HIV/AIDS Law and Practice Conference • Dallas, TX • April 9-10, 2008
Conference Materials and Notes
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Plenary Sessions
HIV in the Workplace: Global Demographics in 2008 and Beyond
Allen A. Herman, M.D., Ph.D., Consultant in Health Care, Public Health and Epidemiology, S&H Consulting, LLC
What’s New? Federal Initiatives and Proposed Legislation
M. Christine Cagle, PhD, Associate Director for Policy and Planning, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention,
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
Hon. Barbara Lee, U.S. House of Representatives, 9th District of California (video download)
Immigrating, Traveling, and Working Abroad with HIV
John Nechman, Katine & Nechman, LLP
Warren Jimenez, Executive Director, National Native American AIDS Prevention Center Women and Girls and HIV
Francis E. Ashe-Goins, R.N., M.P.H., Deputy Director, Office on Women’s Health,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HIV in Latino Communities
Dennis deLeon, J.D., President, Latino Commission on AIDS
HIV and Human Rights at Home and Abroad
Joanne Csete, Interim Executive Director, Firelight Foundation
Jonathan Cohen, Director, Law and Health Initiative, Open Society Institute
Track A (Advocacy Track)
HIV and Social Security: Mock Hearing
Hon. Jodi Levine, U.S. Administrative Law Judge, Social Security Administration
Veronica F. Jacobs, AIDS Project Director and Senior Attorney, Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program, Inc.
Jeff Skarda, Esq.
Jerry Larson, Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program
HIV and the Rights of Youth
Alison Mehlman, Director of Planning and Policy Research, Center for HIV Law & Policy
Margo Kaplan, Staff Attorney, Center for HIV Law & Policy
Working Again: Issues Faced by HIV-positive Employees Returning to Work
Mitchell Katine, Katine & Nechman, LLP
Justin Hayford, Case Manager, AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
Criminal Law and HIV: Current Trends and Enforcement
John Nechman, Katine & Nechman LLP
David W. Webber, J.D., Editor, AIDS and the Law
Alphabet Soup: Accessing HIV Medications through Government Programs
John Coburn, Senior Policy Attorney, Health & Disability Advocates
Work-based Insurance
Ronda Goldfein, Executive Director, AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania
Debra Wolf, LegalHealth
What’s New? Cutting-Edge Case Law
Catherine Hanssens, Executive Director, Center for HIV Law & Policy
Wendy Parmet, Professor, Northeastern University Law School
Scott Schoettes, Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal
States Respond to the CDC’s Routine HIV Testing Recommendations
Scott Schoettes, Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal
Marsha A. Martin, D.S.W., Director, Get Screened Oakland
The HIV Housing Crisis: How Can Lawyers Respond?
Gary Grier, Director of Programs & Services, AIDS Foundation Houston, Inc.
Track B (Business Track)
Employees with HIV: Are Your Clients Ready?
Peter Petesch, Ford & Harrison, LLP
Robert Bailey, II, M.P.H., Program Manager and Project Officer, Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS Program, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
HIV Prevention and Education at Work: Best Practices
Paula Church, HIV/AIDS Coordinator, International Labor Affairs Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
Employer Obligations to HIV-positive Employees
Peter Petesch, Ford & Harrison, LLP
Sharon Rennert, U.S. Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission
Voluntary HIV Testing and Counseling at Work
Ernesto De La Torre, Global Coordinator HIV/AIDS, Chevron Corp.
Wm. Lane Porter, Esq.
Labor-Management Collaborations to Address HIV
Evelyn Tomaszewski, Project Director, HIV/AIDS Spectrum, National Association of Social Workers
John Bonnage, HIV/AIDS Educator
Winifred Carson-Smith, Owner and COO, Carson Company, LLC
Paying for HIV Care and Treatment: Everything an Employer Needs to Know
Ann Hilton Fisher, Executive Director, AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
Fighting HIV/AIDS: What Is a Corporation’s Responsibility?
David Greeley, Senior Director, Global HIV/AIDS Programs, Merck & Co., Inc.
Bob Bronzo, Program Manager, Funders Concerned About AIDS
