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10G: HIV Abstracts Clinical Management - Clinical and implementation challenges

Tracks
Track 7
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
C2.2

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Chairs:
Rupert Handy, Auckland City Hospital
Catherine Bateman,Latrobe Community Health Services


Speaker

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Prof Don Smith
Sexual Health Specialist
Albion Centre

Low level Viraemia; don’t sweat the small stuff

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Biography

Professor Don Smith MD, FAChSHM, FRCP (London), is a Senior Staff Specialist at the Albion Centre, the largest ambulatory HIV clinic in Australia. The Centre treats over 3,000 HIV infected patients and provides sexual health screening to a predominantly MSM inner city population. Don graduated in medicine from Otago University in 1984 and obtained his MD in 1993. He has been clinically managing HIV infected patients for over 30 years, has been a principal investigator or co-investigator in over 30 clinical trials and an author on more than 100 papers relating to HIV management. Don holds a conjoint appointment with the School of Population Health, UNSW.
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Dr Eloise Williams
Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Physician
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory

Transient low-level HIV-1 viraemia in a blood donor: spontaneous HIV clearance or exceptional elite control

11:15 AM - 11:27 AM

Biography

Dr Eloise Williams is a Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Physician at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory. Her areas of interest include sexually transmitted infections, public health and translational research. She is completing a PhD focusing on novel diagnostics, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections at the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne.
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Dr David Griffin
Infectious Diseases Physician
Alfred Health

Knowledge and Attitudes About Solid Organ Transplantation for People with HIV in Australian Healthcare Providers and Consumers.

11:27 AM - 11:39 AM

Biography

David is an Infectious Diseases Physician, and PhD candidate at Alfred Health. He is involved in ambulatory and inpatient HIV and ID care, and with the Victorian s100 prescriber program for HIV medicines.
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Dr Michael Traeger
Research Fellow
Burnet Institute

Early implementation and acceptability of long-acting cabotegravir and rilpivirine treatment among people living with HIV and healthcare workers: baseline findings from the ICAROS study

11:39 AM - 11:51 AM

Biography

Michael is an epidemiologist and post-doctoral research officer in the HIV Prevention and Surveillance & Evaluation working groups and works at The Burnet. He is also a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA His research interests include: HIV & STI prevention, biostatistics and epidemiology.
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Mrs Naomi Hoffman
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Illawarra Shoalhaven Sexual Health Service

Implementing intramuscular antiretroviral therapy in a diverse regional cohort of people with HIV

11:51 AM - 12:03 PM

Biography

Naomi is a Kamilaroi woman and the Clinical Nurse Consultant at Illawarra Shoalhaven Sexual Health Service. Naomi is currently studying to become the first Aboriginal Sexual Health and HIV Nurse Practitioner and is passionate about improving HIV outcomes in the Aboriginal community.
HIV&AIDS 2024

Questions & Discussion

12:03 PM - 12:30 PM

Biography


Chair

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Catherine Bateman
Abortion, Contraception And Sexual Health Nurse
Latrobe Community Health Services

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Rupert Handy
I D Physician
Auckland City Hospital

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