sexual health. Douglas trains principles of sexual health within a wide range of health and human services including drug and alcohol treatment, psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, HIV prevention and treatment, sexual abuse and maltreatment, family court services and out of control sexual behavior.
Doug Braun-Harvey led ten state wide regional training days for the California State Office of AIDS Early Intervention Programs in 2009 as well as a two-part sexual health training to Orange County HIV/AIDS Partner Notification Services in 2011. He is author of “Sexual Health in Recovery: Professional Counselor’s Manual (2011) and “Sexual Health in Drug and Alcohol Treatment: Group Facilitator’s Manual” (2009). In his San Diego private practice Mr. Braun-Harvey provides outpatient assessment, individual and group psychotherapy for men with consensual out of control sexual behavior.
Deb Levine, MA is Executive Director and Founder of ISIS. She is the visionary leader of the organization, whose mission is to use digital and mobile media to engage youth and young adults around sexual and reproductive health. ISIS' award-winning tech projects include SexINFO text messaging, inSPOT ecards, and the annual Sex::Tech conference in San Francisco. Deb's work has been cited in former President Clinton's Advisory Council Report on Education and the Internet, she was recently on the winning team for a White House mobile app challenge, and in 2009, she was a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow. She holds a Bachelor's of Social Work from Cornell University and a Masters of Arts in Experiential Education and Women's Studies from NYU. Deb has been extensively quoted in print in the New York Times, CNN.com, and The Wall Street Journal. Deb has been working in the field of sexual health since 1993, when she discovered the power of the Internet to discuss sensitive topics while creating the immensely popular Go Ask Alice at Columbia University, the first online health Q&A.
Tarek I. Hassanein, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine in San Diego, California (UCSD). He also serves as the Director of Southern California GI & Liver Centers and is the Director of the Clinical Trials Center. Dr. Hassanein is the Co-Director of Liver Transplantation at Scripps Clinic. Dr. Hassanein is board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology. Dr. Hassanein received his undergraduate degree and his medical degree at Alexandria University in Alexandria, Egypt. He completed his internship and Internal Medicine residency at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He performed his Research and Clinical GI/Hepatology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Dr. Hassanein is a Fellow of the ACP and ACG, and AGA.
- Professor of Medicine
- School of Medicine, UCSD
- Director, Southern California GI & Liver Centers
- Director, Clinical Trials Center
- Coronado, CA USA