Class Information
Date: May 16, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM Central
Location: Zoom
CE: none available
This 1 hour Syphilis Update provides participants with training in the most recent advancements in epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of syphilis. This session focuses on general syphilis overview and basics.
Course Objectives
- Describe the changing epidemiologic trends of infection.
- List the stages of disease and describe clinical manifestations of each stage of syphilis.
- Discuss the clinical management of syphilis to include treatment, follow-up and partner management
- Discuss screening recommendations
Course Presenter Information
Tim Menza, MD, PhD (he/they) is an infectious disease specialist with advanced training and expertise in HIV, STI, and viral hepatitis prevention and care. Tim has extensive experience in creating, implementing, and evaluating public health policy and advocating for communities through system-level change. As medical director of Oregon’s HIV/STD/TB program over the past 5 and a half years, Tim facilitated the implementation of a free statewide home HIV/STI testing program, public health accountability metrics for the prevention of congenital syphilis, partnerships with correctional facilities to increase HIV/STI/HCV testing and led Oregon’s response to mpox. Tim is currently an associate professor in the department of medicine at the University of Washington and a medical director of the Sexual Health Clinic with Public Health—Seattle & King County.
Amy Radford
aradford@uw.edu