Women's Health Care:
• HIV
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• International women's health
• Immigrant health care

• Washington, 2006

• Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2008

7/1/06

• MD degree
  (Harvard Medical School, 2002)
• Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  (University of Washington, 2006)
• Masters in Public Health, Epidemiology
  (University of Washington, 2009)
• Women's Reproductive Health Research Career

  Development Program:
  HIV-1 and the Female Genital Tract
  (University of Washington, July 2006–March 2010 )

• Comparison of Immune Cells in the Cervix Between

  Women With and Without Detectable Genital HIV-1
• The Female Genital Innate Immune Response to

  Vaginal Microbiota (K08)
  (Mentor - David N. Fredricks, MD)

• American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• American Society for Microbiology
• Institute for Translational Health Sciences, University of
  Washington

Reed S, Laya M, Melville J, Ismail S, Mitchell C, Ackerman D. Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and clinical associations among veiled East African women in Washington State.  Jl Womens Health, April 25, 2006.

 

Mitchell C, Balkus J, Agnew K, Cohn S, Luque A, Lawler R, Coombs R, Hitti J.  Bacterial vaginosis, not HIV, is primarily responsible for increased vaginal concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 2008 May;24(5):667-71.

 

Mitchell C, JenningsC, Brambilla D, AldrovandiG, AmedeeAM, Beck I, BremerJ, CoombsR, DeckerD, Fiscus S, FitzgibbonJ, Luzuriaga K, MoyeJ, Palumbo P, Reichelderfer P,SomasundaranM, StevensW, Frenkel L for the Dried Blood Spot Working Group of the Infant Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network. HIV-1 DNA yield from dried blood spots is diminished after storage in a humid incubator at 37oC compared to -20oC. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Sep;46(9):2945-9.

 

Fredricks D, Fiedler T, Thomas K, Mitchell C, Marrazzo J.  Changes in vaginal bacterial concentrations with intravaginal metronidazole therapy for bacterial vaginosis as assessed by quantitative PCR. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2009 Mar;47(3):721-6.

 

Mitchell C, Hitti J, Agnew K, Fredricks D. Comparison of oral and vaginal metronidazole for treatment of bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy: impact on fastidious bacteria. BMC Infectious Disease 2009 June 10;9(1):89.

 

Mitchell C, Balkus J, Agnew K, Lawler R, Hitti J. Changes in the vaginal microenvironment with metronidazole treatment for bacterial vaginosis in early pregnancy.  Journal of Women’s Health.  2009 Nov;18(11):1817-24. 

 

Mitchell C, Moreira C, Fredricks D, Paul K, Caliendo A, Kurpewski J, Cu-Uvin S. Detection of Fastidious Vaginal Bacteria in Women with HIV Infection and Bacterial Vaginosis. Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2009:236919. Epub 2009 Nov 12.

 

Mitchell C, Kraft K, Peterson D, Frenkel L. Cross-contamination during processing of dried blood spots used for rapid diagnosis of HIV-1 infection of infants is rare and avoidable. Journal of Virological Methods. 2009 Oct 28. [Epub ahead of print]

 

Srinivasan S, LiuC, Mitchell CM, Fiedler T, Thomas KK, Agnew KJ, Marrazzo JM, Fredricks DN. Temporal variations in human vaginal bacteria and relationship with bacterial vaginosis. PloS One 2010; 5(4): e10197.

 

Mitchell C, Hitti J, Paul K, Agnew K, Cohn S, Luque A, Coombs R. Cervicovaginal shedding of HIV-1 is related to genital tract inflammation independent of changes in vaginal microbiota. Accepted for publication in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses (in press).