2021 Autumn Meeting
The SSSTDI Autumn meeting has been changed to a virtual platform due to the increasing covid numbers.
| Type | Member | Non-Member | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance | €30 | €50 | ||
26th Nov 2021
SSSTDI Annual General Meeting, Elections and Opening Address
Professor Fiona Lyons, President SSSTDI
Session 1
Chair: Dr Aisling Loy
Consultsant in GU Medicine, St James’s Hospital
Abstract 1: Evaluation of the impact of HIV pre exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on new HIV diagnoses during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A Keane1, S O Regan1, L Quinn1, D Murphy1, Brendan O Kelly1, A Lynam1, F Lyons1, E Devitt1
PLENARY: “The Context and Health Impacts on the Victims of Human Trafficking, Sexually Exploited and Prostituted Women”
Ms Linda Latham
HSE Anti-human trafficking/Womens Health Services, Dublin
Abstract 2: Response to an outbreak of HIV among people who inject drugs in the homeless community
M.McIntyre, T.E. Donnelly, S. McGinley, L.McVeigh, G. Armstrong, S.Semple, S.Quah, M.Hunter, S.Todd
GUM department, RVH, Belfast
Session 2
Chair: Professor Fiona Lyons, Consultant in GU Medicine, St James’s Hospital
PLENARY: “Insights from a Pandemic War Room- What can we apply to other infections”
Professor Susan Hopkins, Healthcare Epidemiologist Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
Public Health England
Comfort Break
Sponsored Satellite Symposium
Real World Experience with 2 Drug Regime from Cork University Hospital
Speaker: Dr Gabriella Rizzo Specialist in Infectious Diseases University College Cork
Exploring Drug interactions and 2-Drug Regimens (2DR) including Real -World Experience from Germany
Speaker: Professor David Back (Emeritus) of Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool
Chair: Ms Ciara Ni Mhurchú Medical Advisor GSK/ViiV Healthcare Ireland
Pharmaceutical Company Update
Topic: Two Drug Regime
Speaker : Jacqueline Jennings (Hospital Representative) GSK/ViiV Healthcare Ireland
Session 3
Chair: Professor Fiona Lyons, Consultant in GU Medicine, St James’s Hospital
Abstract 3 Is COVID-19 a Worthy Competitor of the Title ‘The Great Imitator’?
Salgaonkar.S, Gorman.D, Coleman.T, Sherman.M, Analytis.D, Sharma. J, Rowley.D
Sexual Health Clinic, Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Abstract 4 “2 Nurses, 1 Pandemic & a Baby .........oh and a cyber attack Establishing a PrEP service against the odds”
Debbie Marshall ANP Sexual Health, Cliodhna Milne CNM2 Sexual Health, Dr Niamh Lynn Consultant GU/HIV Medicine, North East GUM Service (Drogheda (OLOL) & Dundalk (LCH) )
PLENARY:
- An update on syphilis epidemiology, Dr Naomi Petty- Saphon, Public Health Specialist
- Great Imitator strikes Again……and Again….. Dr John White
- Questions from the audience
Expert Panel, Dr John White, Dr Shay Keating, Dr Niamh Lynn and Dr Suzy Todd
Finishes 18:55
27th Nov 2021
Session 4
Chair: Dr Say Quah, Consultant in Genito-Urinary Medicine, Belfast
Abstract 5: Examining ABCD: associations between anxiety, behaviour, chemsex & depression in gay, bi and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) living with HIV.
Mr David James Field
(CNS, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital & PhD Candidate, University of Aberdeen), et al
Abstract 6: Queer Expressions: What’s important to Irish Gay Men in their healthcare encounters
Dr John Gilmore
University College Dublin
PLENARY:
Cervical Screening in Ireland – past, present and future
Professor Noirin Russell
Cervical Check Clinical Director
Comfort Break
Sponsored Satellite Symposium
Chemsex
Dr Mark Lawton, Consultant in Sexual Health & HIV and Clinical Lead
Liverpool Centre for Sexual Health
Chair – Dr Aisling Loy, Consultant in Genito-Urinary Medicine, Dublin
Session 5
PLENARY: Strategic Management and Implementation: The Future of PrEP
Strategic Management and Implementation: The Future of PrEP
Dr Cathal O’Broin, Consultant in Infectious Diseases
St Vincents University Hospital, Dublin
Closing remarks and prize giving
Professor Fiona Lyons, Consultant in GU Medicine, St James’s, Hospital, Dublin