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Session O:  Models of care: targeted interventions in various settings

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Track 3
Thursday, September 12, 2019
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Fortifications, Level 9

Speaker

Dr Maia Japaridze
Georgia Country Project Manager
FIND

APPROACHES TO PROVIDING HEPATITIS C VIREMIA TESTING TO PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS IN GEORGIA, HEAD START (HEPATITIS ELIMINATION THROUGH ACCESS TO DIAGNOSTICS) GEORGIA

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

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Speaker Presentation

Video Recording

Biography

Dr Japaridze has been the FIND Country Project Manager in Georgia since 2017, she has completed the South Caucasus Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (SC-FELTP) offered by the US CDC, and prior to that has served as a clinician in several countries.
Dr Stéphanie Marsan
Assistant Clinical Professor
Centre hospitalier de l'Université De Montréal

INCREASING ACCESS TO ADDICTION SERVICES FOR INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN QUEBEC: AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF CARE BETWEEN ONEN’TO:KON HEALING LODGE, INDIGENOUS SERVICES CANADA AND THE CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L’UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

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Biography

Dr Stéphanie Marsan is a clinical assistant professor and Program director of the addiction medicine specialty program at the Université de Montréal. She is also an attending physician in the addiction medicine service of the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.
Mrs Noreen Reed
Nursing Manager
Ahtahkakoop Health Clinic

Micro-elimination of Hepatitis C among people who use drugs in an Indigenous community in Saskatchewan Canada

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

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Noreen Reed is the nurse manager and a band member of Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation. She is a champion for her community, continually advocating, fostering partnerships, and innovating to deliver services and supports in community. She holds a Master's degree in Nursing, focused on leadership and teaching.
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Ms Gladys Ngwei
Nurse
Medecins Du Monde-France

SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF HEPATITIS C AMONG PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS IN NAIROBI, KENYA

2:45 PM - 2:50 PM

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Gladys is a Harm Reduction Nurse at Medecins Du Monde-France, Kenyan Program, with a wide knowledge and experience in implementing harm reduction intervention for people who use drugs with a specific focus for Women who use drugs. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Public Health from Kenyatta University.
Mr. Wm. Colter Young
Pharmacist
Shoppers Drug Mart

PHARMACIST-LED HCV SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT IN AN OPIOID SUBSTITUTION THERAPY OUTPATIENT PHARMACY

2:50 PM - 2:55 PM

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Colter Young is a clinical pharmacist with a passion for improving access to healthcare for individuals within the inner-city and other marginalized populations. He is the co-founder of the SDM-CHOICE program; one of the first non-specialist led models of hepatitis C care for those accessing opioid substitution therapy.
Ms Verónica Saludes
Postdoctoral Researcher
Germans Trias I Pujol University Hospital Research Institute (igtp)

Evaluation of the Xpert HCV Viral Load Fingerstick assay in the harm reduction setting in Catalonia, Spain

2:55 PM - 3:00 PM

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Biography

She is a Postdoc Researcher at the Clinical Virology and New Diagnostic Approaches Group led by Elisa Martró. Their activity focuses on improving the diagnosis of viremic HCV infection among key populations at risk of infection, through the design and implementation of new assays and testing algorithms in the community.

Chair

Shashi Kapadia
Instructor Of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

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Alexandra King
Cameco Chair In Indigenous Health And Wellness
Univeristy Of Saskatchewan

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