Poster Tour 01
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Friday, July 21, 2023 |
3:40 PM - 3:55 PM |
Posters 1 - 3 |
Speaker
Ms Yumi Sheehan
PhD Candidate / Research Project Manager
The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales
Identifying and understanding the needs for hepatitis C (HCV) education to enhance HCV health literacy and HCV care for people in Australian prisons
3:40 PM - 3:45 PMBiography
Yumi Sheehan is a Research Project Manager and PhD candidate at the Kirby Institute UNSW Sydney, managing several hepatitis C and prison-based research studies. Yumi’s specific research focus is on interventions to enhance hepatitis C care for people in prison, including point-of-care testing, surveillance, and education.
Ms Aurelie Freismuth
Associate Director, Medical Affairs
Gilead Sciences
Curing hepatitis C virus (HCV) with direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatment: adherence and rapid onset of HCV RNA undetectability after 4 weeks of treatment with sofosbuvir/velpatasvir.
3:45 PM - 3:50 PMBiography
Aurelie Freismuth is a Doctor of Pharmacy. Her hospital internship focused on the cost-effectiveness of radiofrequency for the ablation of HCC and her doctorate thesis on the role of Oseltamivir in the treatment and prophylaxis of Influenza. Aurelie is currently Associate Director, Medical Affairs Liver diseases at Gilead Australia.
Dr Amy Kwon
Lecturer
Kirby Institute
Estimating HCV population size and care cascade by 2021 in Australia
3:50 PM - 3:55 PMBiography
Amy Kwon is a mathematician at the Kirby Institute. Her research involves the development of mathematical models to understand the epidemiology of HCV and predict the impact of DAA therapy. She is responsible for providing the key HCV estimates of prevalence and HCV-attributed disease for Australia's Annual Surveillance Report.
Chairperson
Melinda Hassall
Clinical Nurse Lead
ASHM