The Hep B Project

{ December 2012 }
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A PA M S A
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5AM was far too early for Justin Biebers Baby to be blaring from my radio. But my alarm clock didnt care. I slowly crawled out of bed and got my things together. Poster? Check. Business Cards? Check. Long socks to brave the Boston chill? Check. I was to catch a morning flight to Boston for the 2012 Hepatitis B Conference on November 10 hosted by the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA).

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The conference had speakers who work in different ways all for the same cause, eliminating hepatitis B. The conference began with an epidemiologist from the 175-225 words.Public Health Department This story can fit Massachusetts purchasing a mailing list from a company. who discussed The Public Health Response to Hepatitis B Virus InfecThe purpose of a newsletter is to provide specialized If you explore the Publisher catalog, you will find many tion, followed by enthusiastic physicians who talked about Chronic information to a targeted audience. Newsletters can be a publications that match the style of your newsletter. Hepatitis B: the Present Challenges and How We Can Make a Difference, Hepatitis B-What Students Should Know Before They great way to market your product or service, and also Go Out to Educate the Public, and Hepatitis B: What Difference Can Students Make?. These talks were inspiring you can spend Next, establish how much time and money and informacreate way and and build your organizations identity tive in their own credibilitytaught us some important lessons that I want to take back home and implement into help project. For on your newsletter. These factors will our determine how example, Iamong peers, members, employees, or vendors. realized that it is important to ensure that in positive patient follow-up, that our team does not justand its length. Its frequently you publish the newsletter stop at the individual, and that they also takethe audience askthetheir family members have been screened. that you publish your newsletter at least First, determine the time to of if newsletter. This could recommended Next, the conference was followed by poster presentationswho might benefit from bothinformation it and medical students. its considered a consistent source of from various students, the undergraduates be anyone quarterly so that
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model of hepatitis compile a mailing list from business reply cards, You can B outreach during the conferences poster session, a time at which both undergraduates and medical students, present on biological research or community work. This year, David, Jonny, and I chose to create a poster based on our mapping customer information sheets, business cards collected at project, the progress weve made, and the applications consider The Hep B Projects development and growth. We included trade shows, or membership lists. You might it has for three maps, one that showed medical uninsurance rates across the different zip codes of Alameda County, one that showed the percentage of Asian and Pacific Islanders by zip code, and the last that showed percentage of positive patients by region based on our screening data. Using this data we were able to identify areas that needed our services most, so that we can better target our outreach and partnership efforts. To our surprise, our poster ended up winning second place! This story can fit 75-125 words. Examples of possible headlines include Product Wins Having the opportunity to learn from and to share stories with other conference attendees about a common cause and Industry Award, New Product Can Save You Time!, being ableYour headline isBoston sights and culture,newsletter and a truly unique and fun experience. to explore the an important part of the made this event Membership Drive Exceeds Goals, and New Office Opens should be considered carefully. Near You. In a few words, it should accurately represent the contents of the story and draw readers into the story. Develop the headline before you write the story. This way, the headline will help you keep the story focused.

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VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT
(a look into the lives of our hard-working volunteers)
Recently, the newsletter team had the opportunity to sit down with and interview a member of the project who has been helpful with Vietnamese patient outreach. Truc Dinh is currently a junior majoring in MCB with an emphasis on infectious diseases and minoring in Public Policy. She is a San Francisco native.

