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Kelly Johnson, MD, MPH, Takes on Leadership Role as CAPTC's Medical Director
We are excited to introduce Kelly Johnson, MD, MPH, the new clinical director of the CAPTC, who accepted the position after the tenure of Ina Park, MD, CAPTC’s principal investigator (PI). We sat down with Dr. Johnson to talk about her public health journey, interest in sexual health, and goals for the clinical program.
Why are you interested in sexual health?
It gets back to what it was about microbiology and infectious diseases that I liked so much. You have an individual patient, they have a particular infection, and so you help them get them treated. But it’s also a population issue because these are transmissible infections. You’re dealing with these networks of people and asking questions such as “How do you communicate with people? How do you get people in care in a way that is non-stigmatizing and encourages them to come back? How do you talk to patients in a way that’s not judgmental? How do you get them to talk to their partners?” It ties in a lot of my interests, like individual care, population health, language, and communications. Sexual health really felt like the right place for me in the end, and there’s a lot of research and great people in this field.
Read the full Q&A with Dr. Johnson here
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