Dr. Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC, Director, Urban Health Research Initiative, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS – “ Responding to HIV and other challenges in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside“
Learning Objectives
1. To understand the role of medical and public health interventions in reducing the impact of HIV disease among persons who use drugs
2. To understand the limitations and harms of conventional responses to illicit drug use
3. To understand barriers to the scale up of addiction treatment, and how they might be overcome
Facilitators: Dr. Harry Karlinsky (Richmond), Drs. Diane Fredrikson/Stephen Schertzer (VGH/Community), Dr. Maithili Shetty (St. Paul’s), Dr. Arvind Kang (North Shore & Coastal), Dr. Anton Scamvougeras (UBC), Nora Koros (Powell River), Dr. Apu T. Chakraborty (Squamish), Douglas Andrie (Sechelt), Margot Sangster (Whistler)
To view archived grand rounds 1) CCRS – search Regional Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds
https://ccrs.vch.ca/SignIn.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fsecure%2fSignin.aspx and 2) VCH Intranet under the Regional Department of Psychiatry
For more information: Margaret Laird 604-708-5241 or Margaret.Laird@vch.ca
*The Regional Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada*
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