Perinatal hepatitis C: Testing, Diagnosis, and Treatment During Pregnancy and Childhood
**Instructions to access the course will be provided after you register.**
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this
recorded webinar, participants will be able to:
- discuss perinatal hepatitis C and the
epidemiology of hepatitis C in pregnancy;
- illustrate the importance of identifying newborns and children at risk for HCV;
- describe strategies to identify and screen newborns and children with an increased risk for hepatitis C;
- recognize the clinical presentations of hepatitis C infections in children;
- identify modes of transmission and prevention strategies; and
- discriminate between current recommended therapies for children with chronic HCV infection.
Target
Audience
This presentation is appropriate
for social service staff working with
children youth and families, hospital and clinical-based social workers, in
home visiting nurses and service providers, health educators, and public health
professionals.
Instructors
Anne-Marie Rick, MD MPH
PhD is an Instructor of Pediatrics
and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine and Director of Newborn Research Support Services at the Clinical
and Translational Science Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. Rick works collaboratively with numerous investigators
across the Schools of Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh to
facilitate and implement clinical research in the newborn setting. Her
clinical research is focused on infectious diseases related to maternal-infant
health with active studies related to newborn sepsis, perinatal transmission of
COVID-19 infections, and passive immune protection from maternal immunization
during pregnancy, including influenza.
James Squires, Md, MSc is an associate professor in pediatrics, the director of the pediatric advanced/transplant hepatology fellowship, and associate medical director of Hepatology at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Squires is a co-investigator in the Children Liver Disease Research Network, an NIH-funded consortium working to improve the lives of children with rare cholestatic liver diseases. He is also a member of the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplant, a multifaceted organization focused on improving outcomes for children receiving liver transplantation. He is the Clinical Lead for the Starzl Network for Excellence in Liver Transplantation and has received funding from the Patient-centered Outcomes Research Institute to advance this work.
Technology Requirements
This video is presented through the
Vimeo Internet-based platform. A computer with high-speed internet connection
and the ability to download and run this platform is required.
For more information about this course or for assistance with registration, contact marphtc@pitt.edu.
Creation Date
This training was created
October 20, 2021.