Concurrent 4B: Scaling HCV Treatment
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Thursday, October 10, 2024 |
1:45 PM - 3:30 PM |
Nikos Skalkotas Hall |
Speaker
Professor Peter Vickerman
Professor Of Infectious Disease Modelling
University of Bristol
Dr. Ane-Kristine Finbråten
Senior researcher
Unger Vetlesen Institute
IMPLEMENTATION OF LOW THRESHOLD HCV TREATMENT IN NEW YORK STATE
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
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
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 PMBiography
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.
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 PMBiography
Epidemiologist working at the intersection of social justice and infectious diseases.
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 PMBiography
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.
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 PMBiography
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 PMBiography
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.
Dr Natasha Martin
Professor
University Of California San Diego
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 PMBiography
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.
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 PMBiography
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 PMBiography
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)
Mia Biondi
Assistant Professor
York University
