Recommendations and Reports
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US Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
STI Treatment Guidelines, 2021, Work Group Members
Chairperson: Kimberly A. Workowski, MD, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, and Emory University,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Work Group Members: Elizabeth Alderman, MD, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, The Pediatric Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Bronx, New York; Lindley Barbee, MD, University of Washington and Public Health Seattle and King County STD Clinic, Seattle, Washington; Luis
Barroso, MD, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Gale Burstein, MD, Erie County Department of Health, Buffalo, New York;
Virginia A. Caine, MD, Marion County Public Health Department, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana; Carla Chibwesha, MD, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Stephanie Cohen, MD, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California; Susan
Cu-Uvin, MD, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Jodie Dionne-Odom, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Julia
Dombrowski, MD, Public Health Seattle and King County, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Carolyn Gardella, MD, Veterans Affairs Puget
Sound University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; William M. Geisler, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Khalil G.
Ghanem, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Matthew Golden, MD, Seattle and King County STD/HIV Program University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington; Margaret R. Hammerschlag, MD, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York; H. Hunter Handsfield, MD,
University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD, Seattle, Washington; King K. Holmes, MD, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington;
Edward W. Hook, III, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Katherine Hsu, MD, Ratelle STD/HIV Prevention Training
Center, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Christine Johnston, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Patricia
Kissinger, PhD, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, University of California
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Lisa E. Manhart, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, University of Alabama at
Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; David H. Martin, MD, Tulane University, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana;
Leslie Massad, MD, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Kenneth H. Mayer, MD, Fenway Health, The Fenway Institute, Harvard Medical School,
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Candice McNeil, MD, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Alabama/North Carolina HIV/STD Prevention
Training Center, Forsyth County Department of Public Health, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Leandro Mena, MD, University of Mississippi Medical
Center, Jackson, Mississippi; Caroline Mitchell, MD, Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Boston, Massachusetts; Okeoma Mmeje, MD, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Anna-Barbara Moscicki, MD, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Christina A. Muzny, MD,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Natalie Neu, MD, Columbia University, New York, New York; Paul Nyirjesy, MD, Sidney
Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Jeff Peipert, MD, PhD, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana;
Rebecca Perkins, MD, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Susan Philip, MD, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California;
Asa Radix, MD, PhD, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, New York; Anne Rompalo, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;
Sarah Rudman, MD, County of Santa Clara Public Health Department, San Jose, California; Pablo J. Sanchez, MD, The Ohio State University Nationwide
Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio; George Sawaya, MD, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Arlene Seña, MD, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and Durham County Department of Public Health, Durham, North Carolina; Jeanne Sheffield, MD, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland; Jack Sobel, MD, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; David Soper, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South
Carolina; Anne Spaulding, MD, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Bradley Stoner, MD, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Stephanie Taylor,
MD, Louisiana State University Crescent Care Sexual Health Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; Susan Tuddenham, MD, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Karen Wendel, MD, Denver Public Health, Denver, Colorado; Harold C. Wiesenfeld, MD, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Jonathan Zenilman, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Moderators: Philip Chan, MD, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Edward W. Hook, III, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham,
Alabama; Christine Johnston, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; David H. Martin, MD, Tulane University, Louisiana State University
Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Christina A. Muzny,
MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Ina Park, MD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Hilary
Reno, MD, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Jonathan Zenilman, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Rapporteurs: Philip Chan, MD, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Hilary Reno, MD, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Christine
Johnston, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Christina A. Muzny, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama;
Ina Park, MD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Jonathan Zenilman, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Liaison Participants: Jean Anderson, MD, CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STD Prevention and Treatment, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland; Kevin Ault, MD, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; Himani
Bisht, PhD, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland; J. Quentin Clemens, MD, American Urological Association, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, Michigan; Gina Coleman, MD, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; Carolyn Deal, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland; Maeve B. Mello, PhD, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Washington, DC; Diane Foley, MD,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC; Michael Ganio, PharmD, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Bethesda,
Maryland; Eric Garges, MD, U.S. Department of Defense, Arlington, Virginia, and Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland; Brent Gibson, MD,
National Commission on Correctional Health Care, Chicago, Illinois; William A. Glover, II, PhD, Association of Public Health Laboratories, Silver Spring,
Maryland; W. David Hardy, MD, HIV Medical Association, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; David Harvey, National Coalition of STD
Directors, Washington, DC; Letha Healey, MD, Health Resources and Services Administration (HIV/AIDS Bureau), Rockville, Maryland; Michael Huey,
MD, American College Health Association, Silver Spring, Maryland, and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Gal Mayer, MD, GLMA: Health Professionals
Advancing LGBTQ Equality, Washington, DC; Sumathi Nambiar, MD, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland; Seema Nayak, MD, National
Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland; Lori Newman, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland; Samantha Ritter,
MPH, National Association of County and City Health Officials, Washington, DC; Elizabeth Ruebush, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials,
Arlington, Virginia; Bisan Salhi, MD, PhD, American College of Emergency Physicians, Irving, Texas, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Natasha Travis,
MD, National Medical Association, Silver Spring, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Maria Trent, MD, Society for Adolescent
Health and Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Julie Vaishampayan, MD, Infectious Disease Society of America,
Arlington, Virginia; Barbara Van Der Pol, PhD, American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and University
of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Teodora Elvira Wi, MD, Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes, World Health
Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.