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Oral Abstracts 3: From Policy to Service Delivery: The hepatitis response insights and innovations

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Track 3
Monday, August 5, 2019
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Endeavour Ballroom 3

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Dr Nick Scott
Head, Modelling & Biostatistics
Burnet Institute

Australia will need to increase testing to achieve hepatitis C elimination

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

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Dr Nick Scott is an Econometrician at the Burnet Institute. He uses mathematical and economic models to generate evidence for the most effective hepatitis elimination strategies.
Ms Kerrin Param
Cnc Hepatology Partnership
Sunshine Coast University Hospital

All stories matter in HCV elimination

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

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Kerrin Param has worked most of her career in community with 10 years in Alcohol and Other Drug Service Far North Queensland and Fraser Coast. Community involvement contributed to outcomes. Kerrin commenced work with Sunshine Coast University Hospital and Hepatology Partnership mid 2017.
Ms Maria McMahon
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Hepatitis NSW

HEPATITIS C IS A ROCK N ROLL BRAND: TAKING DBS TESTING TO BLUESFEST

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

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Maria McMahon has worked in the BBV/STI sector with sex worker, HIV and viral hepatitis community based organisations for 25 years and is currently engaged as the Deputy CEO of Hepatitis NSW.
Mr Brian Price
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Alfred Health

INTEGRATING HEPATITIS C CARE WITH MENTAL HEALTH AND ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG SERVICES

3:15 PM - 3:20 PM

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Brad Whitton is a hepatitis clinical nurse consultant with Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia. He works in hospital outpatient departments and provides an outreach service to multiple community, primary health and general practice settings across Melbourne. He has many years of experience working in the HIV, Sexual Health and Hepatitis sector.
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Dr Alisa Pedrana
Senior Research Fellow
Burnet Institute

OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGAGING PATIENTS IN CARE ALONG THE HEPATITIS C CASCADE OF CARE

3:20 PM - 3:25 PM

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Alisa Pedrana is public health practitioner and senior research fellow at Burnet Institute. Her research career has focussed on Blood-borne virus/Sexually Transmitted Infections epidemiology and surveillance to inform prevention practice and policy. With a strong emphasis on research translation, her current work on Hepatitis C elimination is focussed on implementation science to strengthen health systems, enhance health service delivery and develop sustainable models of care.
Dr Joe Doyle
Deputy Program Director, Disease Elimination
Burnet Institute

SCALING UP HEPATITIS C TREATMENT AMONG HIV CO-INFECTED INDIVIDUALS REDUCES PREVALENCE AND NEW INFECTION: THE CO-EC STUDY

3:25 PM - 3:30 PM

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Dr Doyle is an infectious diseases physician at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.
Ms Samira Hosseini
Phd Student
VHCRP, The Kirby Institute, UNSW

LOW HCV REINFECTION INCIDENCE FOLLOWING DAA TREATMENT SCALE-UP IN PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV IN AUSTRALIA

3:30 PM - 3:35 PM

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I am a second-year PhD candidate (Scientia Scholar) at The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Australia. My PhD project aims to assess the feasibility of rapid scale-up of DAA therapy and its impact on the proportion with HCV viraemia among HIV-HCV population in Australia.
Ms Jo Holden
Director, Population Health Strategy & Performance
NSW Ministry Of Health

HEPATITIS C ELIMINATION IN NSW BY 2028 – PRIMING THE SYSTEM TO DELIVER EQUITY IN NSW

3:35 PM - 3:40 PM

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Jo Holden is the Director, Population Health Strategy and Performance in the Centre for Population Health at the NSW Ministry of Health. She is responsible for the implementation of state-wide targets within the NSW HIV, sexually transmissible infection and viral hepatitis strategies and policy, system and governance reform across NSW.
Ms Stelliana Goutzamanis
PhD Student
Burnet Institute

DISTRIBUTION OF HEPATITIS C TREATMENT RELATED KNOWLEDGE AMONG PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS: A LONGITUDINAL QUALITATIVE STUDY

3:40 PM - 3:45 PM

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Stelliana is a third year PhD student. Her thesis explores the personal level benefits of direct-acting antiviral treatment for hepatitis C. She is interested in quality of life, health behaviours and the treatment experience.
Ms Morgan Stewart
Research Coordinator
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney

HEPATITIS C TREATMENT STRATEGY FOR PRISONS: A COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM

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Dr Kwon uses mathematical models and health economics to evaluate the effectiveness and cost- effectiveness of past prevention and/or clinical programs. She is working at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, leading CV projections and estimations project in Australia.
Ms Sichan He
Phd Student
The Kirby Institute, University Of New South Wales

IMPROVED SURVIVAL FOLLOWING HEPATITIS C-RELATED HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA DIAGNOSIS IN THE DIRECT-ACTING ANTIVIRAL THERAPY ERA IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA

3:50 PM - 3:55 PM

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Sichan He is a PhD student at The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney.
Ms Rebecca Lothian
CNC Hepatitis C Treatment Coordinator
Kirketon Road Centre

THE CHALLENGE OF FOLLOW-UP: HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA SURVEILLANCE IN MARGINALIZED PATIENTS WITH CIRRHOSIS TREATED FOR HCV IN A LOW THRESHOLD PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SETTING

3:55 PM - 4:00 PM

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Rebecca is a clinical nurse consultant at the Kirketon Road Centre and the Hepatitis C Treatment coordinator

Chair

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Avik Majumdar
Staff Specialist Hepatologist
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Sue Sheppard-law
Senior Research Fellow (nursing)
Sydney Children's Hospital Network & Univesity Of Technology Sydney

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