WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18

11:00am – 3:30pm: INSTITUTES
1:00 – 4:00pm: HIV PCP INSTITUTE
1:00 – 5:00pm: HIV PNC INSTITUTE
4:00 – 5:30pm: TRACK SESSIONS

THURSDAY, MARCH 19

9:00 – 10:30am: PLENARY SESSION
10:45am – 12:15pm: TRACK SESSIONS
12:20 – 2:00pm: LUNCH PLENARY
2:15 – 3:45pm: TRACK SESSIONS
4:00 – 5:30pm: TRACK SESSIONS

FRIDAY, MARCH 20

9:00 – 10:30am: PLENARY SESSION
10:45am – 12:15pm: TRACK SESSIONS
12:20 – 1:30pm: LUNCH PLENARY

This schedule is preliminary and subject to change.

Alejandro Larios

Alejandro Larios is the FOCUS Program Lead at Baptist Health South Florida.


Alejandro holds a bachelor’s in health services administration and certified in leadership studies from Florida International University. Alejandro has helped develop and lead the first opt-out HIV, Hepatitis C (HCV) and syphilis screening program in Florida through the Frontlines of Communities in the United States (FOCUS) program model at Baptist Health of South Florida. Through Alejandro’s numerous years of hospital operations expertise and public health knowledge, he has disseminated this successful model both nationally and internationally, showcased through impactful presentations at conferences and documented in a publication. This model has been recognized by the CDC and Florida Department of Health as best practice for its ability to address multiple health epidemics. Alejandro has worked alongside state public health leadership and hospital leadership in ongoing refinements, enhancements, and replications of the FOCUS program.

Sessions from this speaker

Today

  • Forward in SYNChronicity for HIV Prevention

    Building Systemwide Capacity for Syndemic Screening: Baptist Health’s Expansion Across Miami-Dade County

    Studio F
    HIV Prevention Track

    Power of PreventionTo address the intersecting epidemics of HIV, Hepatitis C (HCV), and syphilis in Miami-Dade County, Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF) expanded its innovative Electronic Health Record (EHR) syndemic screening model across multiple emergency departments in 2024. Building on the success of Homestead Hospital (HH) and West Kendall Baptist Hospital’s (WKBH) routine HIV/HCV screening program, Baptist Main Hospital (BMH) and South Miami Hospital (SMH) implemented scalable workflows and smart syphilis screening algorithms into their EHR. This expansion was supported by strategic public-private partnerships with hospital leadership and the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County (DOH-Miami-Dade) which provided a dedicated Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) to ensure timely linkage to care and prevention services.

  • Forward in SYNChronicity for HIV Prevention

    Public-Private Partnerships: A Cost-Saving Model to Efficiently End Multiple Public Health Epidemics

    Studio E
    HIV Prevention Track

    Power of PreventionCongenital syphilis is a completely preventable condition that imposes a significant clinical and financial burden on our current strained healthcare system. In response to rising infection rates in Miami-Dade County, Homestead Hospital (HH) implemented an innovative, Electronic Health Record-integrated Syphilis Screening Algorithm in 2019, embedded within its existing routine HIV and Hepatitis C testing infrastructure.

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