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Course

Best of ACTHIV® 2024: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Epidemiology and Missed Opportunities

Details

Published Date: 09/13/2024

Expiration Date: 09/15/2025

CE Credit: CME:0.5CNE: 0.5(Rx: 0.3)

Description

Selected by attendees and the program planning committee as one of the best sessions of the ACTHIV® 2024 conference for the frontline HIV care team, this activity will focus on current trends of common nationally notifiable STIs, potential challenges to diagnosing and treating chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, and how teams can apply knowledge of screening and treatment of syphilis in pregnant persons to prevent congenital syphilis.

Presenter(s)

Sancta St. Cyr,MD, MPH

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.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the current trends of common nationally notifiable sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
  • Identify potential challenges to diagnosing and treating chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis
  • Apply the knowledge of screening and treatment of syphilis in pregnant persons to prevent congenital syphilis

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