CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

Older Adults: Overcoming HBV Barriers

Episode Summary

Listen to expert faculty and a patient discuss strategies to overcome barriers to HBV care in older adults, including updated HBV screening and vaccination recommendations, understanding of the implications of late HBV diagnosis and/or treatment, and treatment approaches in older adults with HBV.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH; Nancy Reau, MD; and Eric, a person living with chronic hepatitis B, discuss solutions for overcoming barriers to HBV care in older adults, including:

• Awareness of HBV and CHB in older adults
• Updated HBV screening and vaccination recommendations
• Monitoring of renal and bone disease
• Adjustment of monitoring and treatment as a person with HBV ages

Presenters: 
Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH
Vincent Astor Distinguished 
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York

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

Eric, person living with chronic hepatitis B

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Link to program: 
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