HIV and Kidney Health: An Educational Inservice with Dr. Richard Torres

Gilead Community Medical Affairs presents a lunchtime educational inservice on HIV and kidney health on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at HVCS’ Hawthorne office. Dr. Richard Torres will detail the links between HIV and kidney disease, including pharmaceutical and dietary complications, risk factors and how to optimize kidney health.

Lunch will be provided, and there is no charge to attend.

This educational inservice is open to all service providers, social workers, outreach specialists, patients and the general public.

Dr. Richard Torres is the most senior Chief Medical Officer in the State of Connecticut. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and is a NYC police officer, Auxiliary Section, with the 20th precinct in New York City. Dr. Torres attended Fordham University and Harvard University and graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1983. He joined the faculty at Yale in 1987 and has served with the NYPD for the last three years. Among his many achievements, his most significant was being selected as Physician of the Year by the Connecticut State Medical Society, the first Latino and youngest ever in the 128 year history of the society.

To register, please contact Anthony at (914) 785-8277 or by email at aaccomando@hudsonvalleycs.org.