Ending the HIV Epidemic: NCCC Clinical Webinar Series

Webinar Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Please join the National Clinician Consultation Center (NCCC) in partnership with the Health Resources and Services HIV/AIDS Bureau (HRSA HAB) and Bureau of Primary Health Care (HRSA BPHC) for this interactive webinar for clinicians.

Health care providers play a critical role responding to HIV outbreaks in people who use drugs. During this webinar, we will describe the NCCC’s approach to supporting clinicians with implementation and optimization of HIV prevention and treatment strategies for persons who use drugs including PrEP, substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, and other harm reduction practices. Based on real cases, we will discuss key interventions for responding to the overlapping HIV and SUD syndemic, and share ideas on overcoming clinical, informational, and cultural challenges in building capacity to respond to this syndemic.

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Identify HIV trends impacting the care of people with SUDs across the U.S.
2. Describe key components of HIV prevention in persons who use drugs, including screening, testing, and pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis medications
3. Discuss OUD treatment and other harm reduction strategies as a means of HIV prevention, engagement, and treatment

Speakers:

Chris Bositis, MD, is Clinical Director for the NCCC, and a family physician experienced in working with communities that have suffered disproportionately from the overlapping infectious disease and opioid syndemic. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine and did his family medicine residency at Brown University/Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island. His clinical practice is currently in Lawrence, MA, where he has played a key role in the development and implementation of novel programs such as a mobile buprenorphine program for individuals experiencing homelessness.

Nicky Mehtani, MD, MPH, is an internist specializing in Addiction Medicine and HIV. She is a consultant with the NCCC and works with San Francisco DPH’s Street Medicine program as Medical Director of the HIV Homeless Outreach & Mobile Engagement (HHOME). She is a graduate of the Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship at UCSF, where she attends on the inpatient Addiction Consult Team at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She completed internal medicine residency and studied public health and medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

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