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Advanced Issues in Hepatitis C Medicine

This advanced course will be held for medical practitioners, nurses and allied health on Sunday 19 October 2008 from 9am-5pm at Rydges Southbank (2-min walk from conference venue).  Please register online via the ASHM website at www.ashm.org.au/courses .  Registrations close on 4 October 2008 but please register early as places are limited. For further details please contact Sonja Hill on +61 2 8204 0724 or email education@ashm.org.au.  

Hepatitis Australia Workshop

Hepatitis Australia will run a workshop in conjunction with the Viral Hepatitis Conference.  This will be run on Tuesday 21 October 2008 as a breakfast session.  The breakfast session will cover the preliminary results of Hepatitis Australia's National Hepatitis C Needs Assessment Project, which is being undertaken by Dr Jacqui Richmond.  A light breakfast will be served from 7.00am with the workshop to begin at 7.30am.  Registration is free and open to conference registrants only. 

Think Tank Meeting 

The Conference will again host a Think Tank on Access to Hepatitis C Treatment. The first Think Tank was held adjacent to the 2006 Viral Hepatitis Conference. This year the Think Tank sessions will be incorporated into the program. These will start with a presentation from an invited speaker reviewing access issues for priority populations and will look very closely at what initiatives are increasing access in local settings, nationally and from overseas. These presentations will be followed by proffered papers exploring the implications of these approaches for the health care workforce. Each session will have an allocated panel discussion. The final session on Tuesday 21 October will then look more closely at service delivery and workforce issues, including the emergence of community and nursing initiatives. The proceedings of these sessions will be published following the conference. All abstracts submitted to the Conference will be considered for inclusion in the Think Tank sessions.