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Session 3C - EPIDEMIOLOGY

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
11:15 AM - 12:50 PM
Riverbank 7

Speaker

Ms Paige Webb
PhD candidate
NDARC, UNSW

Global patterns of drug use among people who inject drugs

11:10 AM - 11:25 AM

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Ms Paige Webb is a PhD Candidate and Research Officer at NDARC, UNSW. The focus of her PhD project is exploring the impact of methamphetamine use on the families of people who use the drug. She is passionate about reducing the stigma surrounding people who use drugs and their families.
Dr Caitlin Douglass
Researcher
Burnet Institute

Alcohol and other drug use at Vanessa festivals and events 2023

11:25 AM - 11:40 AM

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Caitlin is a Senior Research Officer in the Disease Elimination program at the Burnet Institute, with a specific focus on using qualitative research techniques to explore the social determinants of health. She also has expertise in conducting research with young people on alcohol and other drug use.
Dr Lucy Attwood
Phd Candidate, ID Physician
Alfred Health and Monash University

Colonisation of people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Victoria with Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes

11:40 AM - 11:45 AM

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Dr Lucy Attwood is an infectious diseases physician who is currently completing her PhD titled 'Optimising management of injection-related infections in people who inject drugs.'
Dr Llewellyn Mills
Senior Research Associate
Specialty Of Addiction Medicine And South Eastern Sydney Local Health District

How Australians’ medical cannabis use has changed since deregulation: Results from the Cannabis As Medicine Surveys (CAMS).

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

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Dr Llew Mills is a postdoctoral researcher with the Discipline of Addiction Medicine, University of Sydney and South Eastern Sydney Local Health District drug and alcohol treatment and research centre. He has worked on the biennial Cannabis as Medicine Surveys (CAMS) since 2018 and is the chief investigator of CAMS-2022.
Dr Chrianna Bharat
Research Fellow
Ndarc, Unsw Sydney

Association of opioid analgesics, benzodiazepines, gabapentinoids, and opioid agonist treatment with mortality among individuals with opioid dependence

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

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Dr Bharat is a Biostatistician and early career researcher based at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. Dr Bharat recently completed her PhD which examined medicine use and outcomes among people with opioid dependence, leveraging new statistical research methods and data linkage to address clinically relevant questions.
Ms Ashleigh Stewart
Research Officer
Burnet Institute

emergency department presentations for injuries to the head among people who inject drugs in Victoria, Australia

12:15 PM - 12:20 PM

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Dr Stewart is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Burnet Institute in the Disease Elimination discipline. Her PhD explored mental health among men who inject drugs and have a history of imprisonment. Dr Stewart now coordinates the Melbourne Supervised Injecting Room cohort study and Australia's National Naloxone Reference Group.
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Dr Rowan Ogeil
Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
Eastern Health

Complexity in alcohol-related ambulance attendances: the role of comorbid mental health, suicide, and self-harm presentations during COVID-19 lockdowns

12:20 PM - 12:25 PM

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Dr Rowan P. Ogeil is a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, and Acting Strategic Lead of the National Addiction and Mental Health Surveillance Unit @ Turning Point. His background is in psychopharmacology specialising in interactions between AOD use and sleep, and AOD and mental health related ambulance attendances.
Ms Olivia Price
PhD student
University of New South Wales

Disruption to Australian heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and ecstasy markets with the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions

12:25 PM - 12:40 PM

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Olivia is a second year PhD candidate at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Her primary research interest is the prevention of infectious disease among people who inject drugs. Olivia is also a part-time Research Officer on the Drug Trends program.

Chairperson

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Chris Holmwood
Addiction Medicine Specialist
University of Adelaide

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