Keynote Speaker Robert Fullilove, EdD, Professor and Asst. Dean at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health

Keynote Speaker Valerie Stone, MD, MPH, director of Women’s HIV/AIDS Services at Mass. General Hospital and Asst. Professor of Medicine at Harvard

Current and former HAPIS Managers, Debra Szwejda and Randall (Randy) Pope

Ellen Ives, Andrea Kelly and DHAS Director Loretta Davis-Satterla (all former HAPIS Training staff)

Dr. Ali Naqvi accepting the "Living Memory" Award on behalf of his late partner Dr.Fredie Shea

Walter Washington accepts posthumous "Living Memory" Award on behalf of his late friend and colleague Schawne Parker

Anthony Harris received the "Taking It To The Streets" Award for HIV/STD Prevention Education in Outreach Settings

Kathy Wall receives "In the Trenches" Award for her work at the Kalamazoo County Human Services Department

Theresa Webb accepts the "Compassionate Heart" Award for her work in continuum of care at CHAG

STD Section Secretary Billie Robinson stops to welcome conference participants

Barbara Harris-Ellis, manager of the HAPIS Core Public Health Service Unit

Old friends from statewide planning, Mary Dillinger and Jon Lacey meet up at the conference awards banquet

Andrea Kelly (now with CDC in Atlanta), HAPIS TA Coordinator Amy Peterson, and CHAG Exec Cindy Bolden Calhoun - another reunion

Lansing Area AIDS Network's Patrick Lombardy and Exec Jacob Distel in front of NAMES Quilt panel they brought for display

Lansing Area AIDS Network's panel of the of NAMES Quilt on display with other exhibitors

Conference Co-Chairs, STD Section Admin. Program Manager Kris Judd and HAPIS Training Consultant Rhonda Bantsimba are recognized

The Conference Planning Committee recognized: Linda Draper, Brenda Stoneburner, (former Chair Andrea Kelly), Bob Wilcox

Kimberly Snell (at podium), Bob Barrie, Dee Hurlbert, HAPIS Co-Chair Rhonda Bantsimba,

Patrick Harris, STD Co-Chair Kris Judd, Laurie Bechhofer and Cheryl Gildner *

Conference Planner Diane Drago recognized

And the youngest guest at the Thurs. eve reception, Faith Lynch