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
- Abigail Hunter, Vocal-NY, abigail@vocal-ny.org
- Andrew Heck, NYS Office of Addictions Services and Support, heck@oasas.ny.gov
- Andrew Talal, MD, SUNY Research Foundation, ahtalal@buffalo.edu
- April Bennett, AbbVie, bennett@abbvie.com
- Arpan Dharia, State University of New York (SUNY) , adharia@buffalo.edu
- Arslan Mohamed, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, amohamed1@health.nyc.gov
- Colleen Flanigan, NYSDOH AIDS Institute, flanigan@health.ny.gov
- Dan Shappee, AbbVie, shappee@abbvie.com
- Darlene Meyer, State University of New York (SUNY), dkmeyer@buffalo.edu
- Debra Farron, Gilead Science, farron@gilead.com
- Gia Tyson, MD, MPH, Ochsner Medical Center, gtyson@ochsner.org
- Julia Hunter, MD, MPH, Binghampton General Hospital, hunter@nyuhs.org
- Kathleen Davis, University of Rochester Medical Center, kathleen_davis@urmc.rochester.edu
- Kelly Ramsey, MD, MPH, MA, FACP, NYS Office of Addictions Services and Supports, ramsey@oasas.ny.gov
- Lia Alleyne, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, lalleyne@health.nyc.gov
- Marc Badura, Research Foundation of SUNY, mbadura@buffalo.edu
- Meg Chappell, Empire Liver Foundation, megchappell@empireliverfoundation.org
- Megan Prokorym, NYS Department of Health, prokorym@health.ny.gov
- Narelle Ellendon, NYSDOH AIDS Institute, ellendon@health.ny.gov
- Pia Sen, Viral Hepatitis Community Partner
- Shazia Hussain, NYS Office of Addictions Services and Supports, hussain@oasas.ny.gov
- Stephanie McHugh, NYSDOH AIDS Institute, mchugh@health.ny.gov
- Sue Birch, MBA, BSN, RN, Washington Health Care Authority, birch@hca.wa.gov
Last Updated on July 24, 2023 by HepFree NYC