Australasian Society for HIV Medicine

The 20th Annual ASHM Conference will be held at the Perth Convention Centre from 17 to 20 September 2008. The conference is being held back-to-back with the Australasian Sexual Health Conference.

Abstract submissions are now being accepted on the conference website: www.ashm.org.au/ashm08 

Invited speakers

• Dr. Roy Gulick, Director of the Cornell HIV Clinical Trials Unit and Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City
• Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Infectious Diseases Unit, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
• Professor Gita Ramjee, Medical Research Council HIV/ AIDS Lead Programme and HIV Prevention Research Unit Durban, South Africa
• Dr Sarah Rowland-Jones, Human Immunology Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Dr Bruno Spire, Social Researcher in Marseilles, France
  Professor Robin Wood, the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, UCT Faculty of Health Sciences Observatory, South Africa
• Professor Chris Burrell, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide
• Professor Martyn French, Clinical Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia and Clinical Immunologist at Royal Perth Hospital and PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Perth, Australia
• Associate Professor Paul Gorry, Head, HIV Molecular Pathogenesis Laboratory, Burnet Principal Fellow, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health. Associate Professor of Medicine, Monash University
• Dr David Wilson, Senior Lecturer, Curtin University of Technology Perth

Sponsors and supporters

• AusAID - Major Supporter
• Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing - Major Supporter
• Department of Health Government of Western Australia - Major Supporter
• GSK - Gold sponsor
• GILEAD - Gold sponsor
• Boehringer Ingelheim - Silver and Juice Bar Sponsor
• Merck Sharp & Dohme -Silver sponsor, Conference Scholarship Support and CD-ROM Handbook Sponsor
• Janssen-Cilag Tibotec - Bronze and Internet Area Sponsor
• Abbott - Bronze Sponsor
• BMS - Bronze Sponsor

More information

ASHM, Locked Mail Bag 5057, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1300
tel: 02 8204 0770
fax: 02 9212 4670
email: conferenceinfo@ashm.org.au
web: www.ashm.org.au/ashm08