Dr Jeanne Marrazzo

Speaker

Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington, in Seattle, U.S. Dr Marrazzo is Medical Director of the Seattle STD/HIV Prevention and Training Center, president of the American STD Association, and Associate Editor of the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases. She is Protocol Co-Chair of the VOICE Study, a large study implemented by the Microbicides Trial Network to test HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis administered vaginally and orally to women at high risk for HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America, and has been the Principal Investigator for numerous studies of clinical and epidemiologic aspects of genital chlamydial infections, vaginal infections, and cervicitis. Other research interests include molecular epidemiology, pathogenesis, and management of bacterial vaginosis, diagnosis and screening of chlamydial infection and epidemiology and management of cervicitis.