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Concurrent 4B: Scaling HCV Treatment

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Thursday, October 10, 2024
1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Nikos Skalkotas Hall

Speaker

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Professor Peter Vickerman
Professor Of Infectious Disease Modelling
University of Bristol

The impact and cost-effectiveness of scaling up HCV treatment for achieving elimination among people who inject drugs in England

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

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Biography

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Dr. Ane-Kristine Finbråten
Senior researcher
Unger Vetlesen Institute

IMPLEMENTATION OF LOW THRESHOLD HCV TREATMENT IN NEW YORK STATE

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

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Biography

Ane-Kristine FinbrÄten is a postdoctoral fellow at the Unger Vetlesen Institute. She focuses on care models for people who inject drugs and co-founded "The Centre for Elimination of Hepatitis in Norway". She was a 2021-22 Harkness Fellow at the Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine
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Mrs Mim O'Flynn
Kombi Clinic Nurse
Kombi Clinic

Reduction in hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence following three high intensity point-of-care HCV testing campaigns in a prison setting in Queensland, Australia

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

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Biography

Nurse Mim focuses on screening and linking homeless, marginalised and incarcerated people to Hepatitis C care and cure with Kombi Clinic. As well as leading fingerstick point-of-care testing campaigns throughout Queensland Corrections, she gets to wear a fabulous Hawaiian shirt and drives around in a bright yellow Van called Ruby.
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Prof Meghan Morris
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
University Of California, San Francisco

FACILITATING ACCESS TO DIRECT-ACTING ANTIVIRALS IN A COMMUNITY-BASED POINT-OF-DIAGNOSIS MODEL FOR HEPATITIS C TREATMENT: THE ROLE OF THE PHARMACY TEAM IN THE NO ONE WAITS (NOW) STUDY

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

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Biography

Epidemiologist working at the intersection of social justice and infectious diseases.
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Dr. Christian Ramers
Chief, Population Health
Family Health Centers of San Diego

SIMPLIFIED AND INTEGRATED HCV TESTING AND TREATMENT ALGORITHM FOR UNHOUSED PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

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Biography

Dr. Ramers is board-certified in internal medicine, infectious disease, and addition medicine. He served as assistant medical director leading MAT, HIV/HCV, and street medicine at FHCSD, a safety net clinic in San Diego, and was senior clinical advisor with the CHAI Global Hepatitis program. He is now an Executive Director of Global Medical Affairs in Virology at Gilead Sciences.
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Dr Evan Cunningham
Research Fellow
UNSW/Kirby Institute

REINFECTION FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL DIRECT-ACTING ANTIVIRAL THERAPY FOR HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION AMONG PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS: THE SHARP-C STUDY

3:00 PM - 3:05 PM

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Biography

Evan is a research fellow at the Kirby Institute in Sydney Australia. He is interested in clinical and interventional research to achieve HCV elimination.
Ms Shana Yi
Research Associate
Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre

Long term outcome following successful HCV treatment with Glecaprevir/Pibrentasvir in people who use drugs (PWUD)

3:05 PM - 3:10 PM

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Biography

Shana is a research associate at the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre specializing in HCV and HIV research amongst people who use drugs from the inner-city of Vancouver. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Rochester, New York.
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Dr Natasha Martin
Professor
University Of California San Diego

Illicit Fentanyl Use Independently Predicts HCV Seroconversion Among a Cohort of People Who Use Drugs on the US-Mexico Border

3:10 PM - 3:15 PM

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Biography

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Dr Myat Kay Khine
Deputy Director (HIV Care)
Asian Harm Reduction Network

FROM DISPARITIES TO SUCCESS: STRATEGIES FOR DECENTRALIZED HCV CARE AND INTEGRATION IN HARM REDUCTION IN MYANMAR

3:15 PM - 3:20 PM

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Biography

Dr. Myat Kay Khine is Deputy Director of AHRN and one of the technical supervisors who leads the medical intervention of the largest harm reduction organization in Myanmar, and she has more than 7 years of experience in the harm reduction field.
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Ms Mercy Nyakowa
HCV Testing & Treatment coordinator
National AIDs and STI Control Program ,Ministry of Health Kenya

HEPATITIS C TREATMENT EXPERIENCES AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGE AMONG PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS IN KENYA: A QUALITATIVE STUDY

3:20 PM - 3:25 PM

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Biography

Mercy Nyakowa has provided technical leadership in the design, implementation and dissemination of rigorous research programs bringing evidence-based health interventions to scale since 2011. Her research experience has been particularly centred around direct translation of research into evidence-based policy and practice in HIV&HCV prevention, care and treatment in Kenya.
Dr. Jennifer Havens
Professor
University Of Kentucky

OUTCOMES FROM THE KENTUCKY VIRAL HEPATITIS TREATMENT (KeY TREAT) TRIAL: A MODEL OF CARE FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE HEPATITIS C VIRUS IN A RURAL APPALACHIAN COUNTY IN THE U.S.

3:25 PM - 3:30 PM

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Biography

Dr. Jennifer Havens is a Professor and infectious disease epidemiologist at the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. She primarily studies HCV and other infectious complications of substance use in rural U.S. populations.

Chairperson

Olga Anagnostou
MD, Organisation Against Drugs
Organisation Against Drugs (OKANA)

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Mia Biondi
Assistant Professor
York University

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