Press Luncheon At Columbia-Presbyterian Health Sciences Advisory Council Meeting To Spotlight Emerging Epidemics Of The 21st Century

Contact:  Carolyn Conway-Hoare(212) 305-3900

cc328@columbia.edu

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PRESS LUNCHEON AT COLUMBIA-PRESBYTERIAN HEALTH SCIENCES ADVISORY

COUNCIL MEETING TO SPOTLIGHT EMERGING EPIDEMICS

OF THE 21ST CENTURY

WHAT:      Please join us for a special

press luncheon exploring the emergence and spread of

today’s deadliest viruses. As part of the Columbia-Presbyterian Health

Sciences

Advisory Council’s annual spring meeting, a team of Columbia-Presbyterian

Medical

Center experts will discuss the development, spread, prevention and treatment

of a

number of global health threats, including the HIV, Ebola and West Nile

viruses.

Speakers will also focus on the potential dangers of these diseases for

both urban

communities and overseas travelers.

WHEN &   Thursday, April 26, 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

WHERE:    The Clark Conference Center, Milstein

Hospital Building

177 Fort Washington Avenue, New York City

AGENDA:  HIV: Where Is This Epidemic Going?

                   

Scott Hammer, M.D., Harold C. Neu Professor of Infectious Diseases,

                   

Department of Medicine, College of Physicians & Surgeons; and Professor,

                  

Mailman School of Public Health

                 

Basic Immunology of Emerging Viruses

Kathryn Calame, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry 

                 

and Molecular Biophysics, College of Physicians & Surgeons

                   

Challenges in Vaccine Development

                   

Jeremy Luban, M.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Microbiology and

                  

Medicine, College of Physicians & Surgeons

                   

Tropical Diseases: The Latest Epidemic

                   

Dickson Despommier, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology, College

of

                   

Physicians & Surgeons; and Professor, Mailman School of Public Health

                   

Infectious Agents in CNS Diseases

                   

W. Ian Lipkin, M.D., Director, Emerging Diseases Laboratory; Professor,

                   

Departments of Neurology, Anatomy & Neurobiology and Microbiology &

                  

Molecular Genetics, University of California at Irvine

                   

The Threat of Resistant Organisms

                   

Franklin Lowy, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, College

of

                   

Physicians & Surgeons

                   

Luncheon and Distinguished Service Award Presentation (RSVP REQUIRED)

                   

Constance and Stephen Lieber, co-founders, National Alliance for Research

on

                   

Schizophrenia and Depression

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