Katherine K. Hsu, MD
Professor, Pediatrics
Biography
After completing her residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Katherine Hsu, MD, MPH, began her fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Disease at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. During this period she was awarded the Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society Edward H. Kass Award for Clinical Excellence During Fellowship. She is now a Professor of Pediatrics in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. In addition to her work in the school of medicine, she serves Medical Director in the Division of STD Prevention & HIV Surveillance as a part of the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Her research interests include vaccine-preventable diseases and prevention of sexually transmitted infections, and she has published in various scientific journals, including Vaccine, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Lancet HIV, PLoS Medicine, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, American Journal of Epidemiology, and American Journal of Public Health.
Other Positions
- Boston Medical Center
Education
- Brown University School of Medicine, MD
- Boston University School of Public Health, MPH
- Brown University, SB/ScB
Publications
- Published on 12/13/2024
Oliveira Roster KI, Rönn MM, Elder H, Gift TL, Roosevelt KA, Salomon JA, Hsu KK, Grad YH. Estimating the undetected burden and the likelihood of strain persistence of drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Dec 13. PMID: 39673766.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/30/2024
Daskalakis DC, Heller HM, Shenoy ES, Hsu K. Case 16-2024: A 20-Year-Old Man with a Pustular Rash. N Engl J Med. 2024 May 30; 390(20):1906-1912. PMID: 38810190.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/9/2024
Reimche JL, Pham CD, Joseph SJ, Hutton S, Cartee JC, Ruan Y, Breaux M, Ivanof C, Joshi A, DeMartino M, Kirby JE, Barbee LA, Kersh EN, Roosevelt KA, Hsu KK. Novel strain of multidrug non-susceptible Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the USA. Lancet Infect Dis. 2024 Mar; 24(3):e149-e151. PMID: 38215769.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/19/2023
Elder H, Platt L, Leach D, Sheetoh C, Ramirez VM, Molotnikov L, Hernandez B, Roosevelt K, Hsu KK. Factors Associated With Delays in Presentation and Treatment of Gonorrhea, Massachusetts 2015-2019. Sex Transm Dis. 2024 Mar 01; 51(3):146-155. PMID: 38133572.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/7/2023
You S, Yaesoubi R, Lee K, Li Y, Eppink ST, Hsu KK, Chesson HW, Gift TL, Berruti AA, Salomon JA, Rönn MM. Lifetime quality-adjusted life years lost due to genital herpes acquired in the United States in 2018: a mathematical modeling study. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2023 Mar; 19:100427. PMID: 36950038.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/7/2023
You S, Yaesoubi R, Lee K, Li Y, Eppink ST, Hsu KK, Chesson HW, Gift TL, Berruti AA, Salomon JA, Rönn MM. Lifetime quality-adjusted life years lost due to genital herpes acquired in the United States in 2018: a mathematical modeling study. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2023 Mar; 19:100427. PMID: 36950038.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/4/2022
Argenyi MS, Molotnikov LE, Leach DH, Roosevelt KA, Klevens RM, Hsu KK. Gaps in HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Continuum of Care Following State Partner Services for Massachusetts Primary and Secondary Syphilis Cases, 2017 to 2018. Sex Transm Dis. 2022 Sep 01; 49(9):657-661. PMID: 35797587.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2022
Hsu KK, Rakhmanina NY. Adolescents and Young Adults: The Pediatrician's Role in HIV Testing and Pre- and Postexposure HIV Prophylaxis. Pediatrics. 2022 01 01; 149(1). PMID: 34972226.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/16/2021
Willis SJ, Elder H, Cocoros NM, Callahan M, Hsu KK, Klompas M. Impact of an Electronic Medical Record Best Practice Alert on Expedited Partner Therapy for Chlamydia Infection and Reinfection. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 Jan; 9(1):ofab574. PMID: 35024371.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/1/2021
Stierman B, Abrams JY, Godfred-Cato SE, Oster ME, Meng L, Yip L, Patel P, Balachandran N, Prezzato E, Pierce T, Hsu KK, Burns M, Peterson Pompa X, Lauro P, Hartley A, Jones C, Gretsch S, Reid H, Lim S, Campbell AP, Belay ED. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in the United States, March 2020 to February 2021. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2021 11 01; 40(11):e400-e406. PMID: 34382615.
Read at: PubMed
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