Curing Hepatitis C in Primary Care
GPCME 2019 - Rotorua
Saturday June 22, 2019
Presentation by:
Dr Alex Lampen-Smith
Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist at the Bay of Plenty District Health Board, and Clinical Director of the Hepatitis Foundation of New Zealand.
In this breakfast symposium held at GPCME 2019, Dr Alex Lampen-Smith presented risk factors associated with Hepatitis C (HCV), barriers to identifying the disease and pre-treatment assessment of patients with HCV. She also introduced the funded HCV therapy Maviret® and discussed its use, illustrated by a number of case studies.
The video production for this presentation was funded by Abbvie.