2019 Webinar: HCV Treatment in Patients with IDU

Jennifer Price is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Director of the UCSF Viral Hepatitis Center. Dr. Price leads the UCSF HCV Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO), a collaborative model of medical education and care management focused on building capacity for HCV care among primary care providers throughout Northern California. She launched UCSF’s first mobile liver clinical care unit, the DeLIVER Care Van, which aims to improve access to HCV screening and high-quality liver-related health care among medically and geographically marginalized communities. 

Stacey Trooskin, MD PhD, is the Director of Viral Hepatitis Programs at Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.  She received her MPH from Yale University School of Public Health, her medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and her PhD from Rutgers School of Public Health. She completed her internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Trooskin’s primary research interest focuses on health disparities and developing and evaluating innovative models of HCV testing and linkage to care. Dr. Trooskin serves at the Chief Medical Advisor to the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable and is a member of the AASLD/IDSA HCV Guidelines Committee.  She is the Community Co-chair of the Hepatitis C Allies of Philadelphia (HepCAP) and the Principal Investigator of C Change: Philadelphia’s Plan to End Hepatitis C Among People Who Inject Drugs.

Dr. Alain Litwin is Vice Chair of Academics and Research and Professor of Medicine at Prisma Health, University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Greenville, and Clemson University School of Health Research where he leads a Center for Addiction and Prevention Research.  He is board certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine and has been providing medical care to people who use drugs with complex social, psychiatric and medical needs within an integrated primary care and substance use treatment program since 2000. 

As HCV Medical Director at Albert Einstein’s Division of Substance Abuse, he developed a comprehensive on-site HCV treatment program and peer educator program to improve medical care of HCV-infected people who use drugs. As HCV Treatment Network Director at Montefiore Medical Center, he expanded patient-centered models of care at many community health centers serving thousands of HCV-infected people throughout the Bronx.  With funding from NIH, PCORI, CMS, CDC, AHRQ, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New York State Department of Health, New York City Department of Health, and industry, Dr. Litwin’s research has been focused on developing and studying models of addiction and medical care for people who inject drugs (PWID), and on advocating for increasing access to effective care for all PWID.  

Dr. Litwin has worked with government and community organizations on efforts to expand access to HCV treatment and has collaborated on policy statements, clinical guidelines, treatment improvement protocols, task forces, and educational curricula with diverse stakeholders.  Dr. Litwin serves on the Executive Board for the International Network on Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU).