Researchers and their designated HIV planner or policymaker are invited to attend the upcoming Project SHARE (Sharing HIV/AIDS Research Efforts) seminar, “HIV Does Not Cause AIDS: Why We Should Care about AIDS Denialism.” Project SHARE represents a collaborative effort between the NIDA-funded University of Miami Developmental Center for AIDS Research (D-CFAR), the Miami-Dade County Health Department, and the Broward County Health Department. Through a series of seminars, the initiative aims to strengthen the linkages between HIV/AIDS researchers and practitioners within the South Florida community.

The upcoming Project SHARE seminar will be facilitated by Seth Kalichman, who recently published the book Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy, the royalties from which are donated to buy HIV medications in Africa. Kalichman is a professor of social psychology at the University of Connecticut and the editor in chief of the journal AIDS and Behavior. More information about Kalichman and AIDS denialism can be found on his blog at http://denyingaids.blogspot.com/.

The seminar will be held on Friday, August 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Gordon Auditorium on the first floor of the Clinical Research Building, 1120 NW 14th Street, Miami. The event is free of charge, and lunch will be served. Seating is strictly limited to 100. Seats will be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. Please RSVP by contacting Victoria Elf at 305-243-3210 or [email protected]. Also, please leave your contact information so your reservation may be confirmed.

The University of Miami Developmental Center for AIDS Research (D-CFAR) will host James S. Kahn, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), on Monday, July 26 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Kahn will present “The Importance of Mentoring.”

Kahn is chair of the UCSF Research Administration Board and serves as director of the UCSF-Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology Center for AIDS Research Mentorship Program. He also directed the development of HERO (Healthcare Evaluation Record Organizer), a web-based electronic medical record system. Used at San Francisco General Hospital’s HIV/AIDS ward, HERO also serves as a database for monitoring trends in HIV disease and progression.

Nicolas Sluis-Cremer, director of the Basic Research Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine and associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, will present “Rational Design of Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors for Drug Resistant HIV-1” on Friday, July 2 at 12 p.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118.

The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Division of Infectious Disease ID/HIV and the Developmental Center for AIDS Research (D-CFAR) will present its Grand Rounds Seminar Series on Tuesday, June 1 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Ewald Horwath, professor, and Felicia Gould, assistant professor, both of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Miller School, will present “Post Traumatic Stress in HIV+ Patients: A Neuropsychiatric Perspective.”

The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Division of Infectious Disease ID/HIV and the Developmental Center for AIDS Research (D-CFAR) will host grand rounds on Tuesday, May 18 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Susanne Doblecki-Lewis, assistant professor of clinical medicine in the Department of Medicine, will present “HIV and Latent Tuberculosis Infection.”