RCMI Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus

Workshop Facilitators: Dr. Emma Fernandez-Repollet, Dr. Abe Schwartz, Dr. Frank Mandy and Dr. Tobias Rinke de Wit.

AIDS International Symposium 2002

Dr. Emma Fernández-Repollet, Director of the RCMI Program and Professor in the Department of Pharmacology attended the XIV AIDS International Symposium held in Barcelona, Spain, July 7-12, 2002. She participated as a facilitator of the Workshop: How to select, evaluate and maintain the correct CD4 T-cell counting method for HIV/AIDS treatment. The workshop was organized by Francis Mandy and Michele Bergeron from Health Canada. Other facilitators included Dr. Tobias Rinke de Wit, Manager Research & Development, PharmAccess International, Amsterdam,The Netherlands and Dr. Abe Schwartz, President, Center for Quantitative Cytometry , San Juan, Puerto Rico.

From left: Dr. Emma Fernández-Repollet, Dr. Antonia Novello, Dr. Mandela, and William Clinton

The Symposium was attended by more than 10,000 scientists, activists, policymakers, media and people living with HIV. Special speakers included Antonia Coello Novello, M.D., M.P.H. former Surgeon General of the United States and current New York State Health Commissioner, Honorable William Clinton, ex-President of the United States and Honorable Nelson Mandela, ex-President South Africa.

Emma Fernández-Repollet, Ph.D.
RCMI Program

Emma Fernández-Repollet,Ph.D.

Program Director

RCMI Program

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Email: efernandez@rcm.upr.edu

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