Program Manager and Clinical Consultant

Tamara Ooms, RN, MS, FNP has worked in sexual and reproductive health for over twenty years as a nurse practitioner, clinical consultant, and manager. Her clinical work has focused on the care of underserved people in the San Francisco Bay Area, primarily at San Francisco City Clinic where she worked as a nurse practitioner for eight years. Tamara’s previous work as a consultant for the CAPTC and CDPH included clinical consultation for the STD Warmline, provider education and training, and research and writing for STD policy and program initiatives.

As an educator, Tamara’s teaching focus is on STD diagnosis and management as well as LGBT health and she is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSF Department of Family Health Care Nursing. Most recently, Tamara was the nurse manager at San Francisco City Clinic for four years where she was responsible for clinic operations, compliance, and clinical quality improvement. Tamara recently moved to Portland, OR where she will be working remotely for the CAPTC.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Ina Park, MS, is the Principal Investigator at the California Prevention Training Center. She is a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and a Medical Consultant in the Division of STD Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

She is a co-author of the 2021 CDC STD Treatment Guidelines, the country’s premier resource for diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections. Dr. Park is also the author of Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs. 

Meet Dr. Ina Park, physician fighting STI stigma

Clinical Faculty

Dr. Rosalyn Plotzker is an assistant professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and also performs high-resolution anoscopy at the UCSF Anal Neoplasia Clinic, Research, and Education (ANCRE) Center.

Rosalyn completed a fellowship in Sexually Transmitted Diseases with CAPTC and the California Department of Public Health where she also currently serves as a public health medical officer and clinical lead for congenital syphilis prevention. She also leads efforts to improve HIV prevention and STD screening with the California Office of AIDS. Finally, Rosalyn directs the Virtual Approach to Gynecology Project, a virtual reality gynecologic training module for medical trainees.

Clinical Faculty

Dr. Eric Tang is a Public Health Medical Officer for the STD Control Branch at the California Department of Public Health. He received his medical degree at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and his Master of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He completed a combined internal medicine and preventive medicine residency program through Kaiser San Francisco and the University of California, San Francisco. He currently sees patients at the San Francisco City Clinic, a municipal STD clinic.