Katherine K. Hsu, MD
Professor, Pediatrics
Biography
After completing her residency at Columbia‐Presbyterian Medical Center, Katherine Hsu, MD, 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. Nineteen years later, she is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Adolescent Medicine. In addition to her work in the school of medicine, she serves Medical Director in the Division of STD Prevention & HIV/AIDS Surveillance as a part of the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Her research interests are sexually transmitted diseases and syndromes in adolescents and young adults, infectious diseases in adolescents and young adults, post-sexual assault care in adolescents and young adults, and vaccine preventable diseases in adolescents and young adults.
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 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 - Published on 11/1/2021
Earnest R, Rönn MM, Bellerose M, Menon-Johansson AS, Berruti AA, Chesson HW, Gift TL, Hsu KK, Testa C, Zhu L, Malyuta Y, Menzies NA, Salomon JA. Modeling the Cost-Effectiveness of Express Multisite Gonorrhea Screening Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States. Sex Transm Dis. 2021 11 01; 48(11):805-812. PMID: 33993161.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/3/2021
Chitneni P, Bwana MB, Muyindike W, Owembabazi M, Kalyebara PK, Byamukama A, Mbalibulha Y, Smith PM, Hsu KK, Haberer JE, Kaida A, Matthews LT. STI prevalence among men living with HIV engaged in safer conception care in rural, southwestern Uganda. PLoS One. 2021; 16(3):e0246629. PMID: 33657120.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2021
Elder HR, Gruber S, Willis SJ, Cocoros N, Callahan M, Flagg EW, Klompas M, Hsu KK. Can Machine Learning Help Identify Patients at Risk for Recurrent Sexually Transmitted Infections? Sex Transm Dis. 2021 01; 48(1):56-62. PMID: 32810028.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/3/2020
Willis SJ, Elder H, Cocoros N, Young J, Marcus JL, Eberhardt K, Callahan M, Herrick B, Weiss M, Hafer E, Erani D, Josephson M, Llata E, Flagg EW, Hsu KK, Klompas M. More Screening or More Disease? Gonorrhea Testing and Positivity Patterns Among Men in 3 Large Clinical Practices in Massachusetts, 2010-2017. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 12 03; 71(9):e399-e405. PMID: 31967644.
Read at: PubMed
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