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Annual Conference 2015

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Conference Presentations

An epidemiological analysis of men who have sex with men (MSM) who are prescribed HIV post exposure prophylaxis implications for wider pre-exposure prophylaxis policy

     Holly Mitchell
     Public Health England

Is point of care testing unsafe in the city

    Suzanna Currie
    Manchester

HIV incidence among people who attend sexual health clinics in England in 2012 estimates using a biomarker for recent infection

    Gwenda Hughes
    Public Health England

Understanding continuing high HIV incidence sexual behavioural trends among MSM in London

    Adamma Aghaizu
    Public Health England

Measuring the impact of socio-economic deprivation on rates of sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnoses among black Caribbeans in England

    Martina Furegato
    Public Health England

Depression and sexual behaviour among men who have sex with men in the UK

    Ada Miltz
    University College, London

The sexual health and well-being of men who have sex with men (MSM) evidence from Britain's National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal)

    Catherine Mercer
    University College, London

Beyond medical management the value of public health control measures in response to a high risk MSM sexually transmitted infection cluster

    Heather Anderson
    Bart's Health NHS Trust, London

MSM report high use of club drugs which is associated with high risk sexual behaviour

    Thomas Kurka
    Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton

Chemsex and the city - sexualised substance use in gay bisexual and other men who have sex with men

    Ming Lee
    St Georges Hospital, London

Associations between repeat attendances, sexually transmitted infections and child sexual exploitation in under 16 year olds attending genitourinary medicine clinics

    Christopher Ward
    Manchester

IRIS ADViSE- Assessing for domestic violence in sexual health environments - a pilot study

    Neha Pathak
    Bristol

Attitudes towards HPV vaccination for boys among sexual health clinicians

    Eleanor Draegor
    Lewisham & Greenwich, London

IGRA testing for latent tuberculosis in commercial sex workers

    Nadia Khatib
    Birmingham

Access to GUM clinics in the UK – a worsening picture

    Tim Prescott
    Southampton

When's best to text Optimum timing of SMS appointment reminders

    Caroline Williams
    Derby

Use of a novel queue management software program to improve patient satisfaction at a large urban GUM clinic

    Anatole Menon-Johansson
    St Thomas' Hospital

Can express treatment reduce onward transmission

    Ruth Byrne
    Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London

On-line STI testing services- improving access, efficiency and user experience

    Michael Brady
    Kings College Hospital, London

Securing excellence in chlamydia screening outcomes on a shrinking budget

    John Saunders
   Public Health England

Performance of the BD MAXTM CT-GC-TV assay for detection of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and trichomonas

    Barbara Van Der Pol
    University of Alabama

Por A pseudogene deletion amongst Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from the Gonococcal Resistance to Antimicrobials Surveillance Programme GRASP

    Sarah Alexander
    Public Health England

Confirming GC NAAT results what does the data show

    Helen Fifer
    Public Health England

Use of ceftriaxone and doxycycline when treating gonorrhoea is it prescribed appropriately

    John Were
    Public Health England

Gonorrhoea test-of-cure by post maintains return rate

    Nneka Nwokolo
    Chelsea & Westminster, London

High rates of macrolide resistance in mycoplasma genitalium

    Sarah Alexander
    Public Health England

Treatment of Mycoplasma genitalium with azithromycin 1 g is less efficacious and associated with induction of macrolide resistance compared to a 5 day regimen

    Patrick Horner
    Bristol

TV in General Practice - is there more out there than we think

    Jane Nicholls
    Bristol

Menses - to test or not to test

    Sarah Schoeman
    Leeds

Asymptomatic neurosyphilis is unlikely in HIV infected patients after treatment for early syphilis with benzathine penicillin G

    Andrew Tomkins
    Manchester

Aerobic vaginitis-prevalence, management and outcomes in a large integrated sexual health clinic

    Mark Mason
    Glasgow

Asymptomatic lymphogranuloma venereum in known HIV positive MSM is it more common than we think

