Hepatitis C Virus (HCV): An Overview | January 19, 2023
Date of Presentation: January 19, 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Infectious Disease ECHO Program
Keywords: #hcv #hcv cure #hcv treatment #hep c #hepatitis
In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19 and Mpox topics. Then, Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, ECHO Medical Director, provides an overview of the virology, life cycle, origins and epidemiology of the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), including routes of transmission, and the social determinants that define the HCV epidemic. Finally, Dr Mera discusses the clinical presentation and shares how to diagnose, evaluate and treat patients with hepatitis C in our Indian Health Service, Tribal and Urban Indian primary care clinics.
Recording:
Presented by:
Jorge Mera, MD, FACP | Jonathan Iralu, MD, FACP, FISDA
Dr. Jorge Mera is the Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services (CNHS), the largest tribally operated health care system in the United States. He completed his fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and is Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in Infectious Diseases. During recent years Jorge’s efforts have been dedicated to organizing the Cherokee Nation HCV elimination program, as well as the HIV/HCV ECHO project. He is also the Director of the HIV clinic since 2012 and the Principal Investigator of the End the HIV Epidemic for the CNHS. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine of the Oklahoma State University Health Science Center and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Jonathan Iralu, MD, FACP, FISDA, is the Indian Health Service Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases. He has a special interest in HIV, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted disease care in rural communities. His research has focused on undifferentiated febrile illness in the American Southwest and on rural HIV care delivery. He has worked at Gallup Indian Medical Center since 1994 and is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Date added: January 18, 2023
