Program

• Sun, May 2
• Mon, May 3
• Tue, May 4
• Wed, May 5

Monday, May 3, 2021

• 10:30 17:30

  North American Viral Hepatitis Elimination Summit

• 10:30 11:00

  VISIT THE VIRTUAL Exhibition

• 11:00 12:15

  Plenary Panel on Elimination

  How Disparities Affect the Viral Hepatitis Elimination Agenda
  Moderator: John Ward
  
  11:00 - 11:20 | Achieving Health Equity Through Hepatitis Elimination:  Overcoming Ethnic / Racial Disparities | Julius Wilder
  
  11:20 - 11:40 | Disparities Highlighted by the Opioid Epidemic | 
  
  11:40 - 12:00 | COVID and Other Syndemics – How Disparities have been Exacerbated | Judith Feinberg
  
  12:00 - 12:15 | Panel Discussion/Q&A

• 12:15 13:00

  Oral Presentations

  Panel 1

• 12:15 12:25

  Welcome from CAHN President

  Donna Zukowski

• 12:25 13:00

  CAHN Session

  PSC/PBC
  Moderator: Sarah De Coutere
  
  A Case Based Approach to PBC and PSC | Magnus McLeod

• 13:00 13:30

  Break | Virtual Exhibit Booths Visit

• 13:30 14:20

  CAHN Session

  Fatty Liver
  Moderator: Sarah De Coutere
  
  Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Management of NALFD and MAFLD | Giada Sebastiani

• 13:30 14:10

  Concurrent Sessions

  Structural Racism – Impact on Burden and Equity to Care
  Moderator: Alexandra King
  
  13:30 - 13:45 | Structural Racism Affecting Viral Hepatitis Care: The US | Ani Kardashian
  
  13:45 - 14:00 | Structural Racism Affecting Viral Hepatitis Care: Indigenous Challenges | 
  
  14:00 - 14:10 | Panel Discussion
  
  Elimination of Viral Hepatitis in Children
  Moderator: Mia Biondi
  
  13:30 - 13:45 | HBV Birth-Dose Vaccination | Carla Coffin
  
  13:45 - 14:00 | Case for Screening and Treatment for HCV in Pregnancy
  | Catherine Chappell
  
  14:00 - 14:10 | Panel Discussion

• 14:10 14:50

  Concurrent Sessions

  Challenges Facing Newcomers / Immigrants / Migrants / Refugees – HBV (& HCV)
  Moderator: Melisa Dickie
  
  14:10 - 14:25 | Challenges Facing Newcomers / Immigrants / Migrants / Refugees: The Problem | Christina Greenaway
  
  14:25 - 14:40 | Overcoming Viral Hepatitis Challenges Facing Newcomers / Migrants / Refugees of Asian Ancestry: 2006-Present | Moon Chen
  
  14:40 - 14:50 | Panel Discussion
  
  Seizing Opportunities: Prevention of Late Diagnosis
  Moderator: Anna Lok
  
  14:10 - 14:25 | Strategies to Minimize the Consequences of Late Diagnosis: HBV | Mindie Nguyen
  
  14:25 - 14:40 | Strategies to Minimize the Consequences of Late Diagnosis: HCV | Jordan Feld
  
  14:40 - 14:50 | Panel Discussion

• 14:20 15:15

  CAHN Session

  Nursing Strategies to Reach the 2030 Elimination Goal
  Moderator: Dennaye Fuchs
  
  14:20 - 14:45 | Finding Opportunities Amid a Global Pandemic: Cool Aid Community Health Centre's Nurse-led HCV Micro-elimination Program | Karen Lundgren
  
  14:45 - 15:15 | Working Towards Elimination by Understanding Province to Province Variability in the HCV Cascade of Care | Mia Biondi

• 14:50 15:30

  Lived Experience Panel

• 15:30 16:10

  Concurrent Sessions

  Viral Hepatitis & PWID: Gateway to better care – HCV
  This session was co-developed with AbbVie and was planned to achieve scientific integrity, objectivity and balance.
  Moderator: Jason Grebely
  
  15:30 - 15:45 | HCV as a Gateway to Better Care for PWID | Chris Fraser
  
  15:45 - 16:00 | Learnings from HERO Study: How to go from pilot to standard of care? | Alain Litwin
  
  16:00 - 16:10 | Discussion
  
  Progress Toward an HCV Vaccine
  Moderator: Michael Houghton
  
  15:30 - 16:10 | The First HCV Vaccine Trial: What did we learn? | Andrea Cox
  
  15:45 - 16:00 | Without Chimps, Do We Need CHIM (Controlled Human Infection Models)? | Jake Liang
  
  16:00 - 16:10 | Discussion

• 16:15 17:00

  Poster Tours

  Poster Tour 1
  
  Poster Tour 2

• 16:15 16:45

  CAHN Session

  The Great Nursing Debate
  Moderator: Sarah De Coutere
  
  16:15 - 16:30 | Title TBD | Jac Atkinson
  
  16:30 - 16:45 | Title TBD | Carmen Cabral

• 17:00 17:30

  VISIT THE VIRTUAL Exhibition