Above: Emily Marie Herzberg (NHS'08), Allison Boyd (NHS'08), and Mariah Marshall (NHS'07), students within the Department of Human Science at NHS, stand by their poster on antiretroviral drug resistance in HIV/AIDS. Below: Irene Jillson, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Nursing at NHS, addressed the CID conference.

NHS Students Earn Third Place At CID Conference

On Monday, February 26, 2007, the Georgetown University Center for Infectious Disease (CID) hosted its third annual conference on campus.

The event included three keynote presentations and three symposia relating to research, clinical applications, and the policy, legal, and ethical considerations pertaining to infectious diseases.

At the day-long conference, undergraduates from the School of Nursing & Health Studies presented their poster detailing their research on antiretroviral drug resistance in HIV/AIDS. Emily Marie Herzberg (NHS'08), Allison Boyd (NHS'08), Mariah Marshall (NHS'07), Miguel de Leon (NHS'10), Nicole Lamparello (NHS'08), and Allison Porter (NHS'08), all of the Department of Human Science, won third place for their poster. The undergraduates worked closely with NHS faculty members, including Charles Evans, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Human Science, and Michael Relf, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Nursing.

In addition, Irene Jillson, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Nursing, addressed the topic of, “Epidemiology's Role in Health Policies on Infectious Disease Control and Prevention.”