Training in the Clinical Management of HIV Disease

July, 2009

                Training in the Clinical Management of HIV Disease
                      for International Healthcare Workers

Dear Friend of The Arthur Ashe Endowment:

    We are pleased in 2010 to again offer the HIV training/educational program launched in 1996 by the Endowment here at Cornell.  For 2010, the program will be offered in April, May, October and November.
    This program is open to MDs from abroad who wish to receive additional training in the clinical management of HIV disease.  We want to encourage clinically-active, qualified physicians who are currently directly caring for HIV-infected individuals in their home countries to apply to our program which will be offered at The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center located in Manhattan in New York City.
    I am writing to request your help in identifying physicians who would be appropriate applicants for our program and to ask you to encourage them to return an application.  (Please see link below or have your candidate e-mail me and request an application by e-mail or FAX.)  Please feel free to duplicate the application form and hand it out.  While healthcare workers from any part of the world should apply, we are particularly interested in physicians who practice HIV medicine in regions where access to such training is limited.  A good command of spoken and understood English is required for all applicants.  The deadline for receipt of applications for the year 2010 is 1 October 2009.
    In brief, we are offering a one-month training program designed as an update in the clinical management of HIV disease. The curriculum includes time spent on our inpatient and outpatient HIV units in Medicine, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics-Gynecology; observation at other AIDS units in New York City; time spent in conferences and in the Medical College library.  We will provide roundtrip airfare to New York and room and board adjacent to the Medical Center.
    The objective of this program is to extend the usefulness of our clinical training facilities beyond New York City to international healthcare workers dedicated to the care of HIV-infected individuals.  It is our hope, once physicians return to their home HIV/AIDS units, that this program will have positive ripple effects on both their patients as well as local medical colleagues.  We are delighted to offer this international training program which directly reflects Arthur Ashe's commitment to AIDS education and patient care and his unique stature as a Citizen of the World.
    Thank you very much for helping the Endowment to extend this program.  Please contact me if I can provide additional information.

Sincerely, 

Henry “Hank” W. Murray, MD
Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Director, Arthur Ashe Endowment for the Defeat of AIDS
Weill Cornell Medical College
1300 York Avenue, Box 136
New York, NY 10065
Tele: 212-746-6330
FAX: 212-746-6332
E-mail: hwmurray@med.cornell.edu

http://www.sochinf.cl/documentos/AAE_Application_2009.doc