Webinar Summary:
While hepatitis C is a source of morbidity and mortality all over the world, its effects can be seen disproportionately in the correctional setting. Join Commander Katrina Klang, National Lead for the Federal Bureau of Prisons Hepatitis Pharmacy Consultants, and Lieutenant Commander Alex Brorby, Chief Pharmacist at Federal Correctional Complex, Florence, as they illustrate best practices for identifying, treating, and ultimately eliminating hepatitis C. The practices they share can be adapted to suit any correctional healthcare setting.
This webinar is part of the National Institute of Corrections Clinical Pearls series. The series explores how to integrate clinical pharmacists into primary care. Session participants will learn how to identify best practices for carceral team medicine and clinical pearls in disease states affecting adults in custody.
Webinar Learning Objectives:
During this 60-minute webinar, participants will:
- Describe national and global hepatitis C elimination goals and how these can be applied to the correctional environment.
- Incorporate cascade of care to optimize local screening and treatment practices.
- Formulate a hepatitis C treatment process which addresses corrections-specific concerns for successful elimination.
Series Take Aways:
During this webinar series, participants will:
- Define the continuum of opportunities for pharmacist integration in clinical practice.
- Analyze different correctional systems to determine where pharmacists can be included to develop more efficient operations within correctional facilities, reducing costs, improving decision-making processes, enhancing safety, and optimizing resource allocation.
- Evaluate the current strategies of disease management within the carceral setting and analyze novel approaches to improve patient care, decrease costs, and optimize resource allocation.
- Envision how implementing novel strategies for the management of complex disease processes can enhance the operation of a correctional institution through technology and a paradigm change, optimizing screening and treatment practices.
- Formulate strategies to use various healthcare disciplines that encourage a collaborative, team approach.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Any employee of a state, federal, local, or tribal correctional jurisdiction with an interest in correctional healthcare.
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Content Contact
CAPT Chad Garrett, Health Program Manager, Prisons division, National Institute of Corrections
cagarrett@bop.gov
Webinar Technical Contact
Scott Richards, Correctional Program Specialist, Prisons Division, National Institute of Corrections
s1richards@bop.gov
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Educator Bios
Lieutenant Commander Brorby
Lieutenant Brorby began his BOP career in March 2020 following seven years as an acute care clinical pharmacist in a community hospital. He has served at FCI Greenville, FCC Tucson, and is currently the Chief Pharmacist at FCC Florence. His primary clinical interests and areas of expertise include antimicrobial stewardship and hepatitis C.
In his free time, he enjoys exploring the blue skies and mountain highs of sunny Colorado with his wife and three children.
Commander Katrina Klang
Commander Katrina Klang has been detailed to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for over 15 years, advancing through staff and Chief pharmacist roles to her current position as a Regional Chief Pharmacist. Her main collateral duty is the national program coordinator for the Hepatitis Clinical Pharmacy Consultant Program since 2017, and she was formerly a regional consultant within the program since its inception in 2011. This program ensures clinically appropriate and fiscally responsible selection of hepatitis B and C treatment regimens via the non-formulary request process from all FBOP sites, and serving as subject matter experts to the field.
