Session V: Models of Care for HCV Infection
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| Friday, September 21, 2018 |
| 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM |
| Sala II |
Speaker
Marguerite Beiser
Director Of HCV Services
Boston Health Care For The Homeless Program
Experience And Outcomes Of A High Volume Homeless Health Center-Based HCV Treatment Program In Boston
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
Maggie Beiser is the Director of HCV Services at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, where she also provides primary and HIV specialty care to homeless and marginally-housed adults with a high burden of complex medical illness, comorbid mental health and substance use disorders.
Ms Karen Lundgren
R.n.
Cool Aid Community Health Centre
Treating People Where They Are: Lessons From Outreach HCV Treatment For Networks Of People With Recent Injecting Drug Use In Victoria, Canada
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Tamara Barnett and Karen Lundgren are certified registered nurses working in primary care at a multidisciplinary clinic in Victoria, BC, Canada. The focus or their practice is sexual health, harm reduction, mental health and substance use, and infectious diseases. Tamara and Karen are currently leaders in a nurse-led hepatitis C micro-elimination outreach project.
Ms Jody Gilmore
Viral Hepatitis Coordinator
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Building Bridges to Eliminate HCV in PWID: Knowledge and Planned Performance Change Among HCV Treaters and Addiction-services Providers Engaged in a Pilot Education Initiative
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Ms. Jody Gilmore, Coordinator of the Viral Hepatitis Program, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, has been a nurse practitioner in the Infectious Disease Division since 1997. She also serves on the faculty of the Philadelphia AIDS Education and Training Center. Ms. Gilmore earned baccalaureate and master’s degrees from La Salle University.
Dr Matthew Young
Co-Founder & Co-Director Hep C Kombi Project
Medeco Inala General Practice
Liberating Medeco-Inala From Hep C. A Study Of Micro-Elimination In Primary Care
2:30 PM - 2:35 PMBiography
Matt is a General Practitioner in a low socio-economic area in Brisbane. Interests include addiction medicine and Hepatitis C eradication at a local level.
He captained his cricket club to every continent, defeating 13 full national teams. He represented the Australian Doctors Soccer team (the Docceroos) in 2003 and 2004.
Dr. John Farley
Infectious Diseases Specialist
Dr. John Farley Inc
Dr Simon Larsson
Resident Physician
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Hepatitis C Care In An Opioid Substitution Treatment Unit
2:40 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Previously resident in Clinical Microbiology and Ph.D. in virology (thesis title: Hepatitis B virus replication and integration). Today resident in psychiatry at the Addiction unit in Gothenburg. Work experience as a physician at an OST clinic as well as NSP.
Chair
Martin Kåberg
Senior Consultant
Stockholm Needle Exchange
Monica Mendes Sousa
Physician
Hospital Beatriz Angelo
