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Michael Saag, MD, professor of
medicine at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) and holder of the Jim
Straley Chair in AIDS Research, will give UAB’s 34th annual Reynolds Historical
Lecture. Saag will present “Thirty Years of AIDS,” which will focus on the
history of the disease throughout the past 30 years.
Saag is an internationally known
AIDS clinician and researcher. He is a former chair of the HIV Medicine
Association, director of the UAB Center for AIDS Research, and a member of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ guidelines panel on
antiretroviral therapy. He has served on the board of the journal AIDS Research
and Human Retroviruses, authored dozens of scientific manuscripts, and
contributed more than 50 chapters to medical textbooks.
The lecture will be held at 4:00 p.m.
on February 22, 2013, in UAB’s Volker Hall, Lecture Room E., 1670 University
Blvd. The lecture is open to the public and a reception will follow.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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