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Podcast: What is nPEP?
NECA in the Know Podcast Series, Episode 84
Aired: Thursday, January 12, 2023
Listen to veteran NCCC consultants, Tony Sayegh and Erin Lutes, as they speak with host Marianna Breytman on the Northeast/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center (NECA AETC) NECA in the Know podcast series about non-occupational Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (nPEP).
This discussion covers:
• What exactly is nPEP?
• Why is it so important?
• And why should you, as a provider, know about it?
Speakers:
Tony Sayegh, MS, RN, FNP-C, AAHIVS, provides expert consultation and education to NCCC callers on HIV prevention, management and treatment. Tony is a University of California, San Francisco trained family nurse practitioner since 2012, maintaining an AAHIVM credential as an HIV Specialist since 2016. His career has included work in PrEP research, provision, and protocol development and implementation in addition to HIV/AIDS clinical management.
Erin Lutes, MS, RN, PHN, CNS, is a Clinical Nurse Specialist with a specialty in public health and HIV. She has been an NCCC HIV prevention consultant since 2014 with a special interest in stigma and harm reduction. She graduated from UCSF’s Master’s Entry Program in Nursing and Master of Science program and worked for the San Francisco Department of Public Health at Southeast Health Center’s HIV team and as a nurse in San Francisco-based primary care and urgent care clinics. Erin has also worked as Adjunct Faculty at Samuel Merritt University and as a clinical instructor for UCSF’s School of Nursing. She is a US Schweitzer Fellow for Life.
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