Concurrent Session 2C: Spotlight Session - Integrated care in practice
Tracks
Track 3
| Thursday, August 13, 2026 |
| 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM |
Speaker
Ms Vanessa Watson Love
Service Manager, Community Health
DISC Trust
A One Stop Integrated Model: Full Blood Borne Virus Screening in A Nurse and Peer Led Community Harm Reduction Clinic
11:50 AM - 1:00 PMBiography
Pam Sharpe
Harm Reduction Nurse
Pam is a highly experienced and compassionate Registered Nurse with 40 years of dedicated service across palliative care, aged care, and community nursing. Her deep commitment to people and communities has shaped a rich and meaningful career guided by kindness, respect, and genuine care.
Mielle Abbott
Hepatitis CNC
Melbourne Health
A collaborative, nurse-led Electronic Medical Record project: improving data capture, uptake and outcomes for an integrated hepatitis C outreach service. Finding friends who can fit a square peg in a round hole and kill two birds with one stone.
11:50 AM - 1:00 PMBiography
Mielle works as a viral hepatitis CNC with the Royal Melbourne Hospital's nurse-led integrated hepatitis C mobile outreach team. Working in partnership with peer workers, she is passionate about improving equitable access to stigma-free care and patient outcomes by using data and systems to support, report and evaluate clinical care.
Adam Gregson
Nurse Practitioner - Hep B Hub WA
Royal Perth Hospital
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Outcomes and Experiences of Implementing a Specialist Hepatology Multidisciplinary Meeting for Aboriginal People Living with Viral Hepatitis in Western Australia.
11:50 AM - 1:00 PMBiography
Adam is a Hepatology Nurse Practitioner working at Royal Perth Hospital and within the community. With a focus on building capacity within primary care, he is passionate about reimagining approaches to viral hepatitis management and models of care, particularly for marginalised communities facing ongoing stigma and health inequity.
Dr Pamela Lyttle
Public Health Physician
Health Services Department of Justice
An analysis of prisoners treated for Hepatitis C and outcomes of treatment, in Perth South Metro Prisons 2024 - 2025
11:50 AM - 1:00 PMBiography
Dr Heather Lyttle has worked in Sexual Health and Public Health. The last 20 years of her career were in West Australian Country Health working in regional public health After retirement in 2022 she began part time work in Hepatitis C management for the Department of Justice.
Dr David Atefi
Career Medical Officer in Sexual Health Medicine
RPA Sexual Health - Sydney Local Health District
Viral hepatitis screening, vaccination and management at a Sydney Publicly Funded Sexual Health Clinic
11:50 AM - 1:00 PMBiography
Dr David Atefi is a Career Medical Officer in Sexual Health Medicine at Sydney Local Health District, and a Staff Specialist at the Parramatta Public Health Unit. He completed his FAFPHM in February 2025. He also holds a MPH and a Clinical Associate Lectureship at the University of Sydney.