Mission Statement of Physicians' Research Network

Our mission is to provide ongoing peer support to physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants providing care to people with, and at risk for, HIV disease and/or viral hepatitis. Like the patients we serve, we face many issues of clinical uncertainty. PRN is committed to improving the diagnosis, management and prevention of these epidemic viral diseases and their complications, and to enhancing the broad spectrum of skills utilized by our members.

The Organization

The Physicians' Research Network (PRN) is a not-for-profit, peer-support and educational organization serving clinicians working in the fight against HIV and AIDS. PRN has held monthly educational meetings in New York City since 1990, and today has over 600 local PRN members serving over 70,000 thousand HIV patients in diverse practice settings throughout the greater metropolitan area. Aiming for the cutting edge of treatment and research, we have established a reputation for spotlighting the work of the most innovative and influential leaders in the field of HIV treatment and research. Our monthly meetings are always well attended, typically with over 100 clinicians present each month. Since 2001, PRN, in collaboration with the New York County Medical Society, has issued over 10,000 CME credit hours to our meeting attendees who complete PRN meeting evaluation forms. We are pleased to announce that we will be extending full membership, with advance notification and invitations to our monthly meetings in NYC, to all qualifying national subscribers to The PRN Notebook.

The PRN Notebook

Because the demand for information presented at our meetings is of interest to a far wider audience than we can serve face-to-face in New York City we have chronicled our meetings in The PRN Notebook since 1995. Our publication has gained recognition far and wide as one of the finest examples of technology transfer from medical research centers to front line primary care providers. We are constantly working to make treatment advances in HIV/AIDS understandable to more general audiences, and have now shifted away from our print publication to an entirely internet based publication with broader services including original, peer reviewed articles by clinicians and researchers, and online CME.

www.prn.org

Since 1998 our web site, www.prn.org, has served an ever-expanding audience. Our web site is the home of The PRN Notebook and much more, including our new CME feature, our new HIV life cycle, PRN News, PRN Images, and Provider Resources with handy clinical references and links. Because we are extending PRN membership privileges to qualifying subscribers nationwide, there will also be a new Members Only section, which will post dates and topics of our future meetings and allow online pre-registration for those wishing to travel to NYC to attend. We look forward to seeing you in New York!