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CATIE 2008 Educational Conference PresentationsExchange: Know. Share. Innovate.There was an exciting and wide spectrum of topical information presented by experts from many fields at the CATIE 2008 Educational Conference. On this page you will find links to visual presentations given by speakers at the conference on Monday, October 6 and Tuesday, October 7. Clicking on the Session Title of the presentation below will bring you directly to the Speaker Biography, a description of the session and the actual PowerPoint presentation.
CATIE would like to thank our Educational Conference sponsors – see sponsors here. Complete CATIE 2008 Annual General Meeting & Educational Conference Schedule Evidence and Community-Based Practice in HIV/AIDS: Emerging Issues from the CATIE Knowledge Exchange ConsultationsThis panel explored the "big issues" related to evidence and community-based practice in HIV/AIDS. The panel discussion set the context and parameters of debate and discussion related to the emerging expectation for community-based organizations to engage in evidence-based practice. The major topics explored were: the historical context of evidence based decision making in health care; evidence, funding and accountability; the politics of evidence; and the forms of evidence. Evidence-based decision making: An historical sketch by Eric MykhalovskiyEvidence-based decision making: An historical sketch Eric MykhalovskiyEric Mykhalovskiy is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, York University. He is a member of the Ontario Working Group on Criminal Law and HIV Exposure and a member of the Steering Committee of AIDS ACTION NOW! He has a long history with CATIE that began in 1990 when he was hired as its first staff person. Eric began doing research on evidence-based decision making in health care in the late 1990s and has published on the topic in a number of academic journals. Eric’s current research on HIV is supported by a SSHRC grant and a CIHR new investigator award. It addresses a number of related issues including: shifts in the relationship between HIV prevention and treatment, the social and political implications of biomedical prevention, criminalization as a mode of governing HIV transmission, and the relationship between formal discourses of knowledge and “lay” experiences of health. He is co-editing a special issue of Social Theory and Health on HIV which will be published in 2009. Forms of Evidence by Dr. Barry AdamBarry D AdamBarry Adam is University Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor, and Senior Scientist and Director of Prevention Research at the Ontario HIV Treatment Network with a mandate to draw together researchers, policy-makers, and community-based organizations in building province-wide capacity in effective interventions for HIV prevention. Coming to HIV work with an extensive research record on the dynamics of domination and empowerment, LGBT studies, and HIV prevention and issues of living with HIV, his current work is investigating: (a) how social discourses of masculinity, autonomy, adventurism, and romance influence safer-sex decision-making; (b) the development of an attractive and effective HIV prevention and sexual health program for HIV-positive men; (c) creation of an intervention for Latino newcomers to Canada to help address their elevated rate of HIV sero-conversion; and (d) impacts of criminal prosecutions for HIV exposure and transmission on people living with HIV. The Science and Politics of Evaluating Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site by Dr. Mark TyndallThe Science and Politics of Evaluating Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site - Part 1 Mark Tyndall BSc, MD, ScD, FRCPCDr. Mark Tyndall is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and is the head of the Infectious Diseases division at Providence Health Care. He joined the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in 1999 where he is the Program Director for Epidemiology. After graduating with a degree in Kinesiology from the University of Waterloo, he entered McMaster Medical School where he graduated in 1985. He then entered a residency program in Internal Medicine at McMaster, followed by an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Manitoba that included two years of HIV/AIDS research at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Following this he entered the Doctoral Program in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health at Harvard University where he graduated in 1998. His thesis work was on Health and Human Rights under the mentorship of Dr. Jonathan Mann, with fieldwork and data collection based in Kenya and other countries in East Africa. He is currently conducting a number of research projects in Vancouver, including epidemiologic studies of HIV and Hepatitis C transmission, antiretroviral access among injection drug users, health care utilization among marginalized populations, and an HIV vaccine trial. He is an author on over 140 peer-reviewed publications and the principal investigator on a CIHR Community-based research grant addressing sex work in Vancouver. Next Steps for HIV Prevention Programming: Emerging Issues from the CATIE Knowledge Exchange Consultations by San Patten and Eric MykhalovskiyThe AIDS 2008 conference in Mexico City has raised a global call to action on HIV prevention. The national consultations CATIE conducted in 2008 identified an enormous need for prevention programming information. This workshop was a beginning dialogue on how CATIE can work together with community-based organizations to renew our prevention efforts across the country. San PattenSan Patten lives in Sackville, New Brunswick where she teaches Social Policy at Mount Allison University, and works as a consultant specializing in HIV/AIDS policy development, program evaluation and community-based research. She completed a Masters degree in Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, and then worked for AIDS Calgary Awareness Association and for the Alberta Community Council on HIV as a Community-Based Research Technical Assistant for four years. San has extensive experience in policy research, program evaluation, and twinning projects, and has provided technical assistance in India, Mexico, Zambia, Kenya, Moldova, Serbia and Cambodia. Eric MykhalovskiyEric Mykhalovskiy is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, York University. He is a member of the Ontario Working Group on Criminal Law and HIV Exposure and a member of the Steering Committee of AIDS ACTION NOW! He has a long history with CATIE that began in 1990 when he was hired as its first staff person. Eric began doing research on evidence-based decision making in health care in the late 1990s and has published on the topic in a number of academic journals. Eric’s current research on HIV is supported by a SSHRC grant and a CIHR new investigator award. It addresses a number of related issues including: shifts in the relationship between HIV prevention and treatment, the social and political implications of biomedical prevention, criminalization as a mode of governing HIV transmission, and the relationship between formal discourses of knowledge and “lay” experiences of health. He is co-editing a special issue of Social Theory and Health on HIV which will be published in 2009. Acknowledging Community Knowledge: Emerging Issues from the CATIE Knowledge Exchange Consultations by San Patten and Laurel ChallacombeCATIE has been involved in an extensive series of consultations since January 2008 in order to inform its new expanded mandate as the Canadian HIV/AIDS Knowledge Exchange Broker in prevention, care, treatment and support. An overview of the findings was presented followed by discussion of the potential implications. Acknowledging Community Knowledge: Emerging Issues from the CATIE Knowledge Exchange Consultations San PattenSan Patten lives in Sackville, New Brunswick where she teaches Social Policy at Mount Allison University, and works as a consultant specializing in HIV/AIDS policy development, program evaluation and community-based research. She completed a Masters degree in Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, and then worked for AIDS Calgary Awareness Association and for the Alberta Community Council on HIV as a Community-Based Research Technical Assistant for four years. San has extensive experience in policy research, program evaluation, and twinning projects, and has provided technical assistance in India, Mexico, Zambia, Kenya, Moldova, Serbia and Cambodia. Laurel Challacombe, CATIELaurel Challacombe completed a Masters degree in Epidemiology at the University of Toronto in 1999. She has worked in HIV for almost 10 years, first as a Research Coordinator at the HIV Studies Unit at the University of Toronto and then as Manager of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study at the OHTN. She currently works at CATIE as the Manager of Research and Evaluation. Controversies in starting or switching therapy by Dr. Paul A. MacPhersonThis session presented the latest guidelines on when antiretroviral therapy should be started and why these guidelines continue to evolve. A discussion followed on the benefits and potential drawbacks of the new antiretrovirals and when to switch. Controversies in starting or switching therapy Dr. Paul A. MacPhersonDr. MacPherson obtained his PhD in molecular biology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. After working for several years in basic research, he began his clinical training and obtained his MD from McMaster University in 1998. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Toronto followed by subspecialty training in infectious diseases at the University of Ottawa. He is now an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a specialist in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Ottawa Hospital General Campus. He is also a member of the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Ottawa and a Staff Scientist at the Ottawa Health Research Institute. He was among the first to demonstrate reduced IL-7 receptor expression on CD8 T-cells during HIV infection and the effects of this on CD8 T-cell function. Dr MacPherson also works in an advisory capacity locally in Ottawa with the Gay Men’s Wellness Initiative, provincially with the AIDS Bureau, nationally with the Public Health Agency of Canada, and internationally with the Canadian Society for International Health. Counselling clients about disclosure from the legal perspective by Glenn BetteridgeIn certain circumstances people living with HIV in Canada have a duty under the criminal law to disclose their HIV status. This session reviewed those circumstances and the potential consequences in which a person fails to disclose his or her HIV status. Counselling clients about disclosure from the legal perspective Glenn Betteridge, Legal and Policy ConsultantGlenn Betteridge has served as a Senior Policy Analyst with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. Previously, he was a staff lawyer and acting legal director at the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic of Ontario (HALCO), where he represented low-income people living with HIV/AIDS in housing, income maintenance, disability insurance and human rights matters. Glenn’s involvement in AIDS activism began in Montréal as a member of ACT UP in the late 1980s. While at law school, he spent a summer working with Ralf Jürgens, the Legal Network’s co-founder and former executive director, researching HIV/AIDS and prison issues for the final report of Correctional Service Canada’s Expert Committee on AIDS in Prisons (ECAP). Hepatitis C: What you need to know by Jeff Reinhart and Tsitsi WattCATIE staff members highlighted some key messages about hepatitis C and presented a tour of the contents of CATIE's website and toolkit of Hep C prevention and harm reduction resource materials developed in partnership with front-line agencies and the Ontario Hepatitis C Secretariat, and launching in December 2008. Hepatitis C: What you need to know Jeff Reinhart, CATIEJeff Reinhart is an Educator with the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE) and has been working to develop the CATIE Hepatitis C Program for the last year. The program consists of workshops for service providers, targeted print materials for the public, and a central Hep C website of information and resources. Tsitsi Watt, CATIETsitsi Watt works at CATIE as an Educator in the Hep C Program and is developing Hep C materials and the Hep C website. She has worked extensively in East and Southern Africa with children and youth affected by HIV, poverty and conflict. Her background is in Development and Public Administration and she holds a university diploma in Youth In Development Work. HIV Treatment as an Aid to Prevention by Dr. Mark TyndallThe risk of HIV transmission is greatly reduced in those who are on antiretroviral therapy and have a suppressed HIV plasma viral load. The expansion of HIV testing and the initiation of earlier HIV treatment should become a key component of prevention programs. HIV Treatment as an Aid to Prevention - Part 1 Mark Tyndall BSc, MD, ScD, FRCPCDr. Mark Tyndall is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and is the head of the Infectious Diseases division at Providence Health Care. He joined the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in 1999 where he is the Program Director for Epidemiology. After graduating with a degree in Kinesiology from the University of Waterloo, he entered McMaster Medical School where he graduated in 1985. He then entered a residency program in Internal Medicine at McMaster, followed by an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Manitoba that included two years of HIV/AIDS research at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Following this he entered the Doctoral Program in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health at Harvard University where he graduated in 1998. His thesis work was on Health and Human Rights under the mentorship of Dr. Jonathan Mann, with fieldwork and data collection based in Kenya and other countries in East Africa. He is currently conducting a number of research projects in Vancouver, including epidemiologic studies of HIV and Hepatitis C transmission, antiretroviral access among injection drug users, health care utilization among marginalized populations, and an HIV vaccine trial. He is an author on over 140 peer-reviewed publications and the principal investigator on a CIHR Community-based research grant addressing sex work in Vancouver. New CATIE Strategic Plan by Peter Coleridge, CATIE Board of DirectorsPeter Coleridge, Standing for At-Large Director, CATIE Board of DirectorsPeter Coleridge is Vice President, Education and Population Health with BC Mental Health & Addiction Services, an Agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority, in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has over 15 years of experience at the provincial, national and international levels in health literacy, knowledge exchange, educational resource material development and training, population health promotion/prevention, public policy, social marketing, strategic communications, and planning. He has a Masters of Health Science (Health Promotion), a Bachelor of Science (Psychology), and formal training in Broadcasting. Peter has also held senior management positions with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the former Addiction Research Foundation, and the Health Promotion Branch and Substance Abuse Bureau, Ontario Ministry of Health. Peter is currently serving as an At-large Director of the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE) Board of Directors; an Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University; an Associate of the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto; a Special Advisor, Mental Health Promotion, Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health; and, a founding member of the Canadian Executive Council on Addiction. Ontario’s HIV Testing StrategyThe presentation provided an overview of POC (point of care) testing, pre- and post-test counselling when doing POC testing, an overview of the counselling guidelines and a demonstration of a POC test. HIV Testing in Ontario: AIDS Bureau, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care by Frank McGeeHIV Testing in Ontario: AIDS Bureau, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Frank McGee, AIDS Bureau of OntarioFrank McGee is Coordinator of the AIDS Bureau, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care since 1997. AIDS Bureau provides funding for community-based AIDS support and education programs, outreach to injection drug users, research & research infrastructure, monitors anonymous HIV testing program & prenatal HIV testing program, and provides secretariat for OACHA. Please Note: Mr. McGee’s presentation was presented by Ken English from the Ontario AIDS Bureau. POC Testing Experience at Hassle Free Clinic by Heather JamiesonPOC Testing Experience at Hassle Free Clinic Heather Jamieson, Hassle Free ClinicHeather Jamieson has been working at Hassle Free Clinic as a Sexual Health Counsellor/ Educator for the last 5 years. Heather was one of the trainers from Hassle Free who worked with the AIDS Bureau in providing the Anonymous Testing and Point of Care Testing program implementation site training last year. Working with the Worried Well or HIV Anxious: How to Counsel High Anxiety HIV Repeat-testers and Repeat callers by Amy LinEver have a client who is convinced they got HIV from a doorknob? Obsessively browses the internet for HIV symptoms? Repeatedly requests HIV tests? Service providers are often perplexed when clients with no or low risk repeatedly request HIV testing. They often find themselves frustrated and demoralized when they are unable to convince these clients that they are not at risk for HIV. This workshop went beyond basic pre-test, post-test counselling skills, and enabled participants to understand and support clients with high anxiety and irrational fears. Working with the Worried Well or HIV Anxious Amy Lin, Hassle Free ClinicAmy Lin is a counsellor with over 12 years of experience in the field of sexual health. For the past 7 years, she has been employed at Toronto’s Hassle Free Clinic as well as 4 years experience at the Province-wide AIDS and Sexual Health Hotline. |
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