ACOG Industry Workshop

How Alaska is Revolutionizing Cervical Cancer Detection with HPV Primary Screening and Dual-Stain Triage

Hear from Bethany Berry, Senior Nurse Midwife and Women’s Health Advocate, and Dr. James Tiesinga, Laboratory Medical Director and Statewide Oversight Pathologist, as they discuss the implementation and patient impact of Primary HPV screening and dual-stain triage in their Alaskan community.

• Gain awareness of existing disparities in cervical cancer incidence and outcomes among Alaska Native communities, and understand how primary screening for human papillomavirus can help address gaps in early detection and prevention.
• Review the key principles of implementation science and ways this framework can work within health organizations to adopt Primary HPV screening and dual-stain triage as an evidence-based strategy to detect HPV infections and cervical precancers to prevent cervical cancer.

• Understand methods and tools used in a Tribal Health Organization to integrate HPV testing into system workflows (clinics, labs, EHR, staff, and consumers).
• Review the successes and challenges experienced while implementing Primary HPV screening, HPV self-collection, and dual-stain triage in a large public health system that serves both urban and rural communities in Alaska.