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AIDS Healthcare Foundation is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for CME and maintains strict adherence to the Essentials and Standards for granting AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for physicians who attend. In support of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's mission to provide cutting-edge medicine and advocacy, regardless of ability to pay, the CME program provides physicians, nurses and technical support personnel who are employed or affiliated within the delivery system, the medical knowledge base for delivering that health care. Through regularly scheduled medical conferences and seminars in all states in which AHF provides services, practicing physicians, including Internists, Family Physicians, Infectious Disease specialists and their associates, are kept informed of demographic trends, diagnostic tools, current therapies and social services designed to address the health needs of HIV-infected citizens of all ages. In response to contract mandates with federal and state agencies, physicians and case managers are educated and directed to locate and manage patients who may have limited access to private physicians, hospitals or insurance and managed care services. The expected results of this education and outreach are: firstly, the provision of immediate and long term care to an increasing number of persons living with HIV infection and, secondly, the reduction of costs associated with providing that care, as appropriate management of the disease reduces the incidence of opportunistic infections and hospital admissions. Statistics defining the outcome of these endeavors are regularly collected and reported, forming the basis for educational needs definition among the involved professionals. Continuing Medical Education (CME) Committee:
Homayoon Khanlou, MD AIDS Healthcare Foundation Chief of Medicine, US Homayoon Khanlou, MD is the Chief of Medicine, US at AIDS Healthcare Foundation. He is also the Associate Director of Research at AHF and the Medical Director and attending physician for the San Fernando Valley and Antelope Valley Healthcare Centers. Dr. Khanlou is Chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee at AHF. Dr. Khanlou is a leading clinical researcher in HIV/AIDS. As a member of the HIV vaccine trials, he conducted controlled trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of an anti-HIV ribozyme in HIV-positive patients. In addition, he is a principal investigator in pilot studies that research the safety, efficacy, tolerability and metabolic effects of new anti-retroviral drugs and therapies. His research has been published in several prestigious journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Journal of Internal Medicine, and Le Concours Medical. Dr. Khanlou has practiced at medical communities across the globe including the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, California Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of Los Angeles Medical Center, Cochin Hospital in Paris, France and Joffre Hospital in Draveil, France.	Dr. Khanlou is a featured lecturer at various medical institutions and functions and holds membership in numerous professional organizations and societies. He has spoken at L’Orangie, Patina, The American Academy of Physician Assistants, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and is a repeat speaker at Los Angeles Intercity HIV Rounds. Dr. Khanlou is a member of the American Society of Microbiology, American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, American Association for Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of HIV Medicine. Dr. Khanlou has received various prestigious recognitions. In addition to the Louis B. Schatz Memorial for best medical thesis, he also received the Sonia Stupniker Memorial Award at the Albert Einstein Medical Center for outstanding achievement in scholarly and research activity. Moreover, he has been honored by the University of Paris XIII, American College of Physicians, and AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Dr. Khanlou completed his undergraduate work and received his medical degree from the Bobigny Medical School at the University of Paris XIII. He completed his residency in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Albert Einstein Medical Center and postdoctoral training at the Laboratory of Pr. Didier Sicard at Cochin University Hospital. Dr. Khanlou is fluent in English, French, Persian (Farsi), and Turkish (Azerbaijani).
Robert Bolan, MD Los Angeles HIV Intercity Rounds Dr. Robert Bolan is the Medical Director and Director of Clinical Research at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center and an Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at the USC Keck School of Medicine. He opened his private practice in San Francisco in 1979 and along with other physicians at that time began seeing patients with generalized lymphadenopathy and other mysterious clinical problems long before we knew that they were caused by HIV.	Dr. Bolan practiced in San Francisco from 1979 to 1995, and served as the President of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation from 1983-1985. During his years in San Francisco he was also involved in various capacities in local governmental and community organizations that were responding to the AIDS crisis. In late 1995 he came to Los Angeles and in May 1996 he joined the LA Gay & Lesbian Center as Medical Director of the Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic.Dr. Bolan has a strong interest in the clinical care of patients with HIV infection, and in clinical research to help develop optimal treatment strategies. He is also committed to education and training for current and new generations of HIV care providers.
Joseph Cadden, MD Los Angeles HIV Intercity Rounds	[bio coming soon]
Jerry Gates, MD Los Angeles HIV Intercity Rounds	[bio coming soon]
Joseph Nussbaum, MD Los Angeles HIV Intercity Rounds	[bio coming soon]
Joe Church, MD Head, Division of Clinical Immunology/Allergy Director, The Childrens AIDS Center at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine at U.S.C. Dr. Church received his M.D. degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at Newark, New Jersey. He was trained in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital National Medical Center, Washington D.C., and in Allergy and Immunology at Georgetown University Medical Center. In 1977, he was board certified in Pediatrics and in Allergy and Immunology; the American Board of Allergy and Immunology is a conjoint board of the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Internal Medicine. Since joining the staff at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles in 1976, Dr. Church has focused his interest on children and adults with immune deficiency disorders.	In 1983, he identified the first cases in Southern California of Pediatric AIDS, and since that time has managed over 300 children and adolescents with HIV disease. He has written over 200 scientific abstracts and publications, and he has presented over 800 invited lectures on various topics in clinical immunology. He is the recipient of 8 visiting professorships, the distinguished service award at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (1992) for HIV education activities, the Distinguished Preceptor Award of the AIDS Education Training Center of Southern California at the University of Southern California, and he is listed in The Best Doctors in America and America’s Top Doctors for his work in Pediatric HIV. Currently, Dr. Church is the Head, Division of Clinical Immunology/Allergy and Director, The Childrens AIDS Center at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Keck School of Medicine at U.S.C.
Donna Stidham, RN Los Angeles HIV Intercity Rounds Donna Stidham, RN is the Chief of Managed Care for AIDS Healthcare Foundation. She has been involved in the care of persons with HIV disease since the first cases were identified in 1981 and began her continuous career of working with what is known now as HIV/AIDS first as a nurse epidemiologist when the first cases of immune deficiency were reported to the Centers for Disease Control. She was instrumental in 1984 in the opening of the first AIDS inpatient unit in a for profit community hospital in the nation, and has continually focused her efforts in developing systems of care that support the expertise necessary to provide medical care to persons with HIV/AIDS. She joined AIDS Healthcare Foundation in 1994 to lend her expertise in health systems and managed care in order to assist in the development and implementation of the first capitated managed care program for persons with AIDS, AHF’s Positive Healthcare®™.	Ms. Stidham has focused her energies in developing managed care systems of care for persons with HIV/AIDS and has overseen the growth and development of AHF managed care programs in California and Florida. Since 1995 the California Region of the Managed Care Division has hosted a MediCal capitated program for persons with AIDS, and in 2006 launched the nation’s first and only Special Needs Medicare Advantage-Part D Plan, Positive Healthcare Partners®™ for persons with HIV/AIDS. In 1999, the Florida Region of the Managed Care Division is home to the Agency for Health Care Administration’s (AHCA) innovative statewide Medicaid Disease Management Program for persons with HIV/AIDS. In 2005, the AHF Florida Disease Management program, Positive Healthcare®™ became the first nationally accredited HIV/AIDS Disease Management program by the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA). Ms. Stidham is very active in consulting with multiple state Medicaid programs to promote the concept of specialty design for chronic conditions such as HIV/AIDS and is working with the Foundation’s own Global operations leadership to bring managed care health system concepts to resource poor countries.