Hepatitis C Intervention Symposium | Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, OH US
March 18, 2026

This symposium will showcase good practice interventions and models of care, highlighting key research, challenges and learnings in a collaborative environment, with the aim of supporting participants to develop or enhance their own HCV models of care.

Target Audience

It is intended for anyone working with people who use drugs, interested in implementing or scaling up interventions for HCV in their service setting, including doctors, nurses, frontline workers, peer workers, pharmacists, and policymakers from a variety of settings.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this symposia, you will be able to:

  1. Identify areas for enhancement or scale up in your own HCV service delivery
  2. Understand how a variety of interventions work
  3. Identify suitable interventions to enhance HCV service delivery
  4. Describe how interventions can be implemented in your service setting
  5. Analyze possible barriers to implementing interventions and how to overcome them

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Competencies this activity addresses: 
Apply quality improvement
Employ evidence-based practice
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Practice-based learning and improvement
Roles/responsibilities
Systems-based practice
Teams and teamwork
Values/ethics for interprofessional practice
Work in interdisciplinary teams
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 4.25 Attendance
Registration opens: 
03/02/2026
Claim credit by: 
04/29/2026
Event starts: 
03/18/2026 - 9:30am EDT
Event ends: 
03/18/2026 - 3:00pm EDT
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Agenda-Hepatitis C Intervention Symposium, March 18, 2026 in Cleveland, Ohio
        Time        SessionFormat and TopicsSpeakers
9:30 am        Welcome and Introductions

Presentation

  • Welcome and housekeeping
  • Overview of program and objectives

Lindsey Hiebert-Suwondo
Deputy Director, The Task Force for Global Health, Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination

9:45 am

Session 1: Hepatitis C - Introduction to interventions that enhance the HCV care cascade

Interactive presentation

  • Epidemiology of hepatitis C
  • Testing and treatment options for hepatitis C

Adriana T Whelan, ND, FNP, AAHIVS
Medical Director of HIV and Harm Reduction Primary Care Provider, The Centers

10:10 am

Interactive presentation

  • Interventions may include: Dried Blood Spot (DBS) Testing, Point-of-Care RNA Testing, Point-of-Care Antibody Testing, Care Navigation, Peer Support

Melissa Jenkins
Infectious Diseases Physician, MetroHealth Medical Center | Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University

10:55 amBREAK - MORNING TEA
11:20 amSession 2: Round Robin
Interactive discussions and practical demonstrations

Expert-led small group discussions

  • Roundtable set-up with 5 x stations
  • Participants break into small groups that rotate through each station (~15 minutes at each station)
  • Sharing of practical, evidence-based strategies to implement or scaling up interventions to enhance testing, linkage to care and treatment for hepatitis C
  • Challenges and enablers in different settings-lessons learnt from real-world experience
  • Includes practical demonstrations

Station 1: Electronic Medical Record Auditing
Erika Harrington, Clinical Pharmacist, Cleveland Clinic

Station 2: Integrated HCV Care in Syringe Service Programs (SSPs)
Christina Jackson BSN, RN, WCC, Director of Nursing, Care Alliance

Station 3: Team-based Models of Care for Hepatitis C
Adriana T Whelan, ND, FNP, AAHIVS

Station 4: Integrated HIV and Hepatitis C Care
Melissa Jenkins

Station 5: Integrated HCV Care in Drug Treatment Programs
Clayton A. Ruley, MSS, MLSP, LSW, Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Harm Reduction, Community Liver Alliance

12:30 pmBREAK - LUNCH
1:30 pmSession 3:
Models of Care and Practical Support

Film screening and presentation

  • Film screening of one of INHSU's Connecting with Care short films
  • Hepatitis C models of care: what they are and how they work.
  • Policy drivers: how funding, regulation, and workforce rules shape access to testing and treatment.
  • Scaling up: aligning policy and practice to expand sustainable HCV care.

Christina Jackson, BSN, RN, WCC
Director of Nursing, Care Alliance

1:50 pmSession 3 continued:
Practical Support

Expert-led setting-specific small group discussions

  • Localized group discussion and workshop activity to provide practical support:
    • Implementation science in practice: applying DVIR and RE-AIM to scale HCV care in community settings.
    • From barriers to strategy: diagnosing context and designing practical scale-up approaches.
    • Action planning: developing a 6-month roadmap with clear partners, priorities, and metrics
  • Key takeaways/reflections - report back

All presenters / facilitators

2:50 pmWrap-up and Close:
Where to from here?

Presentation

  • Local resources, programs and training opportunities for ongoing HCV support
  • Next steps, participant evaluations, workshop close

Lindsey Hiebert-Suwondo
Deputy Director, The Task Force for Global Health, Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination

 

 

Tinkham Veale University Center (TVUC)
11038 Bellflower Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44106
United States

Available Credit

  • 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 4.25 Attendance
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