1B: Clinical/ Laboratory
Tracks
Track 2
Friday, November 15, 2019 |
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
Chancellor 2 |
Speaker
Mr Corey Oostendorp
Application Specialist
Speedx
RESISTANCEPLUS MG FLEXIBLE FOR THE GENEXPERT ENABLES NEAR PATIENT TESTING OF MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM AND MACROLIDE RESISTANCE MARKERS.
1:00 PM - 1:15 PMBiography
Corey Oostendorp is SpeeDx's Application Specialist for Australia and New Zealand, his work is focused on both product development and technical support.
Dr Sunita Azariah
Sexual Health Physician
Auckland Regional Sexual Health Service
Low rates of gonorrhoea culture in the era of nucleic acid amplification testing have implications for anti-microbial surveillance.
1:15 PM - 1:30 PMBiography
Sunita Azariah is a sexual health physician at Auckland Regional Sexual Health Service. Her research interests include syphilis, development of clinical guidelines and public health policy and advocacy to reduce incidence and prevalence of sexually transmissible infections in New Zealand
Dr Sally Rose
Senior Research Fellow
University of Otago
CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHOEA REINFECTION: INEQUITABLE OUTCOMES BY GENDER AND ETHNICITY
1:30 PM - 1:45 PMBiography
Sally is a Senior Research Fellow in the Primary Health Care Department, at the University of Otago in Wellington. Her research interest is sexual and reproductive health, with a current focus on the management of bacterial STIs in primary care.
Dr Gillian Holdsworth
Managing Director; Consultant In Public Health Medicine
SH:24
SH:24 The development of an online service and impact on sexual health in London.
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
Dr Gillian Holdsworth, Director SH:24
Gillian is a public health doctor and director of SH:24 – an online sex and reproductive health service developed in partnership with the NHS. Using design-led innovation, SH:24 seeks to promote self-management and improve the sexual health of the local population. Since introduction, SH:24 has doubled access to STI testing and reduced STI rates by 8%.
Dr Massimo Giola
Consultant Physician
Bay of Plenty DHB
Initial experience with the Xpert® CT/NG system in Tauranga
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Dr Massimo Giola obtained his medical degree in 1991 at the University of Pavia (Italy) and specialised in Infectious Diseases in 1996 (Italy). He studied antiretroviral drugs pharmacokinetics during a PhD programme in Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology from 2005 to 2008 at the University of Varese (Italy).
He then moved to NZ in 2009 and worked as a general / ID physician in Invercargill until November 2010, then Tauranga. He was accepted for the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in December 2012 and completed further specialty training in Sexual Health Medicine in Auckland in 2013-2015, obtaining a Fellowship if the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine.
He has been back in Tauranga since 2015 and was appointed Clinical lead of the BOP Sexual health service in February 2019. Since October 2019 he is also the clinical lead of the sexual health service in Lakes DHB. He is also the representative in the Australasian Sexual Health medicine committee of the RACP.
Ms Caroline Bree
Midwife and Board Chair
Positive Women Inc.
Changes to Maternity Guidelines for Women who have HIV
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Caroline is a midwife at Auckland DHB with 23 years’ experience caring for women living with HIV. She is also a Board member of Positive Women Inc. and is the midwifery representative on the HIV National Forum.
Ms Jane Bruning
National Coordinator
Positive Women Inc.
Breastfeeding and mothers who have HIV
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Jane Bruning has been living with HIV for 31 years and has been the National Coordinator of Positive Women Inc. since 2004. Jane has a Graduate Diploma in Not for Profit Management and a Masters in Social Practice. Jane was made an Office of the New Zealand order of Merit in recognition of her work in the HIV sector in the Queens Birthday Honours list in 2017.
Dr Andrew Anglemyer
Senior Research Fellow
University of Otago
Comprehensive sexual Health screening among gay and bisexual men in Aotearoa / New Zealand
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Dr Andrew Anglemyeris an epidemiologiest in infectious diseases and study design methodology (and previously at Naval Postgraduate School and University of California, San Fransico). Since 2009 he has been a member of the World Health Organizations HIV Treatment Guidelines development committee and is the statistics and methods editor for the Chochrane Review Methods Group. Dr Anglemyer has co-authored dozens of public health and clinical peer - reviewed papers with a wide range of topics including HIV Prevention and treatment in high risk population, firearms - related injury , pediatric encephalitis and hyponatremia. He received an MPH in Epidemiology / Biostatistics and a PhD in Epidemiology from University of California , Berkley.