141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

3136.0
Bloodborne and Sexually Transmitted Infections (Infectious Disease Epidemiology)

Monday, November 4, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral
This session will provide attendees with the impact of screening vs. not screening for chlymidia, understand the benefits of disease registry matching and the benefits of patient navigators on hepatitis care.
Session Objectives: Evaluate the impact of screening vs. not-screening for chlamydia during recruit training on PID within 12 months of training. Evaluate the benefit of conducting registry matching as a way to identify infectious disease syndemics Describe the role of culturally-targeted patient navigators in facilitating access to hepatitis care for at-risk African persons
Moderator:
Catherine L. Troisi, MS, PhD

10:30am
Introductory Remarks
10:38am
Risk of pelvic inflammatory disease among u.s. active duty females 12 months following recruit training   
Patricia Rohrbeck, MPH, DrPH, CPH, Leslie Clark, PhD, MS, Brad Cannell, MPH and Christine Moranetz, PhD, FAWHP
     
10:56am
Effects of cognitive flexibility on the relationship between needle sharing and hepatitis c infection   
Eugene Dunne, MA, Joy Scheidell, MPH, Maria Khan, PhD and William Latimer, PhD, MPH
     
11:14am
Matching HIV, TB, viral hepatitis and STD surveillance data: Identification of infectious disease syndemics in New York city   
Ann Drobnik, MPH, Jennifer Fuld, PhD candidate, MA, Jessie Pinchoff, PhD candidate, MPH, Greta Bushnell, MPH candidate, BS and Jay K. Varma, MD
     
11:32am
Novel community-based hepatitis b screening program among African immigrants   
Demetri Blanas, MD MPH, Hari Shankar, 4th year medical student, Saria Izzeldin, MD-MPH Candidate, MSIV, Alice Clomegah, Mulusew Bekele, MPH, Motahar Basam, BA, Scott L. Friedman, MD, Douglas T. Dieterich, MD and Ponni V. Perumalswami, MD
     
11:50am
Concluding Remarks

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Epidemiology

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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