Course

Andrew Reynolds is the Hepatitis C Wellness Manager at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and an independent hepatitis C and harm reduction consultant and is the former Hepatitis C and Harm Reduction Manager for Project Inform. In these roles, he writes health education materials, fact sheets, toolkits and articles on all aspects of hepatitis C awareness, prevention and treatment, and he also works in viral hepatitis and drug user health policy and advocacy. He is the Hepatitis C Editor for Positively Aware, and the author of the magazine’s “Annual Hepatitis C Drug Guide,” and sits on the AASLD/IDSA HCV Guidance Panel. Andrew has over 20 years of HCV, HIV and STD awareness, prevention and treatment experience, delivered in a wide variety of settings from street outreach to clinical settings to jails and prisons. In addition to HCV, Andrew works extensively in drug user health, harm reduction and safe consumption space education and advocacy. He serves on numerous boards of directors, advisory boards and committees, including the Organizing Committee of the “End the Epidemics” campaign for California, a community initiative to eliminate HIV, HCV and STDs in California.

Linda Wang is a Clinical Instructor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai. She received her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and her medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She completed internal medicine residency and chief residency in the Primary Care and Social Medicine Program at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. She is a board-certified internist practicing general internal medicine at Internal Medicine Associates (IMA). Her clinical interests include preventive health, chronic disease management, primary care-based buprenorphine treatment, comprehensive and stigma-free care for individuals with substance use, and resident education.