    Daniel Ward
    University of Birmingham

What do men who have sex with men (MSM) taking post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV following sexual exposure report about their recent sexual risk-taking behaviour

    Joanna Moore
    Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton

Demographic associations with gonorrhoea infections in Brighton

    Lauren Amor
    Brighton & Sussex Medical School

Significant benefit of a targeted HIV testing module on medical students’ knowledge and confidence

    Mickey Chong
    University College, London

The 2013-14 European Collaborative clinical group -ECCG report on the European management of the partner notification

    Sabah Ahmed
    University of Southampton

Factors contributing to repeat PEPSE in MSM

    Harriet Martin
    Brighton & Sussex Medical School

 

Prize Winners 2015

Commended Posters:

  1. ‘Find Your Mate’! An interactive game to support the teaching of sexual history taking to medical students.
    • Kate Horn, Jo Fitzgerald, Ben Tometzki
    • Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK, Glasgow University Medical School, Glasgow, UK
  2. Service evaluation of care needs of young people aged under 25 living with HIV: are they consistent?
    • Siew Yan Teo, Jennifer Murira, Rachel Notman, Amy Evans
    • Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds, UK, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Leeds, UK
  3. Experiences of men who have sex with men (MSM) when engaging in the partner notification process three months following a HIV diagnosis.
    • Jonathan Roberts, Eileen Nixon, Nicky Perry, Nigel Sheriff, Daniel Richardson
    • UK, Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS trust, Brighton, UK, University of Brighton, Brighton
  4. Uptake and acceptance of combined HIV POCT & STI screening for MSM in community settings during National HIV Testing Week
    • Kevin Turner, Billy Clarke, Cecilia Priestley, Sara Scofield, Cordelia Chapman
    • Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Weymouth, UK, The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Trust, Bournemouth, UK
  5. Evaluation of interfering substances common to swab and urine specimen using the BD MAX™ CT/GC and CT/GC/TV assays, a new automated molecular assay.
    • Keith Thornton, Amy Hoover, Lakeisha Galloway, Craig Zeman, Danielle Koffenberger
    • UK, Becton Dickinson, Sparks Maryland
  6. Patient stories: what can we learn from listening to healthcare workers with HIV
    • Tracey Buckingham, Larissa Mulka, Daniel Richardson
    • Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UK

Commended Clinical Cases:

  1. Case series: managing desquamative inflammatory vaginitis in trans-men
    • Kate Nambiar, Deborah Williams, Tamara Woodroffe, Alison Parnell, Daniel Richardson
    • Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UK
  2. Gonococcal tenosynovitis in two HIV-infected heterosexual males: delayed diagnoses following negative urine NAAT testing
    • Jonathan Shaw, Peter Flegg, John Sweeney
    • Blackpool Sexual Health Services, Blackpool, UK

Commended Orals:

  1. TV in primary care - is there more out there than we think?
    • Jane Nicholls, Paddy Horner, Katy Turner, John Macleod, Paul North, Ralph Ferguson, Margaret May, Peter Muir
    • UK, Bristol Sexual Health Centre, Bristol, UK, Public Health England, Bristol Laboratory, Bristol, UK, Department of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol
  2. Understanding continuing high HIV incidence: sexual behavioural trends among MSM in London, 2000-2013
    • Adamma Aghaizu, Anthony Nardone, Andrew Copas, Danielle Mercey, Sonali Wayal, Vicky Parsons, Graham Hart, Richard Gilson, Anne Johnson
    • UK, Public Health England, London, UK, University College London, London

Maggie Godley Prize

    Experience of the tender process and integration of sexual health services: staff survey
    Cara Saxon
    UK, Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester

Undergraduate Prizes

  1. Access to GUM clinics in the UK - A worsening picture.
    • Tim Prescott, Vanessa Hayden, Elizabeth Foley.
    • University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  2. Asymptomatic Lymphogranuloma venereum in known HIVpositive MSM; Is it more common than we think?
    • Daniel Ward1, Meg Boothby, Penny Goold, Emma Hathorn
    • University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Whittall Street Clinic, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
 

 

Annual Conference 2015