Concurrent Session 5A: Abstract Session - All Things Liver Health: From Awareness to Action
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| Friday, August 8, 2025 |
| 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM |
| Ballroom 3 |
Speaker
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Welcome & Introduction
11:45 AM - 11:50 AMBiography
Dr Dina Moussa
Research Assistant/phd Candidate
Burnet Institute
Significant gaps in the cascade of care contribute to poor liver cancer outcomes among people with hepatitis B: a retrospective-prospective longitudinal cohort study.
11:50 AM - 12:05 PMBiography
Dina is a Master of Public Health graduate. She is currently working as a Research Assistant in the Viral Hepatitis Elimination working group at the Burnet Institute. She is also undertaking a PhD degree focusing on public health interventions to reduce deaths from hepatitis B-related liver cancer.
Associate Professor Jessica Howell
Principal Research Fellow And Hepatologist
St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
Gaps remain in the hepatitis C care cascade among people with hepatocellular carcinoma: an Australian retrospective multicentre cohort study
12:05 PM - 12:20 PMBiography
Assoc Professor Jessica Howell is a consultant gastroenterologist at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and Head of the Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer Working Group at Burnet Institute and University of Melbourne. She is Chair of the GESA Liver Faculty.
Ms Madeleine Bolton
Health Promotion Officer
LiverWELL
Amplifying Community Voices: LiverWELL's Community Ambassador Videos in Hepatitis B and C Awareness and Stigma Reduction
12:20 PM - 12:25 PMBiography
Maddie is an early career Health Promotion Officer, she completed her studies at the Australian Catholic University, with a double degree in Applied Public Health and Business Administration. She is passionate about improving health outcomes for marginalised Australians and improving care for those living with a chronic health condition.
Ms Mia Flynn
Research Assistant
Burnet Institute
Hepatitis B & Vaccination Serostatus and Associated Factors among People Who Inject Drugs and People Experiencing Liver Disease in Yangon, Myanmar
12:25 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
Mia Flynn is a Research Assistant at Burnet Institute, working in the field of implementation science. Her work primarily focuses on viral hepatitis within key populations, and program design and implementation both within Australia and in international contexts.
Dr Lilian Hor
Senior Research Scientist
Burnet Institute
Development of a rapid point-of-care self-test for liver damage
12:30 PM - 12:35 PMBiography
Lilian is part of the Burnet Diagnostics Initiative (BDI) working on the development of point of care diagnostics for liver disease. She has a background in protein chemistry, enzymology, structural biology, biophysical characterisation of proteins, and protein and cell-based assays.
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Questions & Discussion
12:35 PM - 12:45 PMBiography
Chairperson
Jessica Howell
Principal Research Fellow And Hepatologist
St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
Peter Revill
Head of Regional and Global Health
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL), Doherty Institute