The title of the conference was "Preventing HPV-Associated Cervical Cancer and Genital Warts." This program focused on the types of HPV that cause cervical cancer and genital warts and the treatment strategies and advances to prevent them. The role of the nurse practitioner as an educator is particularly sensitive when the knowledge to be imparted is about sexually transmitted-disease prevention. It may necessitate surmounting ethical issues regarding the provision of vaccines to sexually inexperienced preadolescents, adolescents and adults. The relative “silence� of HPV and the potential devastation of its sequelae make education and vaccination important factors in reducing the incidence of HPV and cervical cancer. Professor Moriarty Daley presented a session titled, "Educating and Counseling Patients and Their Families: Discerning Fact from Fiction."