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Session T: HCV Reinfection

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Friday, September 21, 2018
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Sala XII + XIII

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Dr Jasmine Schulkind
Academic Foundation Doctor
University Of Bristol

High Re-Infection Rates Among People Who Inject Drugs Successfully Treated For Hepatitis C In A Community Needle And Syringe Programme

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

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Academic junior doctor at Bristol Medical School. BMBS from Brighton and Sussex Medical School (2016) and an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Research interests include qualitative and public health/epidemiology research into HIV and Hepatitis C infection among high risk groups.
Dr Jake Rance
ECR
UNSW Sydney

Reinfection And Retreatment: Attitudes Among Prisoner Participants From The Australian SToP-C Study

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

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Jake is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney, with a longstanding interest in the potential of qualitative research to challenge the stigmatised identities and discredited knowledges widely associated with people who inject drugs and/or are living with hepatitis C.
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Dr. Evan Cunningham
Research Fellow, Viral Hepatitis and Clinical Research Program
Kirby Institute

Reinfection Following Successful HCV DAA Therapy Among People with Recent Injecting Drug Use: The SIMPLIFY and D3FEAT Studies

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

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Evan completed his PhD in 2017 looking at the transmission and treatment of hepatitis C infection among people who inject drugs. He now works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
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Prof Gregory Dore
Head, Vhcrp
Kirby Institute, UNSWSydney

Drug Use And Reinfection During And Following Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Treatment With Elbasvir/Grazoprevir (EBR/GZR) Among Patients Receiving Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT): The C-Edge Co-Star Study

2:30 PM - 2:35 PM

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Professor Dore is Head, Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, and Infectious Diseases Physician, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.
Mrs Tamar Kikvidze
Medical Coordinator
Medecins Du Monde - France

Low HCV Reinfection Rate After Treatment In People Who Infect Drugs (PWID) From A Prospective Cohort In Tbilisi, Georgia

2:35 PM - 2:40 PM

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Håvard Midgard
MD PhD
Oslo University Hospital

Low Rate Of Reinfection Following Direct-Acting Antiviral HCV Treatment Among People With Recent Injecting Drug Use: A Real-Life Experience

2:40 PM - 2:45 PM

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HÃ¥vard Midgard is a MD in gastroenterology/hepatology at Oslo University Hospital. He holds a PhD on HCV infection among PWID. His research has focused on HCV reinfection, treatment uptake and low-threshold models of care. He is a board member of INHSU and co-chaired the 2016 INHSU Symposium in Oslo.

Chair

Stefan Christensen
Physician
Infektiologische Praxisgemeinschaft Dr. Busch u. Dr. Christensen

Sarah Kattakuzhy
Assistant Professor
Institute Of Human Virology At The University Of Maryland

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