CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

Ensuring Linkage to Care for Patients Diagnosed With Hepatitis Delta Virus

Episode Summary

Listen as 2 experts discuss how to increase linkage to care rates for persons diagnosed with hepatitis D.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Nancy Reau, MD, and Lydia Tang, MBChB, discuss how to increase linkage to care rates for persons with hepatitis D virus, including:

• Updates on currently low rates of linkage to care
• Barriers preventing patients with HBV/HDV 
  coinfection from engaging in care
• Interventions to increase retention in care for patients with HDV

Faculty: 
Nancy Reau, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Section of Hepatology 
Associate Director, Solid Organ Transplantation 
Richard B. Capps Chair of Hepatology
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois

Lydia Tang, MBChB 
Assistant Professor
Department of Infectious Diseases
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Institute of Human Virology
Baltimore, Maryland

Link to full program: 
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Follow along with the slides at: 
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