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ECKERT, MD, Linda O

Associate Professor
Gynecology Director, Harborview Sexual Assault Center

Specialties:
Women’s Health Care:
• Infectious disease
• HIV
• Human Papillomavirus 
• Endometritis
• Immunizations
• Sexual assault
Licensure:
• Washington, 1992
Certification:
• Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1993 (recertified annually)
Joined UW Medicine:
6/1/92
Education:
• MD degree
  (University of California, San Diego, 1987)
• Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  (University of Texas, 1991)
• Fellowship in Infectious Diseases
  (University of Washington, 1996)
Research Interests:
• Sexual assault
• Vaginal flora
• Endometritis
Chlamydia trachomatis
• Immunizations
• Global Health Policy Development
Professional Organizations:
• Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• Seattle Gynecologic Society
• American Sexually Transmitted Disease Association
• Infectious Diseases Society of Obstetrics and
  Gynecology
• Pacific Coast Obstetrical and Gynecological Society
• Sabbatical Experience 2009
   HPV Vaccine Focal Point, World Health Organization,
   Geneva, Switerland
   Consultant, WHO Cervical Cancer Prevention
   Guidelines 
Selected Publications:
MacKroth MS, Irwin K, Vandelear J, Hombach J, Eckert LO. Immunizing school-age children and adolescents: experience from low-and middle-income countries. Vaccine 2010; 28:1138-1147.

Wong CA, Saraiya M, Hariri S, Eckert LO, Hawlett RI, Markowitz LE, et al. Approaches to monitoring biological outcomes for HPV vaccination: challenges of early adopter countries. Vaccine 2010 Nov 4. [epub ahead of print]

Hoppe K, Eckert LO. Achieving high coverage of H1N1 influenza vaccine in an ethnically diverse obstetric population: success of a multifaceted aproach. Infectious Diseases of Obstetrics and Gynecology. in press

Eckert LO, Sugar NF. Older victims of sexual assault: an underrecognized population. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2008, 198(6):668e1-7

Lentz GM, Ayala L, Eckert LO. A comprehensive women's health care center: Are gynecologists offering primary care? Am J Obstet Gynecol 2006;194(6):1660-6.

Ackerman D, Sugar N, Fine D, Eckert LO. Sexual assault victims: Factors associated with follow-up. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2006;194(6):1653-9.

Eckert LO, Thwin SS, Hillier SL, Kiviat NB, Eschenbach DA. The antimicrobial treatment of subacute endometritis: a proof of concept study. Am J Obstet & Gynecol 2004;190:71–6.

Sugar NF, Fine DN, Eckert LO. Physical injury after sexual assault: findings of a large case series. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2004;190:305–13.

Eckert LO, Watts DH, Thwin SS, Kiviat NB, Agnew KJ, Eschenbach DA. Histologic endometritis in asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus-infected women: characterization and effect of antimicrobial therapy. Obstet Gynecol 2003;102(5 pt. 1):962–9.

Eckert LO, Hawes SE, Wölner-Hanssen P, Kiviat NB, Wasserheit HN, Paavonen J, Eschenbach DA, Holmes KK. Endometritis: The clinical-pathological syndrome. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2002;186:690–5.
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Contact Information

Clinic
Harborview Women's Clinic, HMC
Clinic Appts
206-744-3367
Academic Phone
206-744-3319
Box Number
359865