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Reston, VA, and Geneva, Switzerland - February 20, 2007 - Clinical Care Options (CCO), a leader in the development of innovative, interactive medical education for healthcare professionals, and the International AIDS Society (IAS), the world’s leading independent association of HIV/AIDS professionals and custodian and lead organizer of the International AIDS Conference, have renewed their existing partnership arrangements through 2008.
The partnership means that CCO will continue to be the official provider of online scientific conference coverage for the major IAS annual conferences during this period. The 4th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention will be held in July 2007 in Sydney, Australia. The XVII International AIDS Conference will be held in Mexico City, Mexico, in August 2008.
“After carefully reviewing a large number of applications from medical education companies, we were delighted to renew our existing partnership with CCO. We were impressed with CCO’s ambitious plans to expand and improve upon the excellent online conference coverage program that it published for the International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, in 2006, as well as its 16-year track record in providing innovative high-quality education in the HIV arena,” said Craig McClure, Executive Director of the IAS.
“We expect the 4th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in July 2007 to attract more than 5000 delegates from around the world. Ensuring that the participants who attend, as well as those who are not able to be in Sydney, have access to the latest scientific information is vital to the success of the conference and to the practice of HIV/AIDS patient care. We look forward to working with CCO on this critical endeavor in meeting the needs of physicians and scientists globally,” said McClure.
“We are very pleased that the IAS continues to recognize the CCO Conference Coverage approach as a premier educational model and look forward to working with the IAS on its important scientific meetings in 2007 and 2008,” said Jeffrey L. Drezner, MD, PhD, CCO’s Chief Executive Officer and Founder. “The ongoing partnership with the IAS will help both organizations meet our shared goal of making educational resources available to healthcare professionals around the world that will enable them to provide state-of-the-art care for people with HIV.”
The collaboration provides conference delegates and readers around the world with direct access to state-of-the-art online, interactive, multimedia, medical education programs that translate the scientific data presented into clinically useful information. The CCO approach of providing educational data via a variety of online components—Capsule Summaries, Expert Analyses, multimedia slide presentations, and audio Podcasts—allows delegates the opportunity to adopt the information in a manner that best meets their needs.
About Clinical Care Options
Clinical Care Options, the leader in the development of innovative interactive medical education programs for healthcare professionals, creates and publishes original continuing medical education (CME) and information resources that translate the latest developments in science and medicine into treatment options. Utilizing specialty-specific advisory boards comprised of internationally renowned experts, Clinical Care Options develops exceptional editorial content for its proprietary state-of-the-art technology and distributes it online via its own specialty portals in HIV, hepatitis, and hematology/oncology. In addition to its industry-leading Web-based programs, Clinical Care Options disseminates the latest in medical treatment through live meetings, including the national Annual Clinical Care Options for HIV Symposium, and through print materials including books and monographs. For more information about the company and its programs, visit its Web site at www.clinicaloptions.com.
About the IAS
The International AIDS Society (IAS) is the world’s leading independent association of HIV/AIDS professionals, with more than 10,000 members from 171 countries. The IAS is the organizer of the IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention and is custodian and lead organizer of the International AIDS Conference. The IAS is actively engaged in HIV policy development and advocacy and education on behalf of its worldwide membership and has two main initiatives, the Industry Liaison Forum (ILF), focused on removing barriers to investment in research in resource-constrained nations, and eJIAS, a Web-based medical journal dedicated to the dissemination of HIV/AIDS research conducted in developing countries.
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