SEATEC conferences and workshops

• Orientation to Adult HIV Care
  Two-day course that presents an overview of HIV clinical care. The topics include HIV testing and counseling, prevention support for HIV-positive patients, HIV pathogenesis, transmission and primary infection, antiretroviral therapy, opportunistic infections, women and HIV, hepatitis, mental health and substance abuse, and workplace safety.
  Who should attend: Physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants, case managers, patient educators, social workers, counselors, nutritionists, pharmacists and other who provide or plan to provide care to HIV-infected adults.
  Continuing Education: Southeast AIDS Training and Education Center is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Georgia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
  Contact hours will be awarded based on attendance at the entire training program and submission of a completed evaluation form.
  Date: Thursday-Friday, October 29-30, 2009
  Location: Evergreen Marriott Conference Center, Stone Mountain Park, Atlanta, GA
  Registration: For brochure and registration information, please click here.
  For more information: Contact Elizabeth Fullerton at 404-727-1758 or efulle2@emory.edu.
  
  
• HIV and Violence Against Women: A National Conference
  One-day conference to enhance understanding of how women's health and wellbeing are influenced by two highly-stigmatized and gendered national issues, HIV and violence against women. Intended for health care and service providers, researchers, advocates, community educators, and policy makers.
  Sponsors: DHHS Office on Women's Health; CDC Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; Southeast AIDS Training and Education Center; Ensync Diversified Management Services, Inc.; Messages of Empowerment Productions, LLC, Social Solutions International, Inc.; Susan B. Spencer, Inc.; and The Wright Group.
  Special Note: For persons attending the 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference August 23-26 in Atlanta, this one-day conference is one day before and about five blocks away from the Prevention Conference venue.
  Dates: Saturday, August 22, 2009
  Location: Loudermilk Conference Center, Atlanta, Georgia
  Registration: There is no registration fee but registration is required. For more information contact Renata Dennis RN, MPH, 404-727-2011, or rdennis@sph.emory.edu. For a flyer click here and for a registration form click here.
  
  
• Medical Management of HIV in the Rural Southeast
  Two-day course that presents an overview of advanced HIV clinical care.
  Please note that the Medical Management of HIV in the Rural Southeast has been postponed from its previously set date and location of May 2010 at Amelia Island Plantation. Please watch this space for information on our next time and venue.
  For more information: Contact Elizabeth Fullerton at 404-727-1758 or efulle2@emory.edu.