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Research Oral Abstract Session - Innovations in Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment

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Friday, October 15, 2021
10:55 AM - 12:30 PM

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Prof Jason Grebely
Professor
Unsw/ Kirby Institute

Point-of-care HCV RNA testing, linkage to nursing care, and peer-supported engagement and delivery to enhance HCV treatment among people with recent injecting drug use at a community-led needle and syringe program: the tempo pilot study

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

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Jason is the Head of the Hepatitis C and Drug Use Research Group at the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney.
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Dr Håvard Midgard
senior consultant / associate professor
Oslo University Hospital

A peer-led mobile HCV clinic for people who inject drugs outside the urban centers

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

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Håvard is a specialist in internal medicine and gastroenterology at Oslo University Hospital and and postdoctor at Akershus University Hospital. His research interests include HCV epidemiology, models of care and general hepatology. He is a founding member of the Norwegian Center for HCV elimination and a former INHSU board member.
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Professor Carla Treloar
Professor
UNSW Sydney

Deadly Liver Mob: Implementation of an Aboriginal-Led Model for Increasing Access to Hepatitis C Education and Screening across NSW, Australia

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

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Carla Treloar is Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney.
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Dr Beth Catlett
Post Doctoral Research Scientist
St Vincent's Applied Medical Research Centre

Diagnostic accuracy of assays using finger-stick capillary and dried blood spot samples for determination of hepatitis C RNA detection: A systematic review and meta-analysis

11:45 AM - 11:50 AM

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Beth Catlett is a Final year PhD student, her thesis focuses on emerging technologies and implementation science to increase uptake and linkage to care in people who inject drugs. Beth is also the dried blood spot coordinator at St Vincent’s AMR where focusing on BBV testing, primarily HIV and HCV.
Dr. Andrea Bregenzer
Senior Physician
Cantonal Hospital Aarau

HCV-elimination in a Swiss heroin substitution program by four-weekly infectious disease specialist-visits with antibody rapid tests, mobile GeneXpert® and Fibroscan®

11:50 AM - 11:55 AM

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Internist, Infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist engaged in the HCV-management of opioid agonist therapy patients, founder member of SAMMSU (Swiss Association for the Medical Management in Substance Users), member of the Swiss Hepatitis Strategy, special interest in minimally-invasive diagnostic tests and treatment on-site, Swiss and German citizenship
Dr. Brianna Norton
Assistant Professor
Montefiore Medical Center

HCV GET-UP: A Group Evaluation and Treatment Uptake Intervention Improves HCV Linkage to Care for PWID

11:55 AM - 12:00 PM

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Dr. Norton is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Montefiore Medical Center. She conducts research to improve HCV treatment for people who inject drugs. She is also the medical director of a syringe exchange program in East Harlem.
Dr. Philip Korthuis
Professor Of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University

Peer-facilitated telemedicine hepatitis C treatment for rural people who use drugs: Early experience from a randomized trial

12:00 PM - 12:05 PM

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Dr. Korthuis is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Oregon Health & Science University where he leads the Addiction Medicine Section. His research focuses on improving harm reduction and treatment for people who use drugs. He serves as principal investigator for multiple NIH trials.
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Dr. Jens Rosenau
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Kentucky

Addition of Patient Navigator and Social Worker to Interdisciplinary Hepatitis C Team Increases Treatment Uptake: Results of the Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Care-C Trial.

12:05 PM - 12:10 PM

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Dr. Rosenau is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Kentucky, where he is the Acting Director of hepatology.
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Dr Michael Traeger
Research Fellow
Burnet Institute

Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on hepatitis C testing at primary care and community health services in Victoria, Australia

12:10 PM - 12:15 PM

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Michael is a PhD student and research assistant working on the ACCESS surveillance project.
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Dr Alison Marshall
Research Fellow
UNSW/Kirby Institute

“Not just one box that you tick off”. Deconstructing the hepatitis C care cascade in the interferon-free direct acting antiviral era – areas for improvement from the client perspective

12:15 PM - 12:20 PM

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Alison Marshall is a postdoctoral researcher with a background in clinical epidemiology and social science. Her work is focused on increasing access to hepatitis C treatment for persons with a history of injection drug use.
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Dr David Whiteley
Senior Lecturer
Glasgow Caledonian University

Developing a theory informed pathway for primary care-initiated hepatitis c virus treatment in Scotland

12:20 PM - 12:25 PM

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Dave is a lecturer in adult nursing at Glasgow Caledonian University, and remains a registered nurse. He worked clinically as a HCV nurse specialist for a number of years, before moving into academia in 2017.

Chair

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Evan Cunningham
Senior Lecturer Fellow
Unsw/ Kirby Institute

Rosie Gilliver
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Kirketon Road Centre


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Kim Beadman
Research Assistant
Unsw

Mitchell Beadman
Research Assistant
Unsw Csrh

Andrea Bregenzer
Senior Physician
Cantonal Hospital Aarau

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Beth Catlett
Post Doctoral Research Scientist
St Vincent's Applied Medical Research Centre

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Jason Grebely
Professor
Unsw/ Kirby Institute

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Nazanin Hooman
Research Associate
University Of Kentucky

Philip Korthuis
Professor Of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University

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Alison Marshall
Research Fellow
UNSW/Kirby Institute

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Håvard Midgard
senior consultant / associate professor
Oslo University Hospital

Brianna Norton
Assistant Professor
Montefiore Medical Center

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Jens Rosenau
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Kentucky

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Michael Traeger
Research Fellow
Burnet Institute

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Carla Treloar
Professor
UNSW Sydney

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David Whiteley
Senior Lecturer
Glasgow Caledonian University


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