All the BIG GUNS (or should I say Cannons) Speaking Thursday Night

Speakers Include:
Paula Cannon
John Zaia
Dale Ando

The City of West Hollywood is co-sponsoring the upcoming HIV Matters town hall event — Countdown to a Cure: California Leads the Way. The quarterly HIV Matters town hall forum is a collaborative effort between AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) and community partners. Each HIV Matters forum focuses on updates regarding HIV treatment, prevention, and care efforts in Los Angeles County and worldwide.
The upcoming town hall will take place on Thursday, July 30, 2015 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Plummer Park’s Fiesta Hall, located at 7377 Santa Monica Boulevard. Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m.; an educational program will begin at 6:35 p.m. The event is free and is open to the public.
The forum will bring together members of the HIV community and leading researchers to discuss clinical trials that are now underway, and other approaches that are being investigated to cure AIDS. Speakers will include Paula Cannon, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Keck School of Medicine of USC; David Hardy, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Calimmune; John Zaia, M.D., Chair of Virology, City of Hope, Duarte; Dale Ando, M.D., Vice President of Therapeutic Development and Chief Medical Officer, Sangamo BioSciences; and Jeff Sheehy, CIRM Board Patient Advocate Member for HIV/AIDS.
The City of West Hollywood, incorporated in 1984, has been disproportionally impacted by HIV and AIDS. It was the first city to fund services for most of the local organizations established in the mid-1980s in the early response to the AIDS crisis. Today, the City of West Hollywood continues to provide funding to support HIV and AIDS education, prevention, and medical services — as well as programs for mental health, food, housing, and community enhancement — for community members.
Since its founding in 1983, AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) has grown to become of the largest and most effective AIDS service organizations in the nation. Services and programs are offered to 11,000 clients each year.