Perspectives on PrEP: Patient Conversations

Faculty

Matthew Spinelli, MD, MAS

Associate Professor
HIV, ID, and Global Medicine
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, CA
(he/him/his)

Matthew Spinelli, MD, MS is an HIV/ID physician with training in implementation science methods who uses these approaches to support pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation, PrEP/HIV ART adherence, and PrEP persistence/HIV retention in care. A key tool he is using in this work is a point-of-care urine tenofovir test that can provide real-time adherence information to clinicians to drive adherence interventions. More recently, Dr. Spinelli lead projects on development of adherence measurement techniques for doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis, including a directly observed therapy randomized trial. In terms of educational initiatives, he is the co-director of the Implementation Science Short Course and the Individual-Level Intervention Design course in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology. As an HIV/ID clinician, Dr. Spinellii serves as the PrEP Medical Lead for the Ward 86 Clinic. Finally, he is a member of the Partnership for Research in Implementation Science for Equity, a collaboration between the SF Department of Public Health and UCSF that seeks to use implementation science methods to advance health equity.

Ellen Eaton, MD, MSPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham