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Hepatitis B (HBV): The Basics | April 21, 2022

Date of Presentation: April 21, 2022

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Infectious Disease  

Keywords: #hbv  #hepatitis  #id  #liver  #serology  #transmission  #vaccination  #virus  

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19 topics. Then, Dr. Karla Thornton, Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, presents on Hepatitis B Virus (HBV). In addition to describing the modes of transmission for HBV and baseline HBV serologies, Dr. Thornton, reviews current medications for HBV treatment, and how to identify who should be offered treatment and vaccination.

 

Recording:

Presented by:

Dr. Karla Thornton, MD, MPH | Dr. Jonathan Iralu, MD, FACP, FISDA

Dr. Karla Thornton, MD, MPH is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico and currently serves as a Senior Associate Director of Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes). Her clinical expertise is in the treatment of viral hepatitis and she oversees all of the Viral Hepatitis Programs run out of the ECHO Institute including the Community, Corrections and Indian Country HCV TeleECHO programs. Through these programs, she trains primary care providers and their teams how to comprehensively care for patients with chronic HCV. In addition, she started the New Mexico Peer Education Project: Prisoner Health is Community Health in 2009, which trains New Mexico state prisoners to be peer educators and experts in HCV, other infectious diseases and addiction. She currently serves as the co-chair of the World Health Organization’s Guidelines Development Group for the treatment of persons with hepatitis C virus infection.

Dr. Jonathan Iralu, MD, FACP, FISDA, is the Indian Health Service Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases. He has a special interest in HIV, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted disease care in rural communities. His research has focused on undifferentiated febrile illness in the American Southwest and on rural HIV care delivery. He has worked at Gallup Indian Medical Center since 1994 and is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Date added: April 18, 2022