Project ECHO
Hep Free Hawaiʻi continues to collaborate with the Hawai’i Health & Harm Reduction Center (HHHRC), Hawai’i Learning Groups, and the Hawaiʻi Department of Health to implement a harm-reduction based ECHO® program in Hawai’i. Together, we will provide regular case-based and web-based learning opportunities with experts for primary care providers and other members of the healthcare team on viral hepatitis and related health conditions.
Read more on local ECHO hepatitis program successes.
Hawaiʻi ECHO - Hepatitis C (2023)
In 2023, a second Hawaiʻi Hepatitis C ECHO Program was launched.
This free CME/CPE tele-learning program engaged more than 65 unique providers to effectively screen, manage, and treat hepatitis C through didactic topics from experts combined with weekly case presentations.The 12-session series ran weekly from August 28 to November 20, 2023. Download the summary of provider improvement.
This ECHO series was sponsored by the Hawaiʻi Department of Health in partnership with Hawaiʻi Learning Groups, Hawaiʻi Health & Harm Reduction Center, and Hep Free Hawaiʻi.
More info is available at https://www.hawaiilearning.org.
Hawaiʻi ECHO - Hepatitis B (2022)
In 2022, the inaugural Hawaiʻi Hepatitis B ECHO Program was launched.
The free CME/CPE tele-learning program enhanced capacity for more than 80 unique providers to effectively screen, manage, and treat hepatitis B through didactic topics from experts combined with weekly case presentations. The 16-session series ran weekly from August 22 to December 12, 2022.
This ECHO series was sponsored by the Hawaiʻi Department of Health in partnership with Hep Free Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi Health & Harm Reduction Center, and Hawaiʻi Learning Groups.
More info is available at https://www.hawaiilearning.org.
Hawaiʻi ECHO - Hepatitis C (2021)
In 2021, Hawai’i Health & Harm Reduction Center was awarded a grant to implement a harm-reduction based ECHO® program on Hepatitis C in Hawai’i. In collaboration with Hawai’i Learning Groups and Hep Free Hawai’i, the Harm Reduction ECHO: Hepatitis and Liver Health series ran from January 15 to April 30, 2021. The series provided regular case-based and web-based learning opportunities from experts to increase skills, confidence, and capacity among primary care providers to evaluate common liver conditions and to treat hepatitis C.
For more info, go to Hawai’i Learning Groups.
We are grateful for the contributions of the following clinicians and wish to recognize them for their robust participation in the Hepatitis C ECHO series. Each participant earned a Certificate of Completion for the sixteen-week, twenty-four hour, case-based collaborative learning program. All those listed have given permission to share their names. We hope for their continued success in the conscientious care of their patients!
Jeanelle Ahuna (Waikiki Health)
Melissa Bumgardner (West Hawaii)
Lindsey Crandall (Waikiki Health)
Glenn Faust (Bay Clinic)
Marinette Jose (Kalihi Palama)
Mish Kuklok (Kalihi Palama)
Hiromi Saito (Waikiki Health)
Michael Sylva (West Hawaii)
Nathan Tan (Kokua Kalihi Valley)
Lindsey Torres (Waikiki Health)
Christina Wang (Hawai’i Health & Harm Reduction Center)
Thomas Weiner (Bay Clinic)
Amy Wolcott (Kalihi Palama)
We also want to give special thanks to our core hub team, Drs. Naoky Tsai, Marina Roytman and Dominic Chow, without whom this program would not have been possible.
