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Department Head
Mobile Hepatitis Team
Perpignan, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Andre -Jean Remy - Head, Hepatology and Gastroenterology Unit and Social Medicine Unit, one of 41 french viral hepatitis expert unit
Perpignan Hospital, France
Andre-Jean Remy is a specialist in viral hepatitis in drug users, prisoners and at-risk populations and, he is in charge of a prison medical unit, and primary care access unit. Dr Remy is Medical Coordinator of a MobileHepatitis Team which works with at-risk populations to provide point-of-care testing, mobile FibroScan liver stiffness, advanced on-site consultations, social screening and diagnosis,
access to treatment, educational workshops and staff training.
Social medicine include jailhouse medical unit, retention center medical and primary care access unit
Medical coordinator of Mobil Hepatitis Team, new concept of HCV/HBV patients care: 1. Screening by Dried Blood Spot (DBS) HIV HBV HCV 2. Mobile Fibroscan* in different sites 3. Social screening and diagnosis (EPICES score) 4. Outreach center with specific health care workers 5 days/7 5. Free blood tests in primary care if no social insurance 6. Advanced on-site specialist consultation 7. Access to obligatory pre-treatment commissions. 8. Individual psycho-educative sessions 9. Collective educative workshops 10. Staff training 11. Drug users prevention 12. Peer to peer program 13.Low cost specific patients mobile phones 14.Specific one day hospitalizations before and after antiviral treatment 15. Green thread: outside DBS and FIBROSCAN* in specific converted truck.
President of ANGH (french national association of none universitary gastroenterologists)
Administrator of SNGFE (French National Society of Gastroenteroly)
Vice president of FPRH (National French association of hepatitis networks and viral hepatitis expert unit)
Clinical research about viral hepatitis in drug users and inmates since 1999
University of Reims and University of Montpellier
Specialist of viral hepatitis in drug users, inmates and precarious populations
More than 200 scientific articles;1120 articles or communications in congress in 2012 to 2022
Monday, October 31, 2022
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
7:30 AM – 8:45 AM