STOP HIV: PrEP Care on Demand

Faculty

Agustina Boehringer, DMSc, PA-C

Chief Medical Officer
Heart to Heart International
Lenexa, KS
(she/her/hers)

Dr. Boehringer is a doctorally-educated PA and has been practicing clinically in the field of Emergency and Urgent Care Medicine since 2004. Dr. Boehringer attended the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in her native country of Argentina and subsequently earned a Master of Science in PA Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, as well as a Doctor of Medical Science in Global Health and Disaster Medicine from the University of Lynchburg in Virginia. While serving as the Associate Medical Director of a chain of Urgent Care centers in the Greater Boston area, Dr. Boehringer noticed a gap in care for patients seeking HIV prevention, and in response to this she launched one of the first Urgent Care-based PrEP programs in the country, which she ran for several years. Since then, she has turned this program over to other colleagues as she pursued a professional opportunity as Chief Medical Officer of a global humanitarian organization, the position she holds today. This position had her move to the Kansas City area, where she currently resides. Dr. Boehringer is married and has two adult sons, one of whom is pursuing a finance degree and one of whom serves in active duty service with the United States Navy. She and her husband enjoy traveling and are avid scuba divers. They also have more rescue dogs than most people would consider normal. 

Ryan Pasternak, MD, MPH, FAAP (he/him)

Board-Certified Adolescent Medicine specialist,
Division Director for Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas City and Professor of Pediatrics at University of Missouri,
Kansas City, MO.

Dr. Pasternak completed undergraduate training in Chemistry at The College of William and Mary in Virginia and then graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk Virginia. He attended pediatric residency training at LSU Health New Orleans and completed a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine and Masters of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins’ Schools of Medicine and Public Health respectively. Dr. Pasternak discovered his love for adolescent patients in medical school. During fellowship his research focused on adolescent confidentiality as well as adolescent sexual health and care of minority and marginalized populations. His public health work focused on Health Policy. He used this training at LSU School of Medicine to develop the Southern Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Health Equity and now in Kansas City at Children’s Mercy. His service goals include developing clinical programs to support expanding comprehensive adolescent clinical care services and expanding health professional trainee experiences in adolescent and young adult healthcare and research, provider education on adolescent healthcare, and state and national advocacy for adolescent and young adult health and reproductive health. Pasternak is a member and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, past Board Member of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM), member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and Physicians for Reproductive Health (PRH) and Faculty of the Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Education Program and Fellow of PRH’s Reproductive Health Leadership Training Academy, as well as a member of the Surfer’s Medical Association.