Looking Beyond Bugs to Consider Drugs: Drug User Health and HIV/HCV Prevention and Treatment
Brianna Norton, DO, MPH
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
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Dr. Norton is an Infectious Diseases physician, researcher, and public health advocate. Dr. Norton spent the last decade at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY treating patients for HIV, Hepatitis C, and opioid use disorder in community settings such as primary care clinics, methadone treatment programs, and syringe exchange programs. She has been the PI and co-investigator on multiple NIH research grants that aimed at increasing access to quality care for people who use drugs, and also founded of one of the first drug user health clinics that was located onsite at a syringe exchange program. She has recently joined the NYS Department of Health as the Deputy Medical Director of the AIDS Institute.
At the completion of this educational activity learners will:
1. Define Harm Reduction Principles
2. Be aware of recent HIV and HCV outbreaks among PWID (people who inject drugs)
3. Articulate how to reduce HIV and HCV infections for people who inject drugs
4. Understand the data for HCV treatment among PWID and HIV/HCV co-infected
Policies and standards of the Medical Society of the State of New York and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education require that speakers and planners for continuing medical education activities disclose any relevant financial relationships they may have with commercial interests whose products, devices, or services may be discussed in the content of a CME activity.
- Dr. James F. Braun (Course Director/Planner) has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
- Dr. Keith M. Sigel (Moderator) has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
- Dr. Brianna Norton (Presenter) has no relevant financial relationships to disclose. Dr. Norton submitted her slides in advance for adequate peer review and supported her presentation and clinical recommendations with the best available evidence from the medical literature.
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