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Symposium: Practice makes perfect? How COVID-19 has transformed HIV & SH services in Australia - Content developed by ASHM, session supported by Mylan

Monday, November 16, 2020
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Speaker

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Professor Michael Kidd
Professor of Primary Care Reform
Australian National University

How primary health in Australia has responded to COVID-19

Biography

Professor Michael Kidd AM is Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Principal Medical Advisor with the Australian Government Department of Health, and Professor of Primary Care Reform at The Australian National University. He is a general practitioner, with a long standing special interest in the primary care management of HIV, a past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, a past president of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), and a past Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. Prior to returning to Australia in February 2020, he was Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Canada.
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A/Prof Vincent Cornelisse
Staff Specialist
NSW Health

AOD services during COVID-19

Biography

Vincent Cornelisse is a staff specialist in sexual health medicine at Kirketon Road Centre in Kings Cross, Sydney. In 2018 he completed his PhD at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (Monash University), titled "Epidemiology of gonorrhoea, chlamydia and HIV in men who have sex with men, and evaluation of new prevention strategies".
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Dr Claire Pickett
General practitioner
Ballarat Sexual Health Clinic

Rural HIV and sexual health services during COVID-19

Biography

Claire is a Monash graduate who lives and works in Ballarat, Victoria. She began her career as a rural GP in the township of Creswick for 10 years. She has worked exclusively in Sexual Health for the past 20 years providing a comprehensive community- based service to Ballarat and the Western district of Victoria.
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Mr Aaron Cogle
Director
National Association of People With HIV Australia (NAPWHA)

The service needs of PLHIV during COVID-19

Biography

Aaron Cogle, Executive Director of the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA)
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Dr Catriona Ooi
Doctor
Nslhd Sexual Health

The service needs of CALD communities during COVID-19

Speaker Presentation

Biography

Director of Sexual Health Service, Northern Sydney Local Health District and Senior Lecturer Sydney University Faculty of Health and Medicine
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Mr Bruce Hamish Bowden
Pharmacist
The Albion Centre

Pharmacy during COVID-19

Biography

Hamish Bowden is a HIV/Sexual Health Clinical Pharmacist at The Albion Centre, Sydney. He is passionate about educating clients and the community on recent advances in HIV prevention, such as PrEP and U=U and has a special interest in drug interactions between ARVs and prescribed and OTC medications and supplements.

Chair

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Benjamin Riley
Head of Policy
ASHM Health


Speaker

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Bruce Hamish Bowden
Pharmacist
The Albion Centre

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Aaron Cogle
Director
National Association of People With HIV Australia (NAPWHA)

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Vincent Cornelisse
Staff Specialist
NSW Health

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Michael Kidd
Professor of Primary Care Reform
Australian National University

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Catriona Ooi
Doctor
Nslhd Sexual Health

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Claire Pickett
General practitioner
Ballarat Sexual Health Clinic


Support Staff

Chris Buckley
Touchpoint

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Linda Starke
Event Coordinator
ASHM

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