Research Oral Abstract Session - Hospitalisations among people who use drugs
Tracks
Track 1
| Wednesday, October 13, 2021 |
| 4:25 PM - 5:20 PM |
Speaker
Dr Samantha Colledge-Frisby
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Curtin University
Hospital separations for injecting-related injuries and diseases among people prescribed opioid agonist treatment in New South Wales: a retrospective data linkage study
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Samantha Colledge is a fourth year PhD candidate at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Her work has largely focused on the epidemiology of harms associated with injecting drug use, including overdose, bacterial infections, and venous damage. She was awarded a Scientia Scholarship from UNSW in 2018.
Dr Ximena Levander
Assistant Professor
Oregon Health & Science University
Exploring perspectives of people who use drugs on hospital-based interventions for hepatitis c treatment using an access to care integrated framework – a qualitative analysis
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Dr. Levander is currently a Clinical Instructor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Starting July 2021, she will be an Assistant Professor at OHSU. Her research interests focus on developing and implementing effective interventions for delivering patient-centered, evidence-based substance use disorder and HCV treatment for people who use drugs.
Dr Magdalena Harris
Associate Professor
London School Of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Fear of inpatient opiate withdrawal: A modifiable barrier to health-care access for people who use illicit opiates
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Dr Harris is an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her expertise lies in qualitative methods and the social sciences of hepatitis C and harm reduction.
Dr Perrine Roux
Phd
Sesstim
Impact of drug consumption rooms on non-fatal overdoses, abscesses, and emergency room visits in people who inject drugs in France: results from the COSINUS cohort
5:15 PM - 5:20 PMBiography
Perrine Roux is a public health researcher at the SESSTIM unit with expertise in the field of community-based research and harm reduction. She is the PI of several projects related to care and prevention for drug users, using mixed-method and multidisciplinary approach.
Chair
Nico Clark
Medical Director, Medically Supervised Injecting Room
North Richmond Community Health
Samantha Colledge-Frisby
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Curtin University
Speaker - will not appear in Portal
Magdalena Harris
Associate Professor
London School Of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ximena Levander
Assistant Professor
Oregon Health & Science University
Perrine Roux
Phd
Sesstim
