Stanford Health Care | Hepatitis B In Asian Americans: What You Can Do to Lower Your Risk @StanfordHospital | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
Presented by The Center for Asian Health Research and Education in partnership with Stanford Health Library
Chronic hepatitis B is a vaccine-preventable and treatable chronic disease of the liver and the leading cause of liver cancer worldwide as a result of infection with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). In the United States, 1 in 12 Asian Americans is living with chronic hepatitis B, but over half of them are not aware they have been infected. Samuel So, MD, talks about hepatitis B, how it is transmitted, prevention, screening, and treatment. He also shares his work on changing public health policies related to hepatitis B and C and the new CDC recommendations to screen all adults in the United States for hepatitis B.
Presenter:
Samuel So, MD
-Lui Hac Minh Professor and Professor of Surgery at the Stanford School of Medicine.
-Founder of the Multidisciplinary Liver Cancer Program at the Stanford Cancer Center.
-Founder and Executive Director of the Asian Liver Center at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. So is recognized worldwide for his expertise in chronic hepatitis B and primary liver cancer prevention, research, treatment and health policy. He served as a consultant for the FDA and was a member and co-chair of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health’s Hepatitis B Expert Panel. He was also a member of the Board of Population Health and Public Health Practices of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and a committee member of the 2010 IOM report on “Hepatitis and Liver Cancer: a national strategy for the prevention and control of hepatitis B and C”, and the 2016 National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report on “Eliminating the Public Health Problem of Hepatitis B and C in the United States. He also serves as a special adviser on viral hepatitis for the World Health Organization Western Pacific regional office. In 2010, he received the CDC and ATSDR Honor Award for mobilizing people and resources in ways that have changed global public health policies related to hepatitis B, and was recognized in 2014 by the White House for global and national leadership in the prevention and control of viral hepatitis.
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Presented by The Center for Asian Health Research and Education in partnership with Stanford Health Library
Chronic hepatitis B is a vaccine-preventable and treatable chronic disease of the liver and the leading cause of liver cancer worldwide as a result of infection with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). In the United States, 1 in 12 Asian Americans is living with chronic hepatitis B, but over half of them are not aware they have been infected. Samuel So, MD, talks about hepatitis B, how it is transmitted, prevention, screening, and treatment. He also shares his work on changing public health policies related to hepatitis B and C and the new CDC recommendations to screen all adults in the United States for hepatitis B.
Presenter:
Samuel So, MD
-Lui Hac Minh Professor and Professor of Surgery at the Stanford School of Medicine.
-Founder of the Multidisciplinary Liver Cancer Program at the Stanford Cancer Center.
-Founder and Executive Director of the Asian Liver Center at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. So is recognized worldwide for his expertise in chronic hepatitis B and primary liver cancer prevention, research, treatment and health policy. He served as a consultant for the FDA and was a member and co-chair of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health’s Hepatitis B Expert Panel. He was also a member of the Board of Population Health and Public Health Practices of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and a committee member of the 2010 IOM report on “Hepatitis and Liver Cancer: a national strategy for the prevention and control of hepatitis B and C”, and the 2016 National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report on “Eliminating the Public Health Problem of Hepatitis B and C in the United States. He also serves as a special adviser on viral hepatitis for the World Health Organization Western Pacific regional office. In 2010, he received the CDC and ATSDR Honor Award for mobilizing people and resources in ways that have changed global public health policies related to hepatitis B, and was recognized in 2014 by the White House for global and national leadership in the prevention and control of viral hepatitis.
The librarians at Stanford Health Library are eager to help you find trustworthy information to answer your health-related questions. Services are free and open to all. Get in touch: https://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/research-services.html
Take 5 minutes for yourself. Check out the free mindfulness and meditation resources from Stanford Health Library: https://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/books-resources/mindfulness-meditation.html
