Since 1987, the HIV Center at Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute has been conducting cutting-edge research into the behavioral causes and consequences of HIV infection. Its exemplary work helped earn it a $10 million, five-year grant focusing on the theme of ?Meeting the Challenges of Global AIDS at the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Mental Health.?
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Columbia University Medical Center/New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Room 6602
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Speakers include:Anke Ehrhardt, Ph.D. ? has been the director of the HIV Center since its beginning in 1987. She is an internationally known researcher in the field of sexual and gender development of children, adolescents, and adults. For the past 25 years, her research has included a wide range of studies on determinants of sexual risk behavior among children, adolescents, heterosexual women and men, and the gay population, and on comprehensive approaches to preventing HIV and STD infection.Zena Stein, M.B., B.Ch. - is co-director emeritus of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies. Her work in the international arena builds on her varied research experience in epidemiology, especially epidemiology of reproductive and developmental disorders, mental health, environmental hazards, and, since the early 1980s HIV infection.Claude Ann Mellins, Ph.D. - is an associate professor of clinical psychology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University Medical Center and a research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Medical Center. Over the past 15 years she has completed projects examining individual and family psychosocial factors mediating medical adherence in HIV-infected women and children; sexual and drug use risk behavior in uninfected youth with HIV-infected mothers; and psychiatric and psychological functioning in HIV-infected mothers and children.Alex Carballo-Diguez, Ph.D. - is associate director of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies and a professor of clinical psychology (in psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center. His areas of research comprise sexual risk behavior of men who have sex with men (especially those of Latin American ancestry), primary prevention in couples of mixed HIV serostatus, partner notification of exposure to HIV, and microbicide acceptability.Robert H. Remien, Ph.D. - is associate professor of clinical psychology (in psychiatry) Columbia University Medical Center. His research focuses on mental health, sexual risk behavior, and adherence interventions for HIV serodiscordant couples; changes in attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors associated with HIV medical treatment; HIV testing behaviors; and the development of behavioral interventions for people with acute HIV infection. Theresa Exner, Ph.D. - is an assistant professor of medical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. In partnership with the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, she has launched a state-wide structural intervention to promote female condom use. She also is developing and will pilot-test an intervention to promote reproductive health among HIV+ women and men entering primary HIV Care in Cape Town, South Africa.