MPOX
RESEARCH
ROUNDTABLE

presented by helpNYC

Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Noon Eastern


Online via Zoom and YouTube
Registration Required

Event Summary

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Noon Eastern 

Online via Zoom and live-streamed on YouTube

helpNYC has been a part of the citywide community engagement effort since last summer to educate the community about Mpox, formerly known as Monkeypox, MPV, or MPX.

To continue community engagement and education the Mpox Research Roundtable to review current data on Mpox in New York City, and hear from helpNYC's Research Partners about the research they're doing on Mpox.

The Mpox Research Roundtable is created for direct service providers, community leaders, social services, and medical professionals to help engage their clients, program participants, and peers in Mpox research and awareness. We also would like to extend the invite to community members as well.

Event Handouts

Handouts

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Presenter Information

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Research Enrollment

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Presenters

Mpox Research Roundtable Presenter Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, MD White House Deputy Coordinator of the National Mpox Response

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, MD

Deputy Coordinator of the White House National Mpox Response
MPOX RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE PRESENTER Dr. Angelica Cifuentes Kottkamp, MD Associate Director for Research and Diversity NYU Langone Vaccine Center Health + Hospitals Bellevue

Dr. Angelica Cifuentes Kottkamp, MD

Associate Director for Research and DiversityNYU Langone Vaccine CenterHealth + Hospitals Bellevue
MPOX RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE Borough President Mark Levine Manhattan Borough President City of New York

Borough President Mark Levine

Manhattan Borough PresidentCity of New York
MPOX RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE PRESENTER Dr. Preeti Pathela, DrPH, MPH Acting Executive Director - STI Program Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene DOHMH

Dr. Preeti Pathela, DrPH, MPH

Acting Executive Director - STI ProgramBureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted InfectionsNYC Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene
Mpox Research Roundtable Presenter Council Member Lynn Shulman Chair, Committee on Health New York City Council

Council Member Lynn Shulman

Chair, Committee on HealthNew York City Council
Mpox Research Roundtable Presenter Dr. Justin Zucker, MD Columbia University Medical Center AIDS Clinical Trial STOMP Study

Dr. Jason Zucker, MD

Columbia University Medical CenterAIDS Clinical Trial GroupSTOMP Study

Event Program

Welcome

Noon

J. RueMel Parkin

Executive Director, helpNYC Corporation

Remarks

President Mark Levine

Manhattan Borough President

Council Member Lynn Shulman

New York City Council Member, District 29

Committee on Health, Chair

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, MD

Deputy Coordinator of the White House National Mpox Response

Mpox Presentation

Preeti Pathela, DrPH, MPH

Acting Executive Director - STI Program

Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections

NYC Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene

Study of Tecovirimat for Human Monkeypox Virus (STOMP)


Dr. Jason Zucker

Columbia University Medical Center

AIDS Clinical Trial Group

Study of Tecovirimat for Human Monkeypox Virus (STOMP)

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 


STOMP is a Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the antiviral tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, for the treatment of human monkeypox infection. Adults with severe monkeypox, severe immunodeficiency, or severe inflammatory skin conditions; individuals taking certain medications that could affect tecovirimat levels; and pregnant people, people who are breastfeeding, and children all will be enrolled in an open-label arm in which all participants receive tecovirimat. Other adult participants—530 total—will be randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio to receive tecovirimat or placebo pills, which participants will take for 14 days. This part of the trial is double-blind, meaning neither participants nor investigators will know who is receiving a placebo or tecovirimat.


Click here to enroll.

New York City Observational Study of Mpox Immunity (NYC OSMI)


Dr. Angelica Cifuentes Kottkamp, MD

Associate Director for Research and Diversity

NYU Langone Vaccine Center

Health + Hospitals Bellevue


New York City Observational Study of Mpox Immunity (NYC OSMI)

NYU Langone Health Vaccine Center


The goal of NYC OSMI is to assess the immune response, tolerance, and safety of the low-dose intradermal (forearm) Mpox vaccine in people who are HIV+ compared to people who are HIV-, and compared to the standard-dose subcutaneous (upper arm) vaccine. The resulting data will fill knowledge gaps, inform public health practices, and address community concerns about the absence of data for low-dose intradermal Mpox vaccinations in people living with HIV.


