Ina Park, MD

Associate Professor,

Family Community Medicine

+1 510 620-3400

As a UCSF faculty member I am honored to demonstrate my interest for STIs through research, teaching, and patient care. I currently serve as the Medical Director for the California Prevention Training Center and am the site PI for the multicenter CDC-funded HPV-Impact project,which monitors the population-level effects of HPV vaccination.

Nationally I am proud to serve as a medical consultant to the CDC Division of STD Prevention and recently co-authored the 2020 CDC STI Treatment Guidelines. I also served as a committee member of the HHS's first Federal STI Action Plan and serving a two year term with the Planned Parenthood Foundation of America National Medical Committee.

Currently my passions lie in using storytelling and public engagement to fight the lingering stigma towards STIs. My first book for the lay public is entitled Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STIs. (Macmillan Feb 2021) Read more about me and the book here: www.inapark.net

Publications:

U.S. Women with Invasive Cervical Cancer: Characteristics and Potential Barriers to Prevention.

Journal of women's health (2002)

Rosenblum HG, Gargano JW, Cleveland AA, Dahl RM, Park IU, Whitney E, Castilho JL, Sackey E, Niccolai LM, Brackney M, Debess E, Ehlers S, Bennett NM, Kurtz R, Unger ER, Markowitz LE

Evaluation of Three Automated Nontreponemal Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) Tests for the Laboratory Diagnosis of Syphilis.

Journal of clinical microbiology

Shukla MR, Pereira L, Gaynor AM, Sun Y, Edwards D, Simmons T, Andrews CW, Park IU, Hong J, Cao W, Kersh EN, Fakile Y

HPV type-specific trends in cervical precancers in the United States, 2008-2016.

International journal of cancer

Gargano JW, McClung N, Lewis RM, Park IU, Whitney E, Castilho JL, Pemmaraju M, Niccolai LM, Brackney M, Debess E, Ehlers S, Bennett NM, Scahill M, Cleveland AA, Querec TD, Unger ER, Markowitz LE, HPV-IMPACT Working Group

Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening in Key Populations of Persons Living with HIV.

AIDS and behavior

Hojilla JC, Sarovar V, Lam JO, Park IU, Vincent W, Hare CB, Silverberg MJ, Satre DD

Characteristics of the Audience Reached by the National Network of Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinical Prevention Training Centers and Correlation With Sexually Transmitted Infection Rates, 2015 to 2020.

Sexually transmitted diseases

Hauschild BC, Burnside HC, Gray BA, Johnston C, Neu N, Park IU, Reno HEL, Rompalo A, Van Wagoner N, Wendel KA, Coor A, Tromble E, Rietmeijer CA, from the National Evaluation Center, National Network of STD Clinical Prevention Training Centers

Improved gonorrhea and chlamydia testing among men who have sex with men living with HIV through implementation of self-collected tests.

Sexually transmitted diseases

Park IU, Reminick D, Schapiro JM, Hurley LB, Hare CB, Slome S, Flamm JA, Anderson A, Silverberg MJ, Allerton MW

Congenital syphilis: a case report demonstrating missed opportunities for screening and inadequate treatment despite multiple healthcare encounters during pregnancy.

Sexually transmitted diseases

Fukuda A, Katz AR, Park IU, Komeya AY, Chang A, Ching N, Tomas JE, Wasserman GM

Increases in Human Papillomavirus Testing Preceding Diagnosis of Cervical Precancer in 5 US States, 2008-2016.

Journal of lower genital tract disease

Knowing What We Don't Know: Analysis of an Online Consultation Service to Identify Provider Knowledge Gaps in STD Care.

Sexually transmitted diseases

Plotzker RE, Hauschild BC, Kelley D, Blakley LA, Park IU

Sensitivity and Specificity of Treponemal-specific Tests for the Diagnosis of Syphilis.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Park IU, Tran A, Pereira L, Fakile Y

Effectiveness of 1, 2, AND 3 Human Papillomavirus Vaccine doses against HPV-16/18 positive High-grade Cervical Lesions.

American journal of epidemiology

Johnson Jones ML, Gargano JW, Powell M, Park IU, Niccolai LM, Bennett NM, Griffin MR, Querec T, Unger ER, Markowitz LE

962. Trends in Cervical Pre-cancers by Race and Ethnicity During the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Era, HPV Vaccine Impact Monitoring Project (HPV-IMPACT), United States, 2008–2016.

Cervical determinants of anal HPV infection and high-grade anal lesions in women: a collaborative pooled analysis.

The Lancet. Infectious diseases

Lin C, Slama J, Gonzalez P, Goodman MT, Xia N, Kreimer AR, Wu T, Hessol NA, Shvetsov Y, Ortiz AP, Grinsztejn B, Moscicki AB, Heard I, Del Refugio González Losa M, Kojic EM, Schim van der Loeff MF, Wei F, Longatto-Filho A, Mbulawa ZA, Palefsky JM, Sohn AH, Hernandez BY, Robison K, Simpson S, Conley LJ, de Pokomandy A, van der Sande MAB, Dube Mandishora RS, Volpini LPB, Pierangeli A, Romero B, Wilkin T, Franceschi S, Hidalgo-Tenorio C, Ramautarsing RA, Park IU, Tso FK, Godbole S, D'Hauwers KWM, Sehnal B, Menezes LJ, Heráclio SA, Clifford GM

Cervical adenocarcinoma in situ: Human papillomavirus types and incidence trends in five states, 2008-2015.

International journal of cancer

Cleveland AA, Gargano JW, Park IU, Griffin MR, Niccolai LM, Powell M, Bennett NM, Saadeh K, Pemmaraju M, Higgins K, Ehlers S, Scahill M, Johnson Jones ML, Querec T, Markowitz LE, Unger ER

Estimated Number of Cases of High-Grade Cervical Lesions Diagnosed Among Women - United States, 2008 and 2016.

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report

McClung NM, Gargano JW, Park IU, Whitney E, Abdullah N, Ehlers S, Bennett NM, Scahill M, Niccolai LM, Brackney M, Griffin MR, Pemmaraju M, Querec TD, Cleveland AA, Unger ER, Markowitz LE

Trends in anogenital wart incidence among Tennessee Medicaid enrollees, 2006-2014: The impact of human papillomavirus vaccination.

Papillomavirus research (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Shing JZ, Hull PC, Zhu Y, Gargano JW, Markowitz LE, Cleveland AA, Pemmaraju M, Park IU, Whitney E, Mitchel EF, Griffin MR

Trends in High-grade Cervical Lesions and Cervical Cancer Screening in Five States, 2008-2015.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Gargano JW, Park IU, Griffin MR, Niccolