HIV & AIDS: Theme B Symposium (ARV Guidelines) - Optimising Care
Tracks
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| Monday, November 6, 2017 |
| 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
| Royal Theatre |
Details
This session will focus on updates on the use of Antiretroviral therapy including treatment simplification and minimising toxicities and measures to maximise quality of care. Learning Objectives: To increase understanding on the use of currently antiretroviral therapy and strategies to simplify and modify regimens to minimise toxicity and simply previously used salvage therapy. To understand measure that can improve the quality of care and quality of life for people in HIV care.
Speaker
Prof Georg Behrens
Lecturer
Hannover Medical School
Professor Jennifer Hoy
Director of HIV medicine
Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Optimising Quality of Care: How to enmesh quality improvement into routine HIV Care
2:20 PM - 2:40 PMBiography
Jennifer Hoy is an Infectious Diseases physician from Melbourne, who has been involved in HIV patient care and research since the mid-1980s. She has sat on ARV guidelines panels in Australia and internationally. Her current research interests include the comorbidities associated with Aging and HIV, especially Bone and Cardiovascular Disease.
A/Prof Graham Brown
Research And Evaluation Director
Centre For Social Impact, UNSW
Optimising Quality of Life –The Fourth 90% - How to Include Quality of Life in Guidelines
2:40 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Dr Graham Brown is a senior research fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University and he primarily works with community based organisations focusing on building evidence for community driven responses to BBV and STI.
Dr Mark Bloch
ASHM President
Managing Partner of Holdsworth House Medical Practice
Panellist
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Dr Rick Varma
A/ Director
Sydney Sexual Health Centre
Panellist
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
