2004 Conference Archive
- Background
- Invited International Speakers
- Conference Program
- Scholarship Recipients
- 2004 Abstracts
- Sponsors & Supporters
Background
The 4th Australasian Hepatitis C Conference was held back to back with the 16th Annual ASHM Conference in Canberra. The conferences were a great success with over 900 delegates attending the two.
The Hepatitis C Conference's scientific program committee included Greg Dore, Michael Beard, Jude Byrne, Levinia Crooks, Ed Gane, Margaret Hellard, Skye Jewell, Stephen Locarnini, Mary O’Brien, Kerry Paterson, Jacqui Richmond and William Sievert.
It featured an opening address by The Hon. Dr Michael Wooldridge, Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on AIDS, Sexual Health and Hepatitis and explored Strategic Directions for this Expanding Epidemic.
Invited International Speakers
Assistant Professor Michael Gale Jr
Michael Gale Jr. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. As an undergraduate student at the University of Washington, he worked as a research assistant in the laboratory of Dr. Lawrence Corey, studying the virus-host interactions of Herpes Simplex virus infection. After receiving his Bachelor of Science Degree in Zoology, Dr. Gale joined the research group of Dr. Edward Clark and studied the viral immunology of HIV and SIV infection at the Washington Regional Primate Research Center in Seattle.
He then joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine where he studied protein kinase signaling, cell cycle control and host-parasite interactions of the protozoal parasite, Trypanosoma brucei. Dr. Gale received his Ph.D. in 1994 and joined the laboratory of Dr. Michael Katze at the University of Washington for post-doctoral training in virology and virus-host interactions of the interferon system.
In 1999 Dr. Gale joined the faculty of UT Southwestern as the Nancy C. and Jeffery A. Marcus Endowed Scholar in Medical Research, where he teaches molecular virology and conducts research focused on understanding how RNA viruses control the host cell antiviral response to infection.
Professor Michael Lai
Professor Michael Lai is a world-renowned RNA virologist. His research interest spans coronavirus (which causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS), hepatitis delta virus and hepatitis C virus. He has made many pioneering contributions to the understanding of replication and pathogenesis of these viruses. He has been on the editorial boards of numerous virological journals, and is a fellow of American Academy of Microbiology and an academician of Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
He currently holds the titles of Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at University of Southern California and the Vice President of Academia Sinica.
Professor Schalm
Solko W. Schalm received his medical degree from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and he subsequently completed specialty training in Internal Medicine at University Hospital, Leiden. From 1974-1975 he was a research fellow at the GI unit at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. In 1976 he returned to the Netherlands (Rotterdam) and became consultant in Internal Medicine at the University Hospital, Rotterdam, before obtaining his current position as Head of Hepatology at the Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam.
His interest is currently expanding to case management by Doctor On-line Consultation. A former board member of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) from 1985-88, He was president of EASL in the year 2000. He is an honorary member of the Dutch Liver Patient Society.
Dr Diana Sylvestre
Diana Sylvestre, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, at San Francisco. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, she received postgraduate medical training at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, NY.
Dr Sylvestre is the Executive Director and Founder of O.A.S.I.S (Organization to Achieve Solutions in Substance-Abuse), a nonprofit clinic providing medical care to patients with addictive diseases, and is a leading U.S. researcher in the field of hepatitis C and addiction.
Conference Program
In brief
A brief outline of the conference program including titles of the sessions can be downloaded below.
Program in brief: HCV04prog_OV.pdf [28kb PDF]
In FULL
Download the complete conference program. This is a three page Excel document and will require a suitable program to open it.
Program in full: HepCProgram.xls [52kb XLS]
Scholarship Recipients
| Joanne Micallef |
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research |
| Lisa Elliott | Sydney Children'sHospital |
| Renee McKay | University of Adelaide |
| Ju-Hui Chang | Infectious Diseases Unit, Alfred Hospital |
| Matthew Rourke | Territory Users Forum & the Network Against Prohibition |
| Shane Gibbs | Territory Users Forum & the Network Against Prohibition |
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