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Proffered Paper Session 8: Epidemiology, Public Health & Prevention Stream - Syphilis, Gonorrhoea and HPV

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Friday, November 2, 2018
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Princes Ballroom C

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Professor Eric Chow
Professor
Monash University

Kissing is an Important Risk Factor for Oropharyngeal Gonorrhoea in Men Who Have Sex with Men

4:00 PM - 4:05 PM

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Dr Eric Chow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Monash University in Australia. His research interests focus on sexual behaviours, the epidemiology, prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections with particular interests in gonorrhoea and human papillomavirus.
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Professor Eric Chow
Professor
Monash University

Oropharyngeal Infection is More Common Than Urogenital Gonorrhoea Infection Among Female Sex Workers Attending a Sexual Health Centre in Melbourne, Australia

4:05 PM - 4:10 PM

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Dr Eric Chow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Monash University in Australia. His research interests focus on sexual behaviours, the epidemiology, prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections with particular interests in gonorrhoea and human papillomavirus.
Dr Manoji Gunathilake
Sexual Health Physician
Centre For Disease Control, Northern Territory

Outbreak of Infectious Syphilis in the Northern Territory of Australia, No Downfall Yet!

4:10 PM - 4:15 PM

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Biography

Manoji is the sexual health physician in the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Northern Territory, Australia and holds a territory wide role as the lead clinician in the sexual health and blood borne virus unit of CDC. She is a conjoint senior lecturer at Kirby Institute of the UNSW.
Dr Jill Sherwood
Public Health Physician
Institute Of Environmental Science And Research Ltd (esr)

Increasing Syphilis Cases in New Zealand: Why We Should be Worried

4:15 PM - 4:20 PM

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Dr Jill Sherwood is a Public Health Physician in the Health Intelligence Group at ESR, focusing on the surveillance and response to communicable diseases. Jill has a particular interest in work that supports sexual health and has been co-author of the annual STI Surveillance Reports produced by ESR since 2013.
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A/Prof Vincent Cornelisse
Staff Specialist
NSW Health

Evidence for a new paradigm of gonorrhoea transmission: Concordance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections by anatomic site in 60 male couples. A cross-sectional observational study.

4:20 PM - 4:25 PM

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Vincent is a sexual health physician based in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently completing his PhD in sexual health epidemiology, focussing on the prevention of HIV and gonorrhoea.
Dr Helen Petousis-Harris
Vaccinologist
University of Auckland

Effectiveness of A Group B OMV Meningococcal Vaccine in Preventing Hospitalisation from Gonorrhoea in New Zealand – Cohort Study

4:25 PM - 4:30 PM

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Helen is presenting on behalf of Janine Paynter. I am a Vaccinologist, Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care and the Director of the Vaccine Datalink and Research Group. I am involved in immunisation-related research including clinical, social science, epidemiological and health systems. My main research areas are vaccine safety and vaccine effectiveness and I also engage in communication about vaccines. Janine Paynter: I am an epidemiologist currently working in vaccine effectiveness and immunisation coverage. I have considerable experience in observational studies using large, administrative datasets.
Miss Sophie Phelan
MAE Scholar
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney

Characteristics of Females with Gonorrhoea in NSW, 2018 – A Case Series Investigation

4:30 PM - 4:35 PM

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Sophie Phelan is a Master of Applied Epidemiology Scholar at the Kirby Institute UNSW and the National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Research School of Population Health.
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Professor Eric Chow
Professor
Monash University

Substantial Oropharyngeal Infections Missed by Urogenital-Only Screening for Gonorrhoea Among Heterosexuals Who Reporting Contact with Sexual Partners with Gonorrhoea

4:35 PM - 4:40 PM

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Biography

Dr Eric Chow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Monash University in Australia. His research interests focus on sexual behaviours, the epidemiology, prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections with particular interests in gonorrhoea and human papillomavirus.
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Dr Hayley Denison
Research Fellow
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University

Trends in Gonorrhoea Diagnoses at the Christchurch Sexual Health Centre, Aotearoa New Zealand, from 2012-2017

4:40 PM - 4:45 PM

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Hayley Denison is an epidemiologist from the Centre for Public Health Research at Massey University. Her research focuses on sexual health, specifically STI testing.
Dr. Pachara Sirivongrangson
Medical Physician, Advisory Level
Department of Disease Control, Thailand Ministry of Public Health

The Enhanced Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (EGASP) in Thailand, November 2015 - October 2017

4:45 PM - 4:50 PM

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Dr. Pachara Sirivongrangson is a Medical Physician in advisory level at Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health Thailand. She is a Principal Investigators of Enhanced Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (EGASP) — Thailand and the other projects that cooperate with U.S. CDC and WHO.
Ms Sheina Low
Student
Sydney Sexual Health Centre

Patient Attitudes to the Routine Provision of Antibiotic Therapy to Asymptomatic Contacts of Neisseria Gonorrhoea

4:50 PM - 5:00 PM

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Ms Low is an ILP student at UNSW
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A/Prof Vincent Cornelisse
Staff Specialist
NSW Health

Getting to the bottom of it: Sexual positioning and other associations with stage of syphilis at diagnosis among men who have sex with men.

5:00 PM - 5:05 PM

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Vincent is a sexual health physician and PhD candidate at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. His research focusses on STI transmission dynamics among men who have sex with men, with the aim of improving STI control strategies.
Daisuke Mizushima
Physician
National Center For Global Health And Medicine

High Prevalence of Anorectal HPV Infection and its Associated Factors Among MSM in Japan

5:05 PM - 5:10 PM

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Education: 2007 Graduated from Osaka University, medical school 2017 Graduated from Kumamoto University, PhD Professional Training and Employment 2007 Osaka University Hospital, internal medicine 2009 National Center for Global Health and Medicine, AIDS Clinical Center
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Professor Eric Chow
Professor
Monash University

High Prevalence of Anal High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Infections Among 20 To 26 Years Old Unvaccinated Men Who Have Sex with Men Presenting for a Targeted Vaccination Programme in Melbourne, Australia

5:10 PM - 5:15 PM

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Biography

Dr Eric Chow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Monash University in Australia. His research interests focus on sexual behaviours, the epidemiology, prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections with particular interests in gonorrhoea and human papillomavirus.
Q&A

Q&A

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

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Chair

Chris Bourne
Head
NSW STI Programs Unit

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Anne Robertson
Medical Lead Sexual Health Service
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