IVHEM
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Date(s)
17 Nov 2017 - 18 Nov 2017
Location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Organizer
Platinum Level Support
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International Viral Hepatitis Elimination Meeting (IVHEM) 2017

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Day 1 - Friday, 17 November 2017

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Setting the stage - Key challenges in elimination
Jordan Feld, MD, MPH
Toronto Centre for Liver Disease, Canada
Session 1: Test and screening strategies -
Chairs
Michael Ninburg
Michael Ninburg
Hepatitis Education Project (HEP)
Maia Butsashvili
Maia Butshashvili, MD, MS, PhD
Health Research Union (HRU)
WHO status report: Global response to the strategic framework
Yvan Hutin
Yvan Hutin, MD, PhD
WHO, Switzerland
Global response to the strategic framework; Technologies perspective (not available)
Francesco Marinucci
Francesco Marinucci, PhD
FIND, Switzerland
Real-life experiences - Egypt
Imam Waked
Imam Waked, MD
National Liver Institute, Shebeen El-Kom, Egypt
Real-life experiences - USA (not available)
Ryerson
A. Blythe Ryerson, PhD MPH
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA
Session 2: Care & cure strategies -
Chair
Jordan Feld
Jordan Feld, MD, MPH
Toronto Centre for Liver Disease, Canada
Manal El-Sayed
Manal El-Sayed, MD
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Global trends in burden of disease
Graham Cooke
Graham Cooke, MD, PhD
Imperial College London, London, UK
How to measure your success; globally and locally
Yvan Hutin
Yvan Hutin, MD, PhD
WHO, Switzerland
Real-life experiences - bottlenecks & hurdles
Jordan Feld, MD, MPH
Toronto Centre for Liver Disease, Canada
Manal Hamdy El-Sayed, MD, PhD
Ain Shams University, Egypt
Netherlands (not available)
Charles Boucher, MD, PhD
Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands
Brazil
Maria Cássia Jacintho Mendes Corre
Maria Cássia Jacintho Mendes Correa, MD
Sao Paulo University-Medical School, Brazil
Australia
Myanmar
Khin Pyone Kyi, MBBS, DBact, MMedSc, PhD, FRCP
Ministry of Health, Myanmar; Ni Ni Diagnostics and Health Care Centre
Denmark
Jeffrey V. Lazarus, PhD, MIH, MA
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain / CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, United States
Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa
Olufunmilayo Lesi, MD, MBA, FWACP, FMCP
World Health Organization, Switzerland
Pakistan
Huma Qureshi, MD
Pakistan Medical Research Council, Karachi, Pakistan
United States of America (not available)
Ryerson
A. Blythe Ryerson, MD, PhD
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA

Day 2 - Saturday, 18 November 2017

Session 3: Prevention & screening strategies -
Chair
Lesi Olufunmilayo
Olufunmilayo Lesi, MD, MBA, FMCP, FWACP
University of Lagos, Nigeria; Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist
Francesco Marinucci
Francesco Marinucci, PhD
FIND, Switzerland
Prevention transmission strategies on treatment - Pediatric population
Manal Hamdy El-Sayed, MD, PhD
Ain Shams University, Egypt
Prevention transmission strategies prior to infection - People who inject drugs
Diana Sylvestre
Diana Sylvestre, MD
O.A.S.I.S. Clinic, Oakland, CA, USA
Prevention transmission strategies prior to infection - Incarceration
Lara Strick
Lara Strick, MD, MS
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Prevention transmission strategies through strengthening the health system
Maia Butsashvili
Maia Butshashvili, MD, MS, PhD
Health Research Union (HRU)
Session 4: Innovative models to finance the health care problem -
Chair
Margaret Hellard
Margaret Hellard, AM, MBBS, FRACP, FAFPHM, PhD
Burnet Institute, Australia
Charles Boucher
Charles Boucher, MD, PhD
Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands
Medicines Patent Pool’s approach to scale up access to HIV and HCV treatment
Esteban Burrone
Esteban Burrone
Medicines Patent Pool, Switzerland
Micro-elimination as a strategy to reach global elimination
Jeffrey V. Lazarus, PhD, MIH, MA
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain / CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, United States
Overview
Welcome

IVHEM 2017 welcomed almost 70 participants from 22 different countries. The Program Committee would like to thank all invited speakers and participants for their valuable contribution to this workshop!

We would also like to thank our sponsors Gilead, Abbvie, and Mylan, for making this event possible and our meeting partners for their support.

Practical Information

Disclaimer
This meeting is intended for educational purposes only and aims to offer participants the opportunity to share information. The Organizing Secretariat of this meeting, Virology Education, cannot accept any liability for the scientific content of the sessions or for any claims which may result from the use of information or publications from this meeting.
Virology Education disclaims all liability for injuries or losses of whatever nature incurred by individuals attending the meeting.
Liability and Insurance
By registering for the meeting participants agree that the organizers do not accept responsibility for medical-, travel- or personal insurance. Participants are advised to take out their own insurance policies.
Committees
Program Committee

The members of the Program Committee (PC) discuss on a frequent basis the scientific program of the workshop, identify interesting topics and candidate speakers and review all submitted abstracts.

Scientific Committee

The members of Scientific Committee advise the Program Committee by providing them with suggestions for speakers and topics. In addition, members of the Scientific Committee participate in reviewing submitted abstracts, and act as an ambassador of the meeting.


Isabelle Andrieux-Meyer Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland

Maia Butsashvili Health Research Union, Tblisi, Georgia

Graham Cooke Imperial College London, London, UK

Emalie Huriaux US National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, Project Inform, San Francisco, CA, USA

Achim Kautz Leberhilfe Projekt gUG, Cologne, Germany

Khin Pyone Kyi Myanmar Liver Foundation, Rangoon, Myanmar

Ying-Ru Lo WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, Manilla, Philippines

Francesco Marinucci FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

Ponsiano Ocama Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Homie Razavi Center for Disease Analysis (CDA) , Louisville, CO, USA

Anya Sarang Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice, Moscow, Russia

Wendy Spearman University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Mark ThurszImperial College London, London, UK

Stefan Zeuzem J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Rosmawati Mohamed University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Evaldo Stanislau Affonso Araújo University of São Paulo Hospital das Clínicas Infectious Diseases Division, São Paulo, Brazil

Jude Byrne Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL), Canberra, Australia

Andrea Cox Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Kenneth Kabagambe The National Organization for People Living with Hepatitis B (NOPLHB), Makere, Uganda

Shiv Kumr Sarin Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Delhi, India

Jeffrey Lazarus CHIP, Copenhagen, Denmark

Liudmyla Maistat Medicines Patent Pool, Geneva, Switzerland

Shruti Mehta Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Jean-Michel Pawlotsky Hôpital Henri Mondor , Paris, France

Tatjana Reic European Liver Patients Association, Brussels, Belgium

Marcelo Silva Austral University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lara Strick Washington Department of Corrections & University of Washington, Tumwater & Seattle, WA, USA

Imam Waked National Liver Institute, Shebeen El-Kom, Egypt

Huma Qureshi Pakistan Medical Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan

Philippa Easterbrook World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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