Every ACTHIV® educational activity is designed to help clinicians and care team members translate evolving evidence into better HIV prevention and care through practical, evidence-based, interprofessional education.
Learn from faculty actively caring for people living with HIV.
Amelia Goff, MSN, FNP is a Nurse Practitioner and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University whose clinical work focuses on addiction medicine, harm reduction, and improving access to evidence-based care for people with substance use disorders.
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Amelia Goff, MSN, FNP, is a Nurse Practitioner and Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, in the Section of Addiction Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. Her interests include improving healthcare systems to increase access to evidence-based addiction care, including integration of harm reduction education and overdose prevention services. Before her role at OHSU, she worked in the Center for Infectious Disease at Boston Medical Center (BMC), primarily in HIV prevention care and working with patients with substance use disorders living with HIV or at risk for HIV.
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Dr. Yang is an infectious diseases and addiction medicine physician at the University of Pennsylvania whose clinical and academic work focuses on integrating HIV, infectious diseases, and addiction care for people with complex medical and substance use disorders.
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Wei-Teng Yang, MD, MPH, AAHIVS, FASAM, FACP, finished medical training in the Yale health system, infectious diseases fellowship training in University of Washington in Seattle, and addiction medicine fellowship training in Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon. He was a general internist who had a HIV primary care patient panel for four years before subspecialty training. His clinical and academic interests are in the integration of infectious diseases and addiction care, and implementation of care models. He has extensive experiences working with marginalized populations and views addiction as the root cause of many infectious diseases. In his role of the Director of Infectious Diseases – Addiction Medicine Integration in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Yang sees inpatient consultations with the infectious diseases and addiction medicine teams and maintains an outpatient practice where he sees patients with concurrent infections and addiction. He is also involved in multidisciplinary work in infective endocarditis and xylazine associated wounds within the Penn health system.
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American Academy of CME, Inc., designates this educational activity for 1.0 ANCC contact hours (1.0 pharmacotherapeutic contact hours).
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American Academy of CME, Inc. has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until October 10, 2026. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
According to the disclosure policy of the Academy, all faculty, planning committee members, editors, managers and other individuals who are in a position to control content are required to disclose any relationships with any ineligible companies. The existence of these relationships is not viewed as implying bias or decreasing the value of the activity. Clinical content has been reviewed for fair balance and scientific objectivity, and all of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
Jonathan Colasanti, MD; Courtney Fletcher, PharmD; Jose Gutierrez, PhD, FNP-BC; Margaret Hoffman-Terry, MD, FACP, AAHIVS; John JD Juchniewicz, MCIS, CHCP, FACEHP; H. Nina Kim, MD, MS; Natalie Kirkwood, RN, BSN, JD; Daiquiri Y. Robinson, Med, Matthew Young: No relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Christopher Evans, MD: Grant/Research Support: ViiV Healthcare
William R. Short, MD, MPH: Advisory Board/Consultant – ViiV Healthcare, Gilead Sciences; Grant/Research Support – Gilead Sciences
Sarah Smith, MHS, PA-C, AAHIVS: Advisory Board/Consultant: ViiV Healthcare, Gilead Sciences, Merck, Janssen*; Speaker’s Bureau: ViiV Healthcare, Gilead Sciences, Merck, Janssen*
*Relationship has ended
This activity does not include information about off-label uses of approved agents and/or investigational agents.
The opinions expressed in this accredited continuing education activity are those of the faculty, and do not represent those of the Academy/ACTHIV® Institute. This educational activity is intended as a supplement to existing knowledge, published information, and practice guidelines. Learners should appraise the information presented critically, and draw conclusions only after careful consideration of all available scientific information.
Implicit Bias: Implicit bias refers to unconscious attitudes and stereotypes that influence our thoughts, judgements, decisions, and actions without our awareness. Everyone is susceptible to implicit bias, even clinicians. In healthcare, implicit biases can have a significant impact on the quality of care an individual receives. These biases can be both favorable and unfavorable, and are activated involuntarily without an individual’s awareness or intentional control. Studies have indicated that healthcare providers’ incorrect perceptions can impact providers’ communications and clinical decision-making contributing to disparities in clinical outcomes. Addressing implicit biases in healthcare is critical to improving health outcomes and promoting health equity for all patients. Patient-centered care can reduce the impact of implicit bias, by treating each patient as a unique individual who may or may not hold beliefs associated with their backgrounds and circumstances. In addition, recognizing implicit bias in one’s own practice using techniques such as self-reflection and mindful clinical decision-making can ensure more equitable and effective care for all patients.
Over the past several decades, cognitive science research has demonstrated human behavior, beliefs and attitudes are shaped by automatic and unconscious cognitive processes. The healthcare profession is devoting greater attention to how these automatic and unconscious processes impact care including:
(1) preferential treatment toward or against specific patient populations causing healthcare inequities,
(2) influence patient-provider communications leading to misunderstandings and mistrust, and
(3) impact access to healthcare and affect treatment decisions resulting in misdiagnosis, delays in treatment and specialty referrals and poor pain management. Considering one might have unconscious biases and exploring them may be uncomfortable because the very idea that they exist may conflict with how clinicians perceive themselves. It is only by becoming aware of one’s unconscious biases that members of the healthcare team can take steps to mitigate them to ensure all their patients receive quality healthcare. For more information on strategies to reduce implicit bias, visit: https://www.ihi.org/library/blog/how-reduce-implicit-bias
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