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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, July 26, 2023
  • 07:00 – 08:00 CST
    Breakfast Session: Getting Funded
  • 07:00 – 08:00 CST
    Breakfast Session: STI Testing Symposium
  • 07:00 – 11:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Traveller Group
  • 07:00 – 18:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Community Group
  • 07:00 – 18:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Early Career Research Group
  • 07:00 – 18:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Silver Group
  • 08:30 – 09:30 CST
    PL3 - Plenary 3: Sexual Health during Social Disruption

    Moderator: Liz Foley

    Moderator: Janet D. Wilson, MD – The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O7 - Improving management of gonorrhea in times of increasing antimicrobial resistance

    Moderator: Hunter Handsfeld

    Moderator: Katherine Hsu, MD, MPH – MDPH

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O8 - The Future of STI Detection and Treatment: AI, Bots, and More!

    Moderator: Preethi Pathela

    Moderator: Yudara Kularathne, MD, FAMS – HeHealth.ai

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O9 - It’s worth a shot: the Science of stopping a global syphilis epidemic, one genome at a time

    Moderator: Khalil G. Ghanem, MD, PhD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Moderator: Marco Cusini

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Spotlight 3 - Epidemic Preparedness: Mpox and Beyond

    Moderator: Andrew Winter, PhD (he/him/his) – NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

    Moderator: Kyle Burnstein

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Symposium 5 - Novel strategies to optimise vaginal health

    Moderator: Christina A. Muzny, MD, MSPH (she/her/hers) – Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Moderator: Erica L. Plummer, PhD (she/her/hers) – Monash University and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Symposium 6 - Centering Equity, Inclusion and Diversity in STI/HIV Research

    Moderator: Dascus Jagadisa-devasri

    Moderator: Lizzi Torrone

    Invited Talk

  • 11:30 – 13:00 CST
    Advocacy Zone
  • 11:30 – 13:00 CST
    Lunch Session: ASTDA Awards (Lunch is only available to session attendees)
  • 13:00 – 14:00 CST
    PL4 - Plenary 4: ASTDA Young Investigators

    Invited Talk

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    LB2 - Late Breaker - 2: gonorrhoea and M. genitalium
  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    O10 - STIs: a global health crisis, but not a lost cause

    Moderator: Joseph D. Tucker – Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; Clinical Research Department, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

    Moderator: Jorge Saevedra, MD MPH MSc (he/him/his) – AHF-Mexico and AHF Global Public Health Institute

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    O11 - Gonorrhoea: epidemiology and vaccine

    Moderator: Jo-Anne Dillon

    Moderator: Maria Luiza Bazzo

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    O12 - Reducing stigma and improving care for sexual minorities and other vulnerable populations

    Moderator: Lei Zhang, PhD (he/him/his) – Central Clinical School, Monash University

    Moderator: Beth Meyerson, PhD, MDiv. (she/her/hers) – Family and Community Medicine Harm Reduction Research Lab College of Medicine-Tucson University of Arizona

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    Spotlight 4 - Addressing the HIV and STI Syndemic: What Prevention Looks Like in 2023

    Moderator: Meredith Clement, MD (she/her/hers) – Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans

    Moderator: Matthew R. Golden, MD, MPH – University of Washington

    Invited Talk

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    Symposium 7 - Emerging and Neglected STIs

    Moderator: Remco Peters, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Foundation for Professional Development

    Moderator: Pingyu Zhou

    Invited Talk

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    Symposium 8 - Implementation to Scale

    Moderator: Jeanne Marrazzo

    Moderator: Patricia Kissinger, BSN, MPH, PhD (she/her/hers) – Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

    Invited Talk

  • 16:00 – 17:30 CST
    Invite Only: GARDP
  • 16:00 – 18:00 CST
    Advocacy Zone
  • 16:00 – 18:00 CST
    Poster Session
  • 16:30 – 18:00 CST
    Atlas of Queer Anatomy