Dr Ash Qama

My thoughts on bulk billing & greedy doctors. When Medicare started, we did 6 years of medical school, hung up our shingle & became GPs. Medicare subsidised most of the cost of care so we could privately bill those who could afford it to subsidise the gap for those who couldn’t.

Why does #HepB appears to hit Aboriginal Australians especially hard? In this article for @Nature Outlook, Doherty Epidemiologist @AshQama and Medical Researcher Margaret Littlejohn discuss the factors which contribute to this. nature.com/articles/d4158…

I wrote this article for my own catharsis. I never expected it to be peer reviewed. When @NEJM accepted it, I experienced my first panic attack. 1/ @WomenInMedicine @WomeninOnc @AMWADoctors @womeninmedchat @WomeninAcademi1

11- We can ask ourselves what kind of future we want. Because what I see in medicine is a sort of climate-change-like tsunami of reckoning coming. And perhaps it's up to the young people to reshape medicine, but I want to just put the question to everyone.

@kristi_milley @RMIT Not sure if I’m family or the guy with a beer

@phoebeobrien_ Thanks Lady O’Brien!

In true 2020 style, I am attending my graduation from medical school over a Zoom webinar in my pajamas. Wearing a graduation hat though 🎓

We came second! 🥈

Tomorrow night myself, @millamacc, @RebeccaCWebster and @AshQama will be presenting a novel model of cancer survivorship care in the @auscancercomp 2020 University Cancer Case Competition! We call our model the 'Transfer of Trust.' Join us tomorrow at 5:30 rb.gy/egggz9

Very excited to present as a finalist for this year's @auscancercomp as the 'Transfer of Trust' team alongside @RebeccaCWebster @AshQama and @NicholasJBrooke where we present a theoretical model of cancer survivorship! More info here: facebook.com/events/3023399…

And I wonder just how many patients are falling through the cracks because we don’t have time. And how many of them are not feeling seen or heard, and are struggling, feeling alone, because the systems are built efficiently, and doesn’t give us enough time /19

Meyne Wyatt closes #QandA with a monologue from his play, City of Gold.

For the first time @GlobalFund has put #viralhepatitis on the agenda of its Replenishment Conference following an advocacy campaign spearheaded by us and @ICE_HBV bit.ly/2LWjYuL

@BrendanLHarney Can you provide a source for reinfection not being covered under the PBS? I'm unable to find anything stating this

This #worldhepatitisday2019 I am spending a 12 hour layover working on presentation for #AVHEC19 about behaviour following treatment among HIV+ GBM. Can we hope that by #worldhepatitisday2020 treatment of reinfection will be fully funded too? #stopthestigma

Ben Cowie presents on how common it is to be 1st diagnosed w #HBV #HCV within 2 years of #LiverCancer diagnosis (including at time of or even after!) "This is not just a health disparity, this is a serious #HumanRights issue." #AVHEC19 #ScreeningDelay #FindTheMissingMillions

@ICE_HBV @TheDohertyInst Just a note - whilst our data suggests the current vaccine protects against C4, we didn't have access to clinical records, so we might be missing people who were vaccinated but not tested before their HBV dx. We need a specific study looking at the serotype mismatch to be sure!

Ashleigh Qama @TheDohertyInst the current #HepB vaccine is effective to prevent genotype C4 #NoHep #AVHEC19

Karen McCulloch @TheDohertyInst : if Australia keeps going like it is now, it won't meet the global #hepb elimination targets #AVHEC19 #nohep

@jenmcintosh22 Thanks Jen!

Important stuff! Well done @AshQama

Last week, my first (joint) first-author paper on #inhalants was published. You can see my illustrations in all their glory here: doi.org/10.1002/prp2.4… #neuroscience

Super excited to be speaking at #AVHEC19 today about hep B vaccination in the NT. Looking forward to seeing all my other @TheDohertyInst colleagues present too #hbv