Challenging Cases and Clinical Updates in STIs
Sexual health clinicians from Seattle-King County’s Sexual Health Clinic will review a series of patient cases and didactic pearls to highlight recent research and updates in STI-related care.
Speakers: Chase Cannon, MD, MPH and Shannon Winters, MN, ANP-BC, ARNP
Dr. Chase Cannon, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Washington and Medical Director for the Public Health – Seattle & King County Sexual Health Clinic. He is an infectious diseases specialist and primary care provider for gender diverse people living with HIV or taking PrEP, including persons who use drugs or have unstable housing. His research is informed by clinical practice and focuses on implementing existing and novel HIV/STI prevention strategies for LGBTQ+ and other socially marginalized populations. He believes that collaboration is the best approach to increase knowledge and empower people to meet their health goals.
Shannon Winters is a board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner who has spent her career as a clinician in the world of sexual and reproductive health care and public health. After graduating with a master’s in nursing in the Infectious Diseases Adult Nurse Practitioner track from the University of Washington in 2009, she spent the first 9 years of her career working in federally funded family planning clinics in Wyoming and Northern Colorado, focusing on contraceptive and STI management. For the last 5 years, she’s been with the team at the Seattle & King County Public Health Sexual Health Clinic at Harborview Medical Center providing general sexual health care, focusing on STIs. Her current clinical interests include STI clinical care and research, HIV PrEP management, transgender care, and contraceptive management.
Patient-centered approaches to menopausal symptoms and contraception in peri-menopause
This session will offer practical knowledge to support your patients through perimenopause and menopause. Health care providers are vital in supporting patients through these significant life stages. This session will equip you with the latest information on the pathophysiology, symptomatology, contraception options, and patient-centered management strategies for perimenopause and menopause.
Speaker: Jennifer Karlin, MD, PhD
Jennifer Karlin, MD, PhD, is a board-certified, full-scope family physician and fellowship-trained family planning specialist in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Trained as an anthropologist and historian of medicine, her mixed-method research addresses how we can alter healthcare relationships and systems to encourage patient empowerment, equity, and quality—as defined by patients themselves. Her research focuses on understanding patient preferences for treatment options in sexual and reproductive health including self-injection of contraceptives, self-management of medication abortion, and patient preferences for contraceptive counseling. Focusing on physician identity formation, she investigates how health care providers can approach their clinical practices from a historical, trauma-informed, and self-reflexive perspective to improve quality of care, provide person-centered care, and decrease additional trauma caused by the medical system. Dr. Karlin serves in an advisory role as a medical consultant for the California Family PACT program and the Clinical Training Center for Sexual and Reproductive Health (CTC-SRH) and as an associate editor for Annals of Family Medicine.
CDC Contraception Guidance: U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (US MEC) and U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use (US SPR)
Participate in this session to learn about major updates to CDC contraceptive recommendations, U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2024 (US MEC) and U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2024 (US SPR). These evidence-based recommendations seek to remove unnecessary medical barriers to accessing and using contraception and to support the provision of person-centered contraceptive counseling and services. We will share strategies to use updated contraceptive recommendations in different clinical settings.
Speakers: Antoinette Nguyen, MD, MPH and Kathryn Curtis, PhD
Dr. Antoinette Nguyen is a double board-certified OB/GYN physician and complex family planning subspecialist. She is an adjunct associate professor with the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University. She received her MD and MPH in epidemiology from Emory University and completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University and a fellowship in complex family planning at the University of North Carolina. Since 2020, Dr. Nguyen’s team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) led the development and revisions of U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use and U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, most recently updated in 2024. Her current research interests are: contraceptive safety, effectiveness, and guidelines development. For this webinar, Dr. Nguyen will be speaking in her capacity as adjunct associate professor at Emory University and not on behalf of CDC.
Dr. Curtis is a health scientist with over 30 years of experience, specializing in contraceptive safety and effectiveness, access to contraception, and the development and implementation of evidence-based contraception guidance. Her career began at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in 1996, after receiving a PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina. Since 2010, Dr. Curtis’ team at CDC led the development and revisions of U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use and U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, most recently updated in 2024. For this webinar, Dr. Curtis will be speaking in her personal capacity and not on behalf of CDC.
Infectious Vaginitis: Challenging Cases
Objectives:
1. Discuss how to identify and treat patients with drug resistant Trichomonas vaginalis infection
2. Describe how to treat Trichomonas infection in the setting of 5-nitroimidazole hypersensitivity
3. Discuss the treatment of recurrent BV, including male partner treatment in some circumstances
4. Discuss the treatment of complicated cases of vulvovaginal candidiasis
Speaker: Christina Muzny, MD, MPH
Dr. Christina Muzny obtained her medical degree at the Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center College of Medicine followed by an internal medicine residency and an infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She joined the ID faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2010. She obtained an MSPH in Epidemiology at the UAB School of Public Health in 2017. Her clinical and research interests focus on HIV and STIs, particularly vaginal infections. Her current NIH/NIAID-funded R01 research focuses on the pathogenesis of bacterial vaginosis in addition to the optimal treatment regimen for trichomoniasis in women and men. Dr. Muzny is a Full Professor in the UAB Division of Infectious Diseases with secondary appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology. She is also the Medical Director of the UAB Vaginitis Clinic and UAB Sexual Health Research Clinic as well as the Chair of the UAB Institutional Review Board.
Federal Attacks on Sexual & Reproductive Health *Not CE Eligible*
Join NFPRHA’s President & CEO Clare Coleman for the latest updates on sexual and reproductive health, including challenges to Title X, Medicaid, abortion care, and more. Coleman will discuss the calculated efforts at the federal level to inflict harm on patients and the health care providers who serve them — particularly those reaching people with low incomes, people of color, rural communities, and others already facing steep barriers to care.
Speaker: Clare Coleman
Clare Coleman is the President & CEO of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA), a position she has held since 2009. Under her leadership, NFPRHA has grown its membership by 500%, tripled the organization’s staff and budget, and expanded its portfolio, with a focus on federal policy and regulatory reform, service delivery improvement, and health equity. Clare was previously president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley in New York state, a Title X sub-recipient agency, from 2006 to 2009. Prior to her time in New York, her home state, Clare was Chief of Staff for former US House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, worked for then-Rep. Chuck Schumer, and two other members of the House of Representatives. In addition to her decade-plus on the Hill, Clare was a lead lobbyist for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in the late 1990s and researched the impact of catastrophes on public health while working at the New York University School of Medicine.