King Holmes

King Holmes
William H. Foege Chair and Professor, Department of Global Health
Professor, Department of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Head, Infectious Diseases Section, Harborview Medical Center

Contact

Harborview Medical Center, Box 359931
325 9th Avenue
Seattle, WA
98104

206-744-3620
206-744-3694 (Fax)
kkh@u.washington.edu

Education

  • AB  Harvard University
  • MD  Cornell University
  • PhD  University of Hawaii

Projects

Selected Publications

  • For publications, go to Dr. King Holmes'Community of Science expertise page.

    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Buffardi AL, Thomas KK, Holmes KK, Manhart LE. Moving upstream: ecosocial and psychosocial correlates of sexually transmitted infections among young adults in the United States. Am J Public Health 2008;98:1128-36.
    • Aral SO, Fenton KA, Holmes KK. Sexually transmitted diseases in the USA: temporal trends. Sex Transm Infect 2007;83:257-66.
    • Drain PK, Primack A, Hunt DD, Fawzi WW, Holmes KK, Gardner P. Global Health in medical education: a call for more training and opportunities. Acad Med 2007;82:226-30.
    • Aledort JE, Ronald A, Rafael ME, Girosi F, Vickerman P, Le Blanq SM, Landay A, Holmes K, Ridzon R, Hellmann N, Shea MV, Peeling RW. Reducing the burden of sexually transmitted infections in resource-limited settings: the role of improved diagnostics. Nature 2006;444(Suppl 1):S59-S72.
    • Peeling RW, Holmes KK, Mabey D, Ronald A. Rapid tests for STIs: the way forward. Sex Transm Infect 2006;82(Suppl 5):v1-6.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Steele MS, Bukusi E, Cohen CR, Shell-Duncan BA, Holmes KK. The ABCs of HIV prevention in men: associations with HIV risk and protective behaviors. JAIDS 2006;43:571-76.
    • Golden MR, Whittington WLH, Handsfield HH, Hughes JP, Stamm WE, Hogben M, Clark A, Malinski C, Helmers JRL, Thomas KK, Holmes KK. Effect of expedited treatment of sex partners on recurrent or persistent gonorrhea or chlamydial infection. NEJM 2005;352:676-85.
    • Manhart LE, Holmes KK. Randomized controlled trials of individual-level, population-level, and multi-level interventions for preventing sexually transmitted infections: What has worked? J Infect Dis 2005;191(Suppl 1):S7-S24.

    For more publications go to Dr. King Holmes'Community of Science Expertise page.

 

Expertise

Global health, internal medicine, infectious diseases with research on HIV/AIDS and STDs; clinical epidemiology and microbiology. Clinical trials, HIV/STD prevention research.