How did you get involved in the Hep B Project? Why did you get involved? I actually had a class with Adele and she referred the club to me. She told me about it when I was a freshman, but I didn't apply until the following fall sophomore year. I applied over the summer and joined the project Fall 2011. I also heard about the project through my internship with Fiona Ma as she often would discuss community organizations in Alameda This story can fit 175-225 words. purchasing a mailing list from a company. County, and would come across the HepB Project.
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Whats your favorite thing about the project? Any most memorable experiences? customer information sheets, business cards collected at One of the best memories I had was when I went to my first flu clinic. I kind of had to go because I am Vietnamese. I don't get to speak Vietnamese a lot, so it was a really nice experience to connect to people culturally. There were a lot of old people and they were all very thankful for us and kept saying how good of a thing we This story can fit Examples of possible headlines were doing for75-125community. It actually means something if older include Product Wins the words. people tell you Industry Award, New Product and it's nice is anfeel appreciated. That's the best part meeting theCan Save You Time!, to important part of the newsletter and people that Your headline Membership Drive Exceeds Goals, and New Office Opens you're helping. Putting a face as opposed to dealing with only policy and legislashould be considered carefully. Near You. tion, which was what I experienced when I was interning. I love it. In a few words, it should accurately represent the contents
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What are your post-grad plans? Possibly some type of pre-health profession just so I can get experience because I feel like a lot of the policy people don't actually know what they're laws actually do. We need more people in actual health professions to be in the law-making process. Definitely not med school. Are you involved with anything else on campus? Hepatitis B is the main community thing I do. I also do a research study in the department of Pharmacy in UCSF, in which I do a lot of patient surveys and clinical research. Last summer, I did a medical reconciliation, which is a really big public health issue. This past summer, we studied medication adherence, which is like a survey study. What was a big project you took on as a Hep B project volunteer? One of the biggest things I've had to do was work withmailing list from a company. at the This story can fit 175-225 words. purchasing a all of the patients Vietnamese Center and get them all screened. First, we went to the Vietnamese The purpose of a newsletter is to provide specialized If you explore the Publisher catalog, you will find many Center and I was one of the only Vietnamese volunteers. I basically spoke with all information to a targeted audience. Newsletters can be a publications that match the style of your newsletter. 40 of the patients that we screened that day. I coordinated with Huizhen and Jagreat way to market your product or service, and also Next, establish how much time and money you to son and they gave me the resources, the script and all the patient information can spend create credibility and build your organizations identity call with results from the screenings. I workedon your Volunteer Health Interpreters how with newsletter. These factors will help determine among peers, members, employees, or vendors. frequently everything translated into ViOrganization (VHIO) to coordinate volunteers to getyou publish the newsletter and its length. Its First, determine the audience of contact all Thisthe patients. We contacted all the patients the newsletter. of could recommended that you publish your newsletter at least etnamese and basically be anyone who might benefit from the information it quarterly so that its considered a consistent source of and recorded all the results and it was a success that we finished it all.
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COMMITTEE SPOTLIGHT
(a look into the lives of committee leaders) Clinic Coordinators [Part 1]
This week, we take a look into the life of one of the Clinic Coordinators of the Project, Huizhen Zh.

