Minors’ Consent Laws for HIV and STD Services
Minors’ Consent Laws for HIV and STD Services
Provides reference information (not legal advice or interpretations of the laws) for use by practitioners in providing clinical care to minors in each state.
Service: Clinical
Hepatitis C Online Course
Hepatitis C Online Course
Hepatitis C Online is a free educational website from the University of Washington National Hepatitis Training Center. It addresses the diagnosis, monitoring, and management of hepatitis C virus infection. Free CME credit and CNE/CE contact hours are offered. Pharmacology CE for advanced practice nurses is also available for many activities.
Disseminated Gonorrhea Infections Frequently Asked Questions
Disseminated Gonorrhea Infections Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to frequently asked questions regarding the diagnosis, management, and reporting of disseminated gonorrhea infections (DGI).
National STD Curriculum: Gonorrhea
National STD Curriculum: Gonorrhea
The Gonorrhea STD Module is a web-based training course designed to guide in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of gonococcal infections. CNE/CME credit is available.
Sharon Adler, MD, MPH
Clinical Program Faculty
Dr. Sharon Adler, MPH, is clinical faculty at the California Prevention Training Center and is Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), in the department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Adler has worked in the STD field for 20 years including 10 years of work at the California Department of Public Health STD Control Branch. She is board-certified in Preventive Medicine/Public Health and has clinical experience working in community health and public health clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as at the San Francisco STD City Clinic. In her current position, Dr. Adler develops curricula, conducts and coordinates STD trainings.
Lauren Blakley, MA, MLIS
Clinical Program Analyst
Robert Wilder Blue
Navigation Consultant
Robert Wilder Blue is a social worker and public health educator, with expertise in HIV biomedical prevention (PrEP/PEP) program creation, management, and evaluation, and PrEP navigation training and capacity building. He has worked for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco City Clinic, and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
His experience includes work in HIV vaccine and PrEP research, as well as many years of direct client service in sexual health and wellbeing counseling and case management, with special focus on underserved communities.
Chris Hall, MD
Clinical Program Faculty
Chris Hall, MD, was trained in infectious diseases at University of California San Francisco (UCSF), following internal medicine residency at Harvard’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital and medical school at Johns Hopkins. He received a Masters in Management from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.
Formerly, Dr. Hall was Policy Director for San Francisco’s Health Initiatives for Youth, following work at the National Hemophilia Foundation in New York where he was the Director of Clinical Research. He began work in HIV in 1987 at the National AIDS Network, a group based in Washington, DC, dedicated to the organizational development of AIDS service organizations in the epidemic’s early years.
In addition to STD-related work, he has published in the areas of antiretroviral salvage therapy and HCV co-infection in marginally housed HIV-infected persons in San Francisco. He is adjunct assistant professor at UCSF, Medical Director of San Francisco Magnet center, and he provides primary HIV care at the East Bay AIDS Center in Berkeley and the VA Medical Center in San Francisco.
Kelly Johnson, MD, MPH
Medical Director
Dr. Kelly Johnson is the Medical Director of the California Prevention Training Center, a Public Health Medical Officer in the STD Control Branch at the California Department of Public Health, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and works on the inpatient Infectious Diseases service at UCSF. Her research interests include the intersection between HIV and bacterial STIs as well as real-world implementation of HIV PrEP.
Elizabeth Olson, MPH
Clinical Program Manager
Elizabeth Olson plans and implements CDC-funded STI clinical updates in the five-state regional area to prevent, reduce and treat STIs throughout the United States. She has a background in research, education, prevention, and advocacy around health disparities both domestic and international. She earned an MPH from Tufts University in 2011.
