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Sarah M. Wood, MD, MSHP
Attending Physician
Dr. Wood's research focuses on improving health service delivery to reduce HIV and STI incidence in adolescents and young adults. Her current projects examine improving uptake and adherence of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in sexual and gender minority youth, increasing STI and HIV screening in primary care, and identifying patient, neighborhood, and clinic-based barriers to HIV and sexual health service delivery.
Bio
Sarah Wood, MD, is a faculty member at PolicyLab, an instructor of Pediatrics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and an attending physician in the Craig-Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She began her career in health care as a teen health educator and street outreach worker, and built upon these experiences to develop a lifelong career committed to improving sexual and reproductive health outcomes in adolescents and young adults.
Dr. Wood provides medical care to youth living with HIV at the CHOP Adolescent Initiative Clinic, and sexual and reproductive health care, including long-active reversible contraception, through CHOP’s Adolescent Gynecology Clinic. Her research focuses primarily on biomedical prevention of HIV in adolescents, with an emphasis on improving access and adherence to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. Dr. Wood is also the project leader for a CHOP quality improvement initiative aiming to improve chlamydia screening rates among young women seeking primary care.
To date, some of Dr. Wood's notable career accomplishments include the following awards:
- Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections Young Investigator Award, 2015
- F32 post-doctoral fellowship award from NIMH examine barriers to PrEP adherence in young men and transgender women of color, 2016-2018
- Center for AIDS Research Pilot Award, 2016
- Penn Mental Health AIDS Research Center Pilot Award, 2017
- CHOP Distinguished Research Trainee Award, 2018
Education and Training
BA, DePaul University (History/Women's Studies), 1998
MD, Drexel University College of Medicine, 2003
Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Adolescent Medicine), 2017
MS, University of Pennsylvania (Health Policy Research), 2017
Titles and Academic Titles
Attending Physician
Instructor of Pediatrics
Professional Memberships
American Academy of HIV Medicine, 2012-
Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, 2014-
Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2015-
Professional Awards
Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2007
Young Investigator Award, Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, 2015
Travel Scholarship Award, Center for AIDS Research National Meeting, 2016
Distinguished Research Trainee Award, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2017
Publication Highlights
Pubmed:
Wood SM, McGeary A, Wilson M, Taylor A, Aumeir B, Petsis D, Campbell K. Effectiveness of a quality improvement intervention to improve rates of routine Chlamydia trachomatis screening in adolescent females in primary care. Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. 2018 Dec; In press, 2018
Wood S, Ratcliffe S, Gowda C, Lee S, Dowshen NL and Gross R. Impact of insurance coverage on HIV transmission potential among antiretroviral therapy-treated youth living with HIV. AIDS. 2018 Apr; 32(7):895-902. PMCID: PMC5869
Wood SM, Schott W, Marshal MP, Akers AY. Disparities in Body Mass Index trajectories from adolescence to early adulthood for sexual minority women. J Adolesc Health. 2017 Sep; pii: S1054-139. PMCID: PMC5701844
Wood SM, Lowenthal E, Lee S, Ratcliffe SJ, Dowshen N. Longitudinal viral suppression among a cohort of adolescents and young adults with behaviorally-acquired Human Immunodeficiency Virus. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2017 Sep; 31(9):377-383. PMCID: PMC5610408.
Wood S, Lee S, Barg F, Castillo M, Dowshen N. Young Transgender Women's Attitudes Toward HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. J Adolesc Health. 2017 May; 60(5):549-555. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.12.004. Epub 2017 Jan 26
Links of Interest
PolicyLab Blog Post: Why Youth Living With HIV Need Continuous, High-Quality Health Care Coverage
PolicyLab Blog Post: Disparities in HIV Treatment Outcomes for Black Youth in 200 Words