Megan Huchko, MD, MPH
Clinical Instructor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Email: megan.huchko@ucsf.edu
Biosketch:
Megan Huchko, MD, MPH is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her ob-gyn training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. She completed a Reproductive Infectious Disease Fellowship and a traineeship in AIDS Prevention Studies at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at UCSF. During the first year of her fellowship, she completed a Masters in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on optimizing the diagnosis and treatment of women with HIV in resource-limited settings.
She is currently involved in the Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES) program in western Kenya, a series of HIV care and treatment centers funded by the CDC, as part of a collaboration between UCSF and the Kenya Medical Research Institute. She designed and implemented a cervical cancer screening and treatment program for the HIV-infected women receiving care at the clinic, using resource appropriate screening strategies. Through this screening program, she is conducting a prospective cohort study to determine the effect of HAART on the recurrence of precancerous lesions. She is also looking at several other operational questions to determine the optimal way to scale-up cervical cancer screening and gynecologic services to women in western Kenya. She will be based in Kisumu, Kenya, where she will coordinate research and training programs related to women’s health care at FACES.
Areas of Interest:
- HIV and HPV co-infection
- Cervical Cancer Screening in Resource Limited Settings
- Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
- Gender Based Violence
- Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV
Publications on PubMed
Updated June 2009