Speaker: Sarah Wood, MD, MS

Title: Using Implementation Science Tools and Frameworks to Address Challenges in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Delivery
 

Sarah Wood is a physician scientist with a career mission to improve quality and equitable delivery of sexual and reproductive health care through developing and implementing innovative health care delivery strategies for adolescents and young adults. A former community health worker and HIV tester, Dr. Wood is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; an Attending Physician, Assistant Director of Adolescent HIV Services, and a faculty member in PolicyLab at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP); and the Co-Director of the Penn Center for AIDS Research Clinical Core. Dr. Wood provides medical care to youth living with and at risk of HIV at the CHOP Adolescent Initiative Clinic. Her NIMH-funded research focuses on developing and implementing HIV prevention interventions in adolescent primary care for youth with STIs.