UCSF The Medical Management of AIDS and Key Infections 2025

• Target Audience: intermediate-to-advanced HIV clinicians, infectious disease specialists
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UCSF The Medical Management of AIDS and Key Infections

**Fully Virtual on December 13, 2025 for all attendees**

Overview

For ambitious new clinicians who want a challenge, we still offer our New Clinicians Track (NCT). This track provides five additional lectures that cover antiretroviral therapy (ART) 101, basic HIV pharmacology, management of ART resistance, IRIS, and opportunistic infections.

Objectives

An attendee completing this course will be able to improve skills and strategies to:

Diagnose, treat, and prevent important conditions in HIV medicine and HIV medicine subspecialties, for improved patient outcomes;

Apply in practice the latest treatment guidelines and recommendations for the prevention of HIV transmission and the appropriate use of PEP, PrEP and DoxyPEP including the use of long-acting options;

Apply new recommendations for initiating and timely switching of antiretroviral combinations including long-acting ART in appropriate patients;

Identify new developments and apply treatment recommendations in HIV related, dermatologic, metabolic, cardiovascular, and addiction medicine;

Diagnose and apply new recommendations for the treatment of HBV, HCV, cirrhosis, MASH and MASLD;

Align practice patterns more with current evidence and guidelines for treating STI’s and HIV;

Apply in practice the latest transmission prevention guidelines for COVID, Influenza, and RSV as well as the updated treatment guidelines for COVID, Influenza and RSV;

Apply new recommendations for appropriate treatment of acute COVID-19 and Long COVID

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Thursday,

Dec 11, 2025

Robertson Auditorium, 2nd Floor

7:30AM

Breakfast and Registration Open

8:00AM

Introduction

Drs. Diane Havlir, Meg Newman, & Annie Luetkemeyer

PLENARY SESSION I: State of HIV: 2025 Perspective

8:10

Top Ten Issues in HIV Medicine

Dr. Diane Havlir

8:50

HIV Cure: Hope & Hype

Dr. Steven Deeks

9:30

Opportunities and Challenges in STI Prevention and Treatment

Dr. Stephanie Cohen

10:10

Break

PLENARY SESSION II: HIV Prevention

10:40

HIV Prevention: The Changing Landscape

Dr. Susan Buchbinder

11:15

Cases & Controversies in PEP, PrEP & STI prevention

Moderator: Dr. Oliver Bacon

Panelists: Drs. Stephanie Cohen, Franco Chevalier, Hyman Scott

11:55

Prevention Panel: Q&A

Drs. Bacon, Chevalier, Cohen, Scott

12:10PM

Lunch on Own

OPTIONAL LUNCH WORKSHOPS:

NCTNew Clinicians’ Workshop: ART101:   Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation: From Guidelines to Practice

Dr. Vivek Jain

Rapid Fire Derm for Primary Care

Drs. Herbert Castillo Villardares and Sarah Coates

PLENARY SESSION IlI: Antiretroviral Therapy – State of the ART

1:30

Introductory Remarks

Dr. Mark Smith

1:40

Long-acting Formulations: HIV and Beyond

Dr. Charles Flexner

2:20

The State of the Art of ART

Dr. Monica Gandhi

3:00

Break

3:30

Cases & Challenges with ART

Moderator: Dr. Anne Fenton Panelists: Drs. Gabe Chamie, Carina Marquez, Jorge Salazar

PLENARY SESSION IV: Complications of HIV

4:10

Great Cases from the Bay

Moderator: Dr. Andrew Kerkhoff

Panelists: Drs. Jawara Allen, Grace Haser, Sophie Lewis

4:45

Challenging HIV Neurology Cases

Dr. Felicia Chow and Dr. Paul Pritikanta

5:20PM

Adjourn

Friday,

Dec 12, 2025

7:30AM

Breakfast and Registration Open

Plenary Session V:  New strategies for Preventing and Managing Infections in 2025: Vaccines, RSV, COVID & More

