Update on Alternative Dosing Strategies for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
Sharon Mannheimer, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons
Faculty Member, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Harlem Hospital, New York, NY
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Dr. Mannheimer’s career in Infectious Diseases has focused on HIV, including clinical care of HIV-infected patients, research on adherence to HIV therapy, and also research on HIV prevention. Dr. Mannheimer helps oversee HIV Services at Harlem Hospital including several Ryan White-funded programs, which provide primary care and other supportive HIV services for residents of Harlem and neighboring communities. She is currently involved in conducting HIV prevention research as the Site Leader of the NIH-funded Harlem Prevention Center Clinical Research Site, located in Harlem and part of ICAP in Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. She was the Site Principal Investigator of the ADAPT Study, an HIV Prevention Trials Network study assessing dosing strategies for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication to prevent HIV infection among at risk HIV negative individuals in New York City. She also previously served as member of the Priority Setting and Resource Allocation Committee of the HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council of New York City, and was a past elected member of the New York State Medical Care Criteria Committee, which develops New York State HIV clinical practice guidelines HIV-infected adults.
At the completion of this educational session, learners will:
- Become familiar with the findings of the IPERGAY and ADAPT studies of intermittent PrEP.
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- Learn the main side effects of PrEP.
- Understand common barriers to PrEP adherence.
This CME activity was approved for
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ on September 8, 2015 and will terminate September, 2018.
The target audience is all physicians, NPs and PAs involved or interested in HIV education.
This online video and post-activity evaluation are one hour in length.
After you complete the video portion of this educational activity there will be a post-activity evaluation and quiz.
You must achieve at least 70% correct to receive your CME certificate.
If successful, you will be provided instructions to print your CME certificate at the completion of this activity.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) and the Physicians’ Research Network (PRN). MSSNY is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Medical Society of the State of New York designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with extent of their participation in the activity.
Policies and standards of MSSNY require that speakers and planners for CME activities disclose any relevant financial relationships they may have with commercial interests whose products, devices or services may be discussed in the content of a CME activity.
Dr. James Braun (Planner/Course Director) had no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Dr. Sharon Mannheimer (Presenter) had no relevant financial relationships to disclose. Dr. Mannheimer submitted her slides in advance for adequate peer review, and will support her presentation and clinical recommendations with the best available evidence from the medical literature.
This PRN CME activity is funded in part by unrestricted educational grants from:
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Merck & Co, and ViiV Healthcare.
To obtain CME credit for this and other PRN programs, please visit the
PRN Courses page at the Clinical Education Initiative (CEI) web site. PRN and the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) jointly sponsor PRN enduring materials for CME, and provide them at no cost to the AIDS Institute of the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) for broadcast through the CEI. We thank the NYSDOH for making our CME programs available to a wider audience, and hope you will also browse the many other educational opportunities offered by the CEI.