How did you first become involved with the project? I first joined the Hep B Project in Spring Semester of 2010 because of Caitlin, who was my freshman year floor mate. She told me that the project really needed Cantonese speakers, and she really encouraged me to apply to be a volunteer. Since I wasn't in any health clubs back then, I decided I'll join the Hep B Project to see what it's all about. What appealed to you about the clinic coordinator position? Why not another LC position?
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If someone were to apply for the clinic coordinator position, what qualities/qualifications would you want them to have?
First and foremost, the utmost important obligation of being a Clinic Coordinator is to give the best patient care possible. This means that you have to ensure the smooth operations of the two weekly clinics, as well as follow-up with patients. Last year, Myo and Eric enhanced the clinic system and improved the follow-up care for positive patients. This year, Jason and I managed to follow-up with all 90+ of our positive patients with the aid of the Positive Patient Committee, created a follow-up system for future positive patients and updated the CAIR system. It is up to you to determine what area of patient-care you want to focus on during your term as Clinic Coordinator, but remember that whatever you choose, you must have the patients care in mind at all times. Second thing you need to know is that Clinic Coordinator must be organize and be able to multi-task. For example, during the recent several clinics, Jason and I have to working on updating the patient database, updating CAIR system as well as performing the regular duties that we already have at clinic. As the Clinic Coordinator, you are expected to juggle with different projects at the same time because a lot of the works that you do can only be done during clinic hours. Therefore, organization and the ability to multi-task are very important because you cant lose track of what you are working on. Third thing you need to know is that Clinic Coordinator must be committed to attending clinics The purpose of a newsletter is to provide specialized If you explore the Publisher catalog, you will find many both Wednesday and Saturday. Once you sign up for this position, you must make the time commitinformation to a targeted audience. Newsletters can be a publications that match the style of your newsletter. ment to bothto market your and Saturday Clinics,also Wednesday product or service, and including summer time as well. It is important that you great way
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The last thing you need to be aware of before you apply to Clinic Coordinator is that you need to keep up an active communication with not just your partner, but also with the many other coordinators and volunteers within the project. For instance, you will have to talk with the InternalAffairs Coordinator to make sure you have enough volunteers to come to clinic, you have to work with the Finance Coordinator to get more clinical supplies, and you have to report to the Director to provide updates and discuss issues arising from clinic. In addition, since majority of the volunteers completely their volunteering hours at clinics, you will have an opportunity to interact with many different volunteers. Invite feedbacks from these volunteers and figure out what can be improved. New volunteers sometimes have a fresh perspective at things that you fail to see, and experienced volunteers may help you find things that you may have overlooked. Ultimately, it is the open and honest communication with one other that allows all of us to achieve the Hep B vision.

How do you think your experience in the Hep B Project will impact you in grad school? During one Saturday Clinic, I met a Chinese patient who came for Hepatitis B blood screening. During our conversation, she confessed that she had never stepped foot out of Chinatown before that day because of the language barrier. In Cantonese, she explained that she came to our clinic because her husband had died of hepatitis B-induced liver cancer. The virus showed no immediate symptoms and went undiagnosed, progressing to irreversible stages. It was from until her husband This story can fit 175-225 words. purchasing a mailing list not a company. was The purpose of a newsletter is to provide specialized with advanced stage liver cancer. He passed many hospitalized that the doctors diagnosed him If you explore the Publisher catalog, you will find away within one aweek, leaving her alone to can be a thepublications thatthis patient, many Chinese family. Like match the style of your newsletter. information to targeted audience. Newsletters support great way to unaware product or service, and due immigrants aremarket your of preventative carealso to challenges caused by language money youIf this barriers. can spend Next, establish how much time and create husband and build your organizations identity earlier on, he could have gotten screened and credibility had learned about Hepatitis B womens on your newsletter. These factors will help determine how among peers, members, employees, or vendors. treated before it was too late. Through this experience, frequently you publish the newsletter and its length. Its I realize the importance of transforming First, determine the audience of intonewsletter. This could the accessible knowledge that is boththat you publish your newsletter at least recommended relevant and helpful to patechnical medical information be anyone who might benefit quarterly so tients daily lives and health. from the information it Hep B Project has that its considered a consistent source of Working with the motivated me to serve as the link contains, for example, employees or people interested in information. Your customers or employees will look between the medical world and the everypurchasing a product or requesting your service. forward to its arrival. day world. As a pharmacist, I want to emYou can compile a mailing list from business reply cards, power my patients with knowledge about customer information sheets, business cards collected at the medications that they use, as the infortrade shows, or membership lists. You might consider mation can often be cryptic to patients. Through pharmacy school, I hope to use my scientific expertise along with my trilinExamples of possible headlines include Product Wins gualThis story can fit 75-125 words. ability to help patients make the best Industry Award, New Product Can Save You Time!, decisionsheadline is an important part of the newsletter and Your about their health.
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The Hep B Project :