8:00AM

G

RSV, Flu and more: Latest Updates in Respiratory Infections

Dr. Carina Marquez

Dr. Ted Ruel

8:35

G

Practical Approaches to Diagnosing, Treating & Preventing Long COVID

Dr. Michael Peluso

9:05

G

Innovative Strategies for Bacterial Infections: Making Dalbavancin Work for our Patients

Dr. Vivek Jain

9:30

G

Rapid Fire Vaccines questions and answers

Drs. Jain, Peluso, Marquez, Ruel

10:10

Break

PLENARY SESSION VI: WEIGHT MANAGEMENT &  ENDOCRINOLOGY

10:40

G

Weight Management: Cases from the Clinic

Dr. Matthew Hickey

11:10

Endocrine Updates for 2025

Dr. Lisa Murphy

11:45

Lunch on Own

OPTIONAL LUNCH WORKSHOPS:

TRACK A

A Panel on Emerging AI and Digital Tools for the Clinician

Robertson Auditorium, 2nd Floor

Dr. Vivek Jain

Dr. Xinran (Leo) Liu

Dr. Brian Schwartz

TRACK B

NCTNew Clinicians’ Workshop

The Building Blocks of HIV Therapy

Pub Lounge, 1st Floor

Dr. Parya Saberi

PLENARY SESSION VII:  SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

1:30

Cases from the STI Clinic in 2025

Dr. Oliver Bacon

2:05

Reproductive & Gyn Care in HIV Medicine

Dr. Dominika Siedman and Dr. Lealah Pollock

PLENARY SESSION VIII: DERMATOLOGY

2:40

HIV Dermatology: Cases from the Clinic

Dr. Kieron Leslie

3:20

Break

PARALLEL TRACKS (choose one)

NCTNew Clinicians’ Workshops

NCTIntroduction to ARV Drug Resistance

Robertson Auditorium, 2nd Floor

Dr. Susa Coffey

NCT Cases from the Inpatient HIV Service: OI’s and IRIS Robertson Auditorium, 2nd Floor

Drs. Andrew Kerkhoff and Grace Haser

Infectious Disease Updates for HIV Clinicians

What’s New in TB?

Dr. Gustavo Velasquez

Images in Clinical Medicine

Dr. Matt Spinelli

5:15

Adjourn

Saturday,

Dec 13, 2025

ZOOM ONLY

PLENARY SESSION IX: Optimizing Care of the HIV Patient

8:00AM

G

What’s new in HCV

Dr. Annie Luetkemeyer

8:30

G

Updates from the Hepatitis Clinic: MASLD, MASH, and More!

Dr. Jenny Price

9:00

G

Challenging Hepatitis Cases from the Clinic

Dr. David Thomas

9:25

G

Liver Panel

Drs. Luetkemeyer, Price, Thomas

9:40

Break

10:10

P

Substance Use Trends in the US: What Providers Need to Know

Dr. Katherine Grieco

10:40

P

Cases in Addiction Medicine and Pain Management

Dr. Ayesha Appa

11:10

P

Practical Psychiatric Pearls

Dr. William Smith

11:40

P

Interactive Panel: Psychiatry & Managing Substance Use and Pain

Dr. Paula Lum and Drs. Appa, Grieco & Smith

12:00PM

Lunch on Own

PLENARY SESSION X: ART Management Updates

ZOOM ONLY

1:00

Moderator: Dr. Susa Coffey

Panelists: Drs. Brad Hare, Anne Fenton, Annie Luetkemeyer

1:50

G

ID Pearls for HIV Providers

Dr. Lisa Winston

2:25

Break

2:40

G

HIV Cardiology in 2025: What you Need to Know

Dr. Priscilla Hsue

Dr. Matt Durstenfeld

3:20

Closing Remarks

Drs. Havlir, Newman, Luetkemeyer

3:30PM

Adjourn