SAME DISEASES, DIFFERENT CONTINENTS
肝炎与艾滋病转化医学研讨会
The purpose of this educational event is to facilitate a live educational forum that will allow clinicians and community physicians from Southern California to meet and to openly dialogue with the conference lecturers from the United States and Beijing on the different approaches to disease management and treatment options that are sensitive to the Chinese culture. Furthermore, through this forum we aim to strengthen communication, improve competency, and enhance performance in patient care and medical practice.
We have invited a number of well-known domestic hepatitis and HIV research field of experts to give a presentation in this meeting.
AGENDA
8:30AM Registration
Morning Section Chair : Linqi Zhang, PhD
9:15 AM Opening Remarks
Gang Liu, PhD
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University
Vice Dean, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University
George Ma, MD
President, Chinese American Medical Association of Southern California
9:30AM Steatosis Induced by HCV Infection
Jun Cheng, MD, PhD, EMBA
Professor of Medicine
Vice President, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University
10:30AM Distribution and Clinical Correlates of Viral and Host Genotypes in Chinese Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Lai Wei, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Hepatology
Peking University People’s Hospital
11:30AM HBV and HCV co-infections in China’s National HIV Treatment Cohort
Fujie Zhang, MD, PhD
Professor and Director, Division of Treatment and Care
National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese CDC
12:30 PM Lunch
Afternoon Section Chair : Kwok Leung Chung , MD
1:30 PM Protective Immune Responses Against HCV in Vivo
Linqi Zhang, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Basic Medical Sciences
School of Medicine, Tsinghua University
2:30 PM Identification of Sodium Taurocholate Cotransporting Polypeptide as a Functional Receptor for Hepatitis B and D Virus
Wenhui Li, PhD
Assistant Investigator
National Institute of Biological Sciences
3:30 PM Host Immunity Influences the Disease Progression and Antiviral Efficacy in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B
Fusheng Wang, PhD
Professor and Director, Research Center for Biological Therapy
Beijing Institute of Infectious Diseases
4:30 PM Closing Remarks
Linqi Zhang, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Basic Medical Sciences
School of Medicine, Tsinghua University |
