WRI 2007 - Six Themes for the Future

Submitted on Dec 2, 2007

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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

 

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