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King K. Holmes, MD, PhD

  • Professor of Global Health and Medicine
  • Head, Division of Infectious Diseases
  • Harborview Medical Center
  • Chair, Department of Global Health
  • University of Washington

Dr. Holmes chairs the Department of Global Health, is the Director of the University of Washington Center for AIDS and STDs, a WHO Collaborating Center, which involves 265 UW-affiliated faculty and research scientists and 85 pre- and post-doctoral trainees. He is the principle investigator for the NIH-funded UW Center for AIDS Research and the UW STI Cooperative Research Center, and PI for the International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH), and co-PI on NIH-funded AIDS/STD pre-doctoral and post-doctoral research training program, and a Fogarty International Center International AIDS Research Training Program. UW-based post-doctoral trainees in STI/HIV-related research have often extended their training to international sites with support from our Fogarty International Center or to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with CDC STI research fellowship funding.

Dr. Holmes has participated in research on STIs for 40 years and in research, training, and technical assistance on HIV/AIDS and other STIs in Africa, Latin America, SE Asia, and the Western Pacific for over 20 years. He has participated in the design and conduct of six randomized controlled trials of STI prevention. He currently leads an NIH-funded randomized trial of topical microbicide use by Kenyan men in fishing communities on Lake Victoria for prevention of STI/HIV acquisition and a Welcome Trust/NIH-funded 20-city randomized trial of STD/HIV prevention in Peru. He has trained and/or mentored over 100 scientists involved in HIV/STI research and care in the U.S. and other countries throughout the world.

Selected Publications

Drain PK, Holmes KK, Skeff KM, Hall TL, Gardner P.Global health training and international clinical rotations during residency: current status, needs, and opportunities. Acad Med 2009;84:320-25.
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Brooks JT, Kaplan JE, Holmes KK, Benson C, Pau A, Masur H. HIV-associated opportunistic infections – going, going, but not gone: the continued need for prevention and treatment guidelines. Clin Infect Dis 2009;48:609-11.
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Aral SO, Fenton KA, Holmes KK. Sexually transmitted diseases in the USA: temporal trends. Sex Transm Infect 2007;83:257-66.
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Winer RL, Hughes JP, Feng Q, O'Reilly S, Kiviat NB, Holmes KK, Koutsky LA. Condom use and the risk of genital human papillomavirus infection in young women. NEJM 2006;354:2645-54.
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Meier AS, Bukusi EA, Cohen CR, Holmes KK. Independent association of hygiene, socioeconomic status, and circumcision with reduced risk of HIV infection among Kenyan men. JAIDS 2006;43:117-8.
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Golden MR, Whittington WL, Handsfield HH, Hughes JP, Stamm WE, Hogben M, Clark A, Malinski C, Helmers JR, Thomas KK and Holmes KK. Effect of expedited treatment of sex partners on recurrent or persistent gonorrhea or chlamydial infection. N Engl J Med 2005;352:676-85
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