Session W: Models of care to enhance engagement in care
Tracks
Track 3
Friday, September 13, 2019 |
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM |
Fortifications, Level 9 |
Speaker
Mr Babu Entroor Ramachandran
Country Project Manager - HCV, India
Foundation For Innovative New Diagnostics (find)
COMMUNITY CENTRIC HCV TESTING AND TREATMENT FOR PWID IN MANIPUR, INDIA- THE HEAD START PROJECT.
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
A seasoned Public Health professional with 23 year experience in policies and programme management especially in the field of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, STI and HCV. Experienced in management large National programs with Government of India, International Organisations, CBOs, FBOs and NGOs.
Dr Emma Page
Consultant Sexual Health And Virology
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust
‘Get Tested LeEDs’: (Re)-diagnosing and (re)-engaging PWID with blood borne viruses (BBV) in an urban emergency department.
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Dr Emma Page is a Consultant in Sexual Health and Virology. She chairs the HIV Virology MDT and sits on the West Yorkshire Hepatitis C Operational Delivery Network. Emma is hepatitis lead for the BASHH HIV/BBV SIG. Her latest project, 'Get Tested LeEDs', offers BBV testing in the Emergency Departments.
Ms Karen Lundgren
Registered Nurse
Cool Aid Community Health Centre
TREATING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE: NURSE-LED HEPATITIS C (HCV) MICRO-ELIMINATION PROJECT FOR NETWORKS OF PEOPLE WITH RECENT INJECTING DRUG USE IN VICTORIA, CANADA
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Karen Lundgren is a certified registered nurse with a special interested in sexual health, infectious diseases, mental health and addictions. She is currently working at Cool Aid Community Health Centre, where the team of nurses has developed a nurse-led HCV micro-elimination project and PrEP program.
Dr Nick Scott
Econometrician
Burnet Institute
A cost-benefit analysis of primary versus hospital-based specialist care for direct acting antiviral hepatitis C treatment
2:30 PM - 2:35 PMBiography
Dr Nick Scott is an Econometrician at the Burnet Institute. He conducts mathematical and economic modelling studies to generate evidence for the most effective hepatitis C elimination strategies.
Dr. Rachel Epstein
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Boston Medical Center
ENGAGING MOTHER-INFANT DYADS IN HEPATITIS C CARE THROUGH PERINATAL PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES CONSULTATION
2:35 PM - 2:40 PMBiography
Dr. Epstein is an attending physician and post-doctoral research fellow at Boston Medical Center. She is trained in adult and pediatric infectious diseases, and her clinical and research interests focus on improving integrated HCV, HIV, and substance use syndemic care, particularly in pregnant women, infants and adolescents.
Jackie Habchi
HCV Pharmacist
Codac Behavioral Health
REMOVING HEALTH INSURANCE BARRIERS AND INCORPORATING HARM REDUCTION WITH A PHYSICIAN - NURSE - PHARMACIST TEAM, TO OPTIMIZE HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) TREATMENT IN A U.S. CO-LOCATED HCV/METHADONE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
2:40 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Jackie Habchi, PharmD is a 2017 graduate of the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy. She began working in HCV and specialty pharmacy in 2016 as a student. The first HCV pharmacist at Rhode Island’s only non-profit methadone maintenance program, she works to expand HCV care for vulnerable populations.
Chair
Chris Fraser
Medical Director
Cool Aid Community Health Centre
Lynn Taylor
Director Hiv And Viral Hepatitis Services
Codac