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Session V: Beyond hepatitis C

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Track 2
Friday, September 13, 2019
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Montreal C & D, Level 11

Speaker

Ms Nanor Minoyan
PhD Candidate
University of Montreal, CRCHUM

Operationalizing the risk environment: spatial distribution of people who inject drugs and hotspots of social injecting activity in Montreal, Canada

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

Abstract

Video Recording

Biography

I am a PhD candidate in the Public Health (Epidemiology) program at the University of Montreal and affiliated CHUM research centre in Montreal, Canada. My research focuses on the role of social and geographic factors in shaping risk of HCV and drug-related harms among people who inject drugs.
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Dr Jack Stone
Senior Research Associate
University Of Bristol

THE IMPACT OF OPIOID AGONIST TREATMENT ON MORTALITY AMONG PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS: A 3 SITE MODELLING ANALYSIS

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Abstract

Biography

Jack is an infectious disease mathematical modeller based in Population Health Sciences at the University of Bristol. He works on mathematical models of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV transmission among high-risk populations, including people who inject drugs
Margherita Luciani
Post-doc Researcher
University Of Applied Sciences Of Southern Switzerland

GROWING OLD WITH DRUGS. PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON THE AGING PROCESS OF DRUG USERS IN OPIOID SUBSTITUTION TREATMENT

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Abstract

Speaker Presentation

Video Recording

Biography

Post-doc research assistant at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland. PhD in Communication Sciences (specialization in Discourse studies and Argumentation) from the Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland). Her research interests are in the areas of interaction in all kinds of contexts, ethnography of communication, argumentation and discourse analysis.
Prof. Robert Heimer
Professor Of Epidemiology
Yale School Of Public Health

Impacts of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Treatment for Patients in Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

2:30 PM - 2:35 PM

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Speaker Presentation

Video Recording

Biography

Brooke Severe is a Masters of Public Health student at Yale School of Public Health, graduating in May 2019. She became interested in hepatitis C research at an AIDS Education Month conference and has interned for the State of Maryland Department of Health, Center for Viral Hepatitis.
Dr Sarah Larney
Senior Research Fellow
National Drug And Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

AN INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF METHADONE AND BUPRENORPHINE DOSES USED IN THE TREATMENT OF OPIOID USE DISORDER

2:35 PM - 2:40 PM

Abstract

Biography

Sarah Larney is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Australia. Her research focuses on opioid and injecting drug use and related harms including hepatitis C, skin and soft tissue infections and exposure to law enforcement systems.
Dr Elana Rosenthal
Physician/clinical Researcher
University Of Maryland School Of Medicine

High Rates of Opioid Overdose and Witnessed Overdose in PWID Receiving HCV Treatment: Data from the ANCHOR Study

2:40 PM - 2:45 PM

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Biography

Dr Rosenthal is an infectious disease physician at the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and is co-director of the DC Partnership for HIV/AIDS Progress Hepatitis Clinical Research Program. Her research and clinical interests are the intersection of infections and substance use disorder.

Chair

Sione Crawford
CEO
Harm Reduction Victoria

Sarah Larney
Senior Research Fellow
National Drug And Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

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