Session L: Enhancing the HCV Care Cascade
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Thursday, September 20, 2018 |
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM |
Sala XII + XIII |
Speaker
Dr Stine Høj
Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre de Recherche du CHUM
Conceptualising Access In The DAA Era: Applying The Candidacy Framework To Inform Research And Practice In HCV Care For People Who Use Drugs
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
Stine is a postdoctoral fellow working within the behavioural and epidemiology research core of the Canadian Network on Hepatitis C. Her research interests center broadly upon understanding how structural and environmental forces shape behaviour, opportunity, and health, and employing innovative methods in research design and analysis to answer these questions.
Ms Sahar Bajis
PhD Candidate
The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Testing, Liver Disease Assessment And Direct-Acting Antiviral (DAA) Treatment Uptake And Outcomes In A Homeless Service In Sydney, Australia: The Liverlife Study
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Sahar Bajis is a PhD Scholar at the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales Sydney. She holds a master's degree in International Public Health and has extensive experience as a clinical pharmacist and in the field of international humanitarian aid.
Dr Alisa Pedrana
Senior Research Fellow
Burnet Institute
Straight To The Point – Lessons From The Rapid-EC Study: A Point-Of-Care Hepatitis C Testing Pilot In Needle And Syringe Programs Targeted To People Who Inject Drugs In Australia
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Alisa Pedrana is public health practitioner and Research Fellow at Burnet Institute. Her research career to date has focussed on BBBV/STI epidemiology and surveillance to inform prevention practice and policy with a particular interest in implementation science to strengthen health system and enhance health service delivery.
Dr Zameer Mohamed
Clinical Research Fellow
Imperial College London
Improving HCV Treatment Uptake In Prison: Breaking The 60-Day Barrier
2:30 PM - 2:35 PMBiography
ZM is a PhD Clinical Research Fellow at Imperial College London. He work is focused on assessing and improving the HCV care continuum in marginalised populations, which includes projects in a London prison as well as PWID in Tanzania.
Ms Marie Francis
Nurse
University College London
Improving Engagement With Healthcare In Hepatitis C: A Randomised Controlled Trial Of A Peer Advocacy Intervention
2:35 PM - 2:40 PMBiography
Marie Francis is a nurse with extensive clinical, research and health policy experience. Practice to date has included working in diverse areas, from critical care to outreach nursing-aimed at engaging hard to reach groups. After gaining a Master’s degree in Public Health at King’s College London in 2012, she has worked for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Imperial College London and is currently a research nurse at the institute for Global Health, University College London.
Mr Julian Surey
Research Nurse
University College London
Mobile Community-Based Liver Health Assessment In Underserved Populations: The Hepcare Project
2:40 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
PI to the HepCare project - funded by the European Commission Third Health Programme and research nurse at the Institute of Global Health, University College London, UK
Dr. Matthew Akiyama
Assistant Professor Of Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center
PhD Elisa Martró
Research group leader
Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital and Research Institute
Universal On-Site HCV-RNA Screening is Warranted Among Active PWID Who Attend Harm Reduction Centres in Catalonia, Spain (HepCdetect II Study)
2:50 PM - 2:55 PMBiography
Elisa Martró leads the Research Group on Clinical Virology and New Diagnostic Approaches at IGTP (Barcelona, Spain). Her research is currenly focussed on improving the diagnosis of hepatitis C virus in hard-to-reach groups through novel molecular assays and screening strategies, and in molecular epidemiology studies with public health impact.
Mr Rob Bielen
MD / Phd Student
ZOL Genk
Uptake Of Treatment For Hepatitis C Infection In People Who Inject Drugs: The Link Study
2:55 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Rob Bielen has started his training in Internal Medicine in 2013 at KULeuven in Belgium, and since 2015, he has started his PhD concerning screening, linkage to care and uptake for treatment for HCV, both in PWID and the general population.
Chair
Behzad Hajarizadeh
Associate Professor
Unsw / Kirby Institute
Amy Nunn
Associate Professor Of Public Health and Medicine; Executive Director
Brown University; Rhode Island Public Health Institute