Sancta St. Cyr, MD, MPH, is a medical officer in the Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She joined the Division’s surveillance team in 2017 as the project officer for the Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP), the national sentinel surveillance system for antimicrobial resistant gonorrhea. In addition to leading GISP, she regularly collaborated on internal and external projects related to antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea. Dr. St. Cyr co-led the gonorrhea subcommittee for CDC's 2021 STI Treatment Guidelines and partnered in the establishment of the Suspected Gonorrhea Treatment Failure Consultation Form, an online technical assistance and reporting platform. In 2023, Dr. St. Cyr transitioned to the DSTDP clinical team and currently functions as a clinical consultant for internal and external partners on different STIs, including antimicrobial resistant gonorrhea, syphilis, and herpes. Dr. St. Cyr earned her medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center- New Orleans, trained in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and completed her infectious diseases fellowship and Master of Public Health in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
