Models of Care Abstracts - Thursday
Tracks
Track 2
Thursday, October 14, 2021 |
4:10 PM - 5:25 PM |
Speaker
Ms Rachel Kanner
Project Manager
University of California, San Francisco
DeLIVER Care: Bringing Mobile HCV Services to the San Francisco Community
5:10 PM - 5:25 PMBiography
Rachel Kanner is the project manager for UCSF DeLIVER Care, a mobile HCV test and treat unit serving the San Francisco community. She received her MPH while working with the team to build and launch this project.
Ms Mercy Nyakowa
HCV Testing & Treatment coordinator
National AIDs and STI Control Program ,Ministry of Health Kenya
Integration of hepatitis C treatment with harm reduction services for people who inject drugs (PWIDS) in Kenya: Experience form test and link to care (TLC) study
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMBiography
A Public health researcher in the Ministry of Health Kenya providing technical leadership in implementation of the Test and Link to Care among PWID Study.
Current lead of HCV Reinfection Study in Kenya that describes reinfection rates among PWIDs. Prior, I Lead TLC-IDU HIV Study that leveraged on historic NSP
Mr Philippe Bonnet
Peer Coordinator
The Hepatitis C Trust
Hepatitis C test and treat roadshow – reaching homeless communities
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Philippe Bonnet is the Peer Support Lead for The Hepatitis C Trust working across the West Midlands Operational Delivery Network to coordinate a network of peers with lived experience of hepatitis C. The peer project offers education, support and linkage to treatment for those identified as at risk of HCV.
Dr XiaoHui Sem
HCV Country Project Manager (Malaysia)
FIND
Comparison of outcomes of partially decentralised HCV care in primary healthcare sites for PWID and non-PWID populations in Malaysia: The head-start project
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
XiaoHui joined FIND in June 2018 as HCV Country Project Manager for Malaysia. Together with in-country partners, she is responsible for implementing projects to support the simplification and decentralization of HCV testing in Malaysia. These activities aim to influence national guidelines for an effective HCV public health approach.
Ms Bernadette Lettner
Hep C Treatment Nurse
Toronto Community Hep C Program
Rapid hep C point-of-care RNA testing and treatment at an integrated supervised consumption service in Toronto, Canada
5:00 PM - 5:05 PMBiography
Bernadette Lettner with the Toronto Community Hep C Program at South Riverdale and Regent Park Community Health Centres. She is a dedicated activist who believes strongly that people speak best for and about themselves, and often amplifies messages of the life and death impacts of the war on drugs users.
Mrs Louise Hansford
Hep C Elimination Coordinator
Hep C U Later (Inclusion MPFT)
Hep C U Later - a National Health Service (NHS) Addiction Misuse Providers Alliance (NHSAPA) System-Wide Partnership Approach to Eliminating Hepatitis C (HCV)
5:05 PM - 5:10 PMBiography
Louise has worked in substance misuse for 16 years. She is passionate about empowering people to make changes and tackling discrimination. Louise's special interest is supporting people with HCV. In 2012, Louise set up award-winning Hep C Hants P2P project (Peer to Peer) which has seen over 350 successfully treated
Chair
Brendan Harney
Research Officer
Burnet Institute
Sinead Sheils
Nurse Practitioner - Hepatology
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Speaker - will not appear in Portal
Philippe Bonnet
Peer Coordinator
The Hepatitis C Trust
Louise Hansford
Hep C Elimination Coordinator
Hep C U Later (Inclusion MPFT)
Rachel Kanner
Project Manager
University of California, San Francisco
Bernadette Lettner
Hep C Treatment Nurse
Toronto Community Hep C Program
Mercy Nyakowa
HCV Testing & Treatment coordinator
National AIDs and STI Control Program ,Ministry of Health Kenya
XiaoHui Sem
HCV Country Project Manager (Malaysia)
FIND