B-ing Social
Ever see a fellow Hep Ber on campus and not sure whether to say hi or not? Youve seen him or her at meetings and briefly introduced yourself during an ice breaker ages ago, but now youre faced with the critical decision. Well thanks to our Social Committee, headed by internal affairs coordinator Jennifer Nam, you know longer have to experience this stress! The Social Committee has made a huge effort in organizing events and socials for our members to bond and get to know each other, and slowly eliminating those awkward encounters. Over twenty people showed up to get their bowl on at local Albany Bowl, and as the pictures can attest, Hep B volunteers definitely know how to have fun. The night capped off with a boba run to Mr. Green Buble and an epic Ninja tournament. The first social set a high standard, but we still had a great turn out for last weeks Kimchi Garden gathering. Over some tasty Korean food and cupcakes, ice breaking story can fit 175-225 down and some interesting facts came out. from a company. are in This sessions went words. purchasing a mailing list More socials planningpurpose of a newsletter ismore Hep Bers can join in the fun! Hope to catalog, youall find many and we hope that to provide specialized see you will The If you explore the Publisher there!information to a targeted audience. Newsletters can be a publications that match the style of your newsletter.
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Boulder Discovery Giving Patients a Fighting Chance

Since its introduction in 1982, the Hepatitis B vaccine has been 95% effective in preventing infection and the chronic consequences of Hepatitis B. With current medicine, even those with chronic hepatitis B can be treated with interferon and antiviral agents to repress viral replication and inflammation. However, that goes to say that once infected there is no way to remove the virus from the body.

A discovery by a University of Colorado Boulder-led research team could provide a new perspective on the treatment of the hepatitis B virus (HPV) and a way to end the cycle of cellular damage. Researchers have known for some time that the virus contains the genetic material for the synthesis of a pathogenThis story can fit 175-225 words. purchasing a mailing list from a company. ic protein, HBx, which promotes the growth of tumors. However, until recently, scientists have been perThe purpose of a newsletter is to provide specialized If you explore the Publisher catalog, you will find many plexed by how the protein functions and exactly what cells HPV targets. Colorado Boulder University Proinformation to a targeted audience. Newsletters can be a publications that match the style of your newsletter. fessor Ding Xue andmarket your product orset out and fill in these missing blanks and were successful in identihis research team service, to also great way to Next, establish how much time and money you can spend fying host create credibility and build your organizations two small proteins, named Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL. Previous to how target cells of HBx in human cells as identity on your newsletter. These factors will help determine among peers, members, employees, or vendors. the study, these cells were known as cell death inhibitors withfrequently you publish the newsletter and its length. Its no profound correlation to the hepatitis B First, determine the audience of the newsletter. This could recommended that you publish your newsletter at least virus infection. Now, scientists are showing how HBx uses a string of amino acids to interact with the Bcl-2 be anyone who might benefit from the information it quarterly so that its considered a consistent source of and Bcl-xLcontains, for example, employees or people interested in triggers viral hepatitis B replication andwill look target cells to set off a spike of calcium which information. Your customers or employees cell purchasing product or were introduced and forward to its arrival. death. When gene amutations requesting your service. when Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL were not as prevalent or weakYou can compile a mailing able to cause a significant ened in liver cells, HBx was not list from business reply cards, increase in calcium and viral replication concustomer information sheets, business cards collected at firming the findings.
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In a similar study, the authors of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used a tiny roundworm known as C. elegans to identify the HBx host targets by inducing cell death with a protein known as CED-9. CED-9 is a homolog to the Bcl-2 protein in humans, meaning that while it comes from a different organism it still expresses similar functions. While the C. elegans are not native hosts for the virus, they are ideal models for HBV studies because around 35 percent of their genes have human homologs and on top of that they are relatively simple animals.

Across the globe, 400 million people are infected with HBV. While there are treatments and antiviral drugs for chronic HBV carriers, there are very few treatments for those in developing countries with no access to such drugs and where infections are occurring. Researchers are hopeful that new clinical and pharmaceutical breakthroughs will arise because of these recent findings, promising to help those infected worldwide.

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