The Kansas Department of Health and Environment's
Adult Viral Hepatitis Prevention Coordinator
Working with the Kansas City Hepatitis Alliance
Presents A Hepatitis Awareness Month Educational Activity
Please feel free to distribute flyers. Electronic copy attached below.  FREE TO THE PUBLIC
May is Hepatitis Awareness Month
KANSAS CITY HEPATITIS ALLIANCE
Presents the First Annual
Understanding Hepatitis 2008:
A chance to ask your questions
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
| 6:00-6:30 pm | Registration |  |
| 6:30-7:00 pm | Hepatitis Overview: Screening, immunization, treatment | Dr. Brad Freilich, KC Gastroenterology |
| 7:00-7:30 pm | Hepatitis C medication side effect strategies | Karen Luken MS, ARNP
GI Associates |
| 7:30-8:00 pm | Advanced Liver Disease and Transplantation | Dr. Richard Gilroy, KU Medical Center |
| 8:00-8:45 pm | Question and Answer Session | |
Reike Auditorium
University of Kansas Medical Center
3901 Rainbow Blvd
Kansas City, KS 66160
(Corner of 39th and Rainbow)
For more information call 913-754-6077
Infectious Hepatitis Risk Factors: receiving blood products before 1990, intravenous drug use, intranasal cocaine use, receiving a tattoo, being born to hepatitis infected mother, sexual contact with multiple partners.
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