Click here to enroll.

helpNYC.info Resource Navigator Overview

1:05p

J. RueMel Parkin

Executive Director, helpNYC Corporation

New York City has one of the largest and most y comprehensive public health and social service systems in the world, there are only a few, if any, challenges New Yorkers can’t get help with. However, that system of services and resources is extremely challenging to navigate for even the most resourceful of individuals.


The helpNYC.info Resource Navigator is the first program of its kind to simplify the navigation of low-barrier services and resources in a person-first, system-second approach.


helpNYC actively works to use technology, best practices, language, and other innovative methods to eliminate barriers and stigmas for those in need to access services, resources, and information from our programs.


Even the website is programmed to be accessible on all platforms and bandwidths, especially government-subsidized technology like cell phones and other devices, making our services low-barrier from the first click.


As of February 2023, the program has been used by over 58,000 unique visitors within a 25-mile radius of the geographic center of New York City. The helpNYC.info Resource Navigator sees an average of 1,300 new users a month.

About the Speakers

Mpox Research Roundtable Presenter Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, MD White House Deputy Coordinator of the National Mpox Response

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, MD

Deputy Coordinator of the White House National Mpox Response

Demetre C. Daskalakis is an American physician and gay health activist serving as director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention since 2020. In 2022, the administration of Joe Biden appointed him the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator.


Daskalakis worked at Mount Sinai Hospital in Brooklyn, where at one time he held the position of medical director of ambulatory HIV services. He was also an assistant professor at New York University. His work with the "Men's Sexual Health Project", which he founded in 2006, involved working in sex clubs and bathhouses to test men for sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and direct them to care. Daskalakis joined the New York City Department of Health in 2013.


During a 2012-2013 meningitis outbreak in the city, Daskalakis opened a pop-up clinic as part of a vaccination campaign targeting at-risk groups, such as men who had sex with men, and was credited with halting it.[9] By 2014, he was deputy commissioner for the Division of Disease Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.[10]


Daskalakis was a task force member of Ending the Epidemic, a campaign focused on decreasing HIV transmission rates in New York City. Since joining the city's health department, he has promoted the concept of "status-neutral care", a strategy for HIV treatment and prevention which takes the same approach to initial patient care regardless of the patient's HIV status. The concept was part of the plan for the Ending the Epidemic campaign.


Starting on December 21, 2020, he has served as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention


On August 2, 2022, President Joe Biden appointed him as the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator.


Source: Wikipedia
MPOX RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE PRESENTER Dr. Angelica Cifuentes Kottkamp, MD Associate Director for Research and Diversity NYU Langone Vaccine Center Health + Hospitals Bellevue

Dr. Angelica Cifuentes Kottkamp, MD

Associate Director for Research and Diversity

NYU Langone Vaccine Center

Health + Hospitals Bellevue

Dr. Angélica Cifuentes Kottkamp is a South American doctor who graduated in 2011 from San Martín University, in Bogotá D.C., Colombia. She came to the United States in 2012 to work as a Research Assistant at the Glomerular Center of Columbia University where she oversaw multiple clinical trials on glomerular diseases and kidney transplant. 


She completed her residency in Internal Medicine in BronxCare Health System, an affiliated hospital of Icahn School of Medicine, and in 2016 she joined NY U Grossman School of Medicine where she completed her Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Immunology. 


She joined the Division as Faculty in 2018 and became a key member of the Infectious Diseases team in Bellevue Hospital where she keeps a continuity clinic at the Virology Clinic taking care of patients living with HIV, mostly Hispanics / Latinx. 


Dr. Kottkamp has led basic science research projects on viruses such as Zika and Chikungunya and has been a major educator in the training of future infectious disease specialists both at NYU and internationally in countries like Zambia & Ghana, achieving important recognition as winning the Teacher of The Year award in 2021. 


In 2019 she joined the NYU Langone Vaccine Center and has since led multiple vaccine studies of COVID-19, Shingles, Influenza, Mpox, monoclonal antibodies, immune responses, among others. During the pandemic, she has been invited to multiple public events on vaccine education for the Latinx community next to important figures such Dr. Fauci and Dr. David Chokshi (former NYC Health Commissioner). 


Dr. Kottkamp is a member of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access Committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, she the Associate Director for Research and Diversity of the NYU Langone Vaccine Center and is the Associate Program Director of the Infectious Disease and Immunology Fellowship Training Program at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. 

MPOX RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE Borough President Mark Levine Manhattan Borough President City of New York

Borough President Mark Levine

Manhattan Borough President

City of New York

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine previously served eight years in the New York City Council, representing parts of Upper Manhattan and was a leading voice for tenants’ rights, public health, and equity in schools, transit, parks, and housing. Previously, he taught bilingual middle school math and science in the South Bronx and founded Neighborhood Trust Federal Credit Union, a community development financial institution which has made $25 million in small loans to low-income families and small businesses in Northern Manhattan.

J. RueMel Parkin

Exectuive Diretor and Chair

helpNYC Corporation

Rue has served on the boards and councils of charities and advocacy organizations such as the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, National Youth Pride Network, Outright of Maine, Southern Maine Pride, Folsom Street East, Capital Area AIDS Network, and New York Crystal Meth Anonymous. 


They have also served on advisory committees and were a community advisor for the City of New York: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. They are a New York State Peer Specialist with experience in crisis intervention, peer bridging, overdose intervention, and peer counseling. 


Before their mental health and community organizing in New York City, Rue spent over twenty years as a union stage manager working for companies such as the Macy’s Parade and Entertainment Group, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway Green Alliance, Walt Disney Entertainment, Busch Gardens, and Seaworld Adventure Parks. They also toured with several theatrical, dance, and musical artists on major tours. 


Rue grew up in Maine and now calls The Bronx, New York City home.

MPOX RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE PRESENTER Dr. Preeti Pathela, DrPH, MPH Acting Executive Director - STI Program Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene DOHMH

Dr. Preeti Pathela, DrPH, MPH

Acting Executive Director - STI Program

Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections

NYC Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene


Preeti Pathela is the Executive Director of the STI Program in the Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and STI at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She has overall responsibility for directing, evaluating, and coordinating the activities of the Program, which consists of roughly 70 staff who conduct work in STI program implementation; surveillance and field operations; and epidemiology, research, and evaluation. She serves on the American STD Association’s Board of Directors and as an Associate Editor of the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Preeti received a Doctor of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her Master of Public Health degree from Emory University.

Mpox Research Roundtable Presenter Council Member Lynn Shulman Chair, Committee on Health New York City Council

Council Member Lynn Shulman

Chair, Committee on Health

New York City Council

Lynn Schulman grew up in Forest Hills and is a long-time community and LGBTQ activist. With decades of leadership in health care advocacy and progressive causes, Lynn was elected to the City Council because she has a vision for how to bring about the change we need in our Queens communities. An attorney by training, Lynn has devoted her career to public service and held a broad range of executive positions in government, private industry, and the non-profit arena.


In her community, Lynn served as a Vice-Chair on Community Board 6 for more than 20 years. She is also a former member of the 112th Precinct Community Council and the Board of Directors of the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Lynn served as an appointed member of the Community Education Council for District 28, where she focused on combating school bullying, increasing student access to music and art programs, and enhancing educational opportunities for the youth in our city’s public school system.

Source: New York City Council
Mpox Research Roundtable Presenter Dr. Justin Zucker, MD Columbia University Medical Center AIDS Clinical Trial STOMP Study

Dr. Jason Zucker, MD

Columbia University Medical Center

AIDS Clinical Trial Group

STOMP Study

No biography available at time of publication.