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 leads 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 director of the Individual-Level Implementation Strategy 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 UCSF Implementation Science Center Executive Committee.

Ellen Eaton, MD, MSPH

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