Poster Tour 03: Transforming Care: Innovative Models in Practice
Tracks
​
| Friday, August 8, 2025 |
| 11:05 AM - 11:35 AM |
| Posterboards 43-46 |
Speaker
​
Welcome & Introduction
11:05 AM - 11:10 AMBiography
Ms Rebecca Winter
Senior Research Fellow
Burnet Institute
Mrs Amanda Kvassay
Program Manager
QuIHN
QuIHN Hep C testing and treatment clinics: Going viral across Queensland
11:15 AM - 11:20 AMBiography
Amanda is the Program Manager at QuIHN – the Queensland Injectors Health Network. She works with a team of dedicated and passionate harm reduction workers, peers, prison transition workers and nurse practitioners to implement the Hep C Treatment Management Program, a statewide Hep C test and treatment model for people who inject drugs. Amanda has worked at QuIHN for nearly 10 years and prior to that worked in the AOD and NSP sectors for over 25 years.
Ms Grace Crowley
Program Manager, Community Support & Engagement
Hepatitis NSW
Hepatitis C testing and treatment motivations for First Nations communities
11:00 AM - 11:25 AMBiography
Grace has worked in the community sector for over 30 years at Streetwize Comics, NSW Council of Social Service and now Heaptitis NSW. Maia is a Kamilaroi/Tu hoe man, born on Darug land, raised on Gadigal/Bidjigal land. Maia is the Project Officer for Aboriginal Community Engagement at Hepatitis NSW.
Dr Laura McCoullough
Post-doctoral Researcher
VIDRL
Targeting HBV RNAs using CRISPR-Cas13b to reduce hepatitis B virus replication and antigen expression in vitro and in vivo
11:25 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Dr Laura McCoullough is a postdoctoral scientist at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory. She completed her PhD in the same lab, working on using CRISPR-Cas13b as a novel therapeutic for chronic HBV infection.
Chairperson
Christopher Camacho
Program Manager
ASHM