Each year, a summary report is generated to document the Annual WRI Meeting in order to best provide direction for WRI's ongoing work to advance the research for HIV+ women. The report from the 2007 meeting updates many of the ongoing efforts of the WRI which have been developed since WRI's inception in 2003. However, more than half of this year’s meeting time was used to consider the next five years for women with HIV. The outcome of those deliberations was an imperative to continue the research mission of the WRI and to also begin tackling several other major issues including HIV stigma/ignorance, routine HIV testing and inadequate access to healthcare. The WRI contends that our research advocacy mission is closely connected to these new goals. Until we make progress in overcoming these barriers, we will not have an environment in which we can make enough significant research progress. Stigma and inadequate healthcare access are two of the major reasons why many women do not know their infection or risk status and why the low enrollment of women in clinical trials continues.
Attending the meeting were members of the WRI (including representatives from clinical care, HIV research, academia, community-based organizations, government, the pharmaceutical industry and HIV-positive women), guest speakers and invited experts. A list of the 2007 WRI Meeting members, speakers and participants can be found below.
For the full 2007 meeting report, please click below.
2007 WRI Meeting Participants
| Laura N. Armas-Kolostroubis, MD Clinical Director, TX/ OK AETC Staff Physician, HIV Women’s Specialty Center, Parkland Hospital System |
Judith D. Auerbach, PhD Deputy Executive Director for Science & Public Policy San Francisco AIDS Foundation |
| Richard Averitt Meeting Facilitator and Board Member The Well Project |
Julie Barroso, PhD, ANP, APRN, BC Associate Professor & Specialty Director, Adult Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care Program Duke University School of Nursing |
| Dawn Averitt Bridge Co-Founder and Chair The Well Project |
Carol Brosgart, MD Vice President Public Health & Policy Gilead Sciences |
| Gina Brown, MD Maternal-Fetal Specialist New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene |
Susan E. Cohn, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine University of Rochester Medical Center Infectious Diseases Division |
| Elizabeth Connick, MD Associate Professor of Medicine University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center |
Terri Creagh, PhD Director of Research Clinical and Epidemiologic Research |
| Karine Dubé, MPhil Research and Program Analyst amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research |
Judith Feinberg, MD Professor of Medicine University of Cincinnati |
| Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH Assistant Professor University of California, San Francisco |
Kristy Grimm, PharmD Associate Director, Virology Medical Strategy Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Debbie P. Hagins, MD AAHIVS Clinical Director Chatham County Health Dept. |
Sally L. Hodder, MD Executive Vice Chair, Director HIV Programs, Medicine University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey |
| Marcia McDonnell Holstad, DSN, RN-C, FNP Assistant Professor Emory University |
Rowena Johnston, PhD Vice President, Research amfAR – The Foundation for AIDS Research |
| Sharon Lee, MD Director, Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care Kansas City, KS |
Joseph Mrus, MD, MSc Medical Director Tibotec Therapeutics |
| Heidi Nass, JD Director, Education & Outreach UWHC HIV Clinic |
Cathy Olufs Education Director Center for Health Justice |
| Tonia Poteat, MMSc, PA-C, MPH Physician Assistant Grady Infectious Disease Program |
Martell Randolph Community Health Educator Los Angeles, CA |
| Laura Ray Research and Program Manager The Well Project |
Patricia Reichelderfer, PhD Microbiologist NIH/NICHD |
| Alex Rinehart, PhD Senior Science & Research Liaison Tibotec Therapeutics |
Maura Riordan Executive Director Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Disease (WORLD) |
| Deneen Robinson Owner Savant Consulting Group |
Yolanda Rodriguez-Escobar, LMSW Executive Director Mujeres Unides Contra el SIDA |
| Ellie Schoenbaum, MD Professor Epidemiology & Population Health, OB-GYN & Women's Health and Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Stephen P. Storfer, MD Senior Associate Director of Virology Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
| Kimberly Struble, PharmD Medical Team Leader Food and Drug Administration, Division of Antiviral Products |
Chris Turner, MSN, WHNP Feminist Women's Health Center/Private Practice |
| Fulvia Veronese, PhD Health Scientist Administrator Prevention Science Branch, DAIDS, NIAID, NIH, DHHS on detail from the NIH Office of AIDS Research |
Ron Wilder Meeting Facilitator and Board Member The Well Project |
| Loreen Willenberg Advocate, Affected Community Lake Elsinore, CA |
Carmen D. Zorilla, MD Professor, OB-GYN University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine |
