Telemedicine Workgroup Meeting Highlights | 5-20-21

NY Hep C Telemedicine Workgroup – Meeting Notes

Thursday May 20, 2021 (10 – 11 AM) via Webinar

In attendance at this meeting: See below notes

Workgroup Chair: Andrew Talal, MD, University at Buffalo, ahtalal@buffalo.edu

Use of Telemedicine for Hepatitis C Elimination in Washington State

Sue Birch, MBA, BSN, RN, Director at Washington Health Care Authority – sue.birch@hca.wa.gov

• See presentation here

Hepatitis C Elimination in Louisiana

Gia Tyson, MD, MPH, Transplant Hepatologist, Ochsner Medical Center & Clinical Specialist at Louisiana Department of Health – gtyson@ochsner.org

• See presentation here

Workgroup Update

The NY Hep C Telemedicine Workgroup will pause for the summer. Stay tuned in the fall for when we reconvene.

Upcoming Events

• Call for Abstracts for the Northeast Telehealth Resource Center’s 2021 Telehealth Launchpad: Refueling for Sustainability Event. September 23-24, 2021.
• Save the date! 2021 Annual New York State Hepatitis C and Drug User Health Conference: Antiracist Health Care Approaches for People who Use Drugs and/or living with HCV: Time for a New Paradigm. September 14-15, 2021

Telemedicine Resources

• Hep Free NYC Telehealth Resources
• Hep C_Telemedicine Implementation Guide for Substance Use Treatment Programs 2020 
• NYS DOH Provider Directory
• NYS Telemedicine Training Portal

Attendance

1. Abigail Hunter, Vocal-NY, abigail@vocal-ny.org
2. Andrew Heck, NYS Office of Addictions Services and Support, heck@oasas.ny.gov
3. Andrew Talal, MD, SUNY Research Foundation, ahtalal@buffalo.edu
4. April Bennett, AbbVie, bennett@abbvie.com
5. Arpan Dharia, State University of New York (SUNY) , adharia@buffalo.edu
6. Arslan Mohamed, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, amohamed1@health.nyc.gov
7. Colleen Flanigan, NYSDOH AIDS Institute, flanigan@health.ny.gov
8. Dan Shappee, AbbVie, shappee@abbvie.com
9. Darlene Meyer, State University of New York (SUNY), dkmeyer@buffalo.edu
10. Debra Farron, Gilead Science, farron@gilead.com
11. Gia Tyson, MD, MPH, Ochsner Medical Center, gtyson@ochsner.org
12. Julia Hunter, MD, MPH, Binghampton General Hospital, hunter@nyuhs.org
13. Kathleen Davis, University of Rochester Medical Center, kathleen_davis@urmc.rochester.edu
14. Kelly Ramsey, MD, MPH, MA, FACP, NYS Office of Addictions Services and Supports, ramsey@oasas.ny.gov
15. Lia Alleyne, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, lalleyne@health.nyc.gov
16. Marc Badura, Research Foundation of SUNY, mbadura@buffalo.edu
17. Meg Chappell, Empire Liver Foundation, megchappell@empireliverfoundation.org
18. Megan Prokorym, NYS Department of Health, prokorym@health.ny.gov
19. Narelle Ellendon, NYSDOH AIDS Institute, ellendon@health.ny.gov
20. Pia Sen, Viral Hepatitis Community Partner
21. Shazia Hussain, NYS Office of Addictions Services and Supports, hussain@oasas.ny.gov
22. Stephanie McHugh, NYSDOH AIDS Institute, mchugh@health.ny.gov
23. Sue Birch, MBA, BSN, RN, Washington Health Care Authority, birch@hca.wa.gov