Seattle, WA 98104                                       

Phone: (206) 731-3620
Fax: (206) 731-3694
worthy@u.washington.edu

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CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Holmes heads the Infectious Diseases Section at Harborview Medical Center and directs the UW Center for AIDS and STD, which includes two NIH Research Centers (The UW Center for AIDS Research, and the UW STD Research Center) and an NIH-funded training grant that provides pre- and post doctoral research training on AIDS & STD for 18 pre-and post-doctoral fellows at the University of Washington. The training grant offers 5 separate research tracks: viral STD/HIV; bacterial/parasitic STD; epidemiology & public health; international STD/HIV research; and behavioral & prevention research. Formal didactic training is encouraged, in some cases leading to the MPH degree. Approximately 100 faculty are involved in this research training, with over $83 million in annual federal funding for STD and AIDS research. HIV programs include molecular virology, immunology, clinical trials, vaccine development, vaccine evaluation, and international HIV prevention research; STD programs include separate projects involving genital HPV infection, genital herpes, HTLV infections, vaginal infections, pelvic inflammatory diseases, chlamydial and gonococcal infection, the immunobiology of syphilis, and STD prevention research in the US and in developing countries. Training in AIDS & STD research methodologies is provided in an annual summer course, and support in epidemiology and biostatistics is available.

PUBLICATIONS

Gorbach PM, Stoner BP, Aral SO, Whittington WHL, Connor S, Holmes KK. Avoiding risky sex partners:perception of partners' risks vs partners' self reported risks. Sex Transm Infect 79:197-201, 2003.

Kitahata MM, Tegger MK, Wagner EH, Holmes KK. Comprehensive health care for people infected with HIV in developing countries. Br Med J 325:954-957, 2002.

Masur H, Kaplan JE, Holmes KK, Infectious Diseases Society of America. Guidelines for preventing opportunistic infections among HIV-infected persons-2002. Recommendations of the US Public Health Service and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Ann Intern Med 137:435-78, 2002.

Cohen CR, Manhart LE, Bukusi EA, Astete S, Brunham RC, Holmes KK, Sinei SK, Bwayo JJ, Totten PA. Association of Mycoplasma genitalium with acute endometritis. Lancet 359:765-6, 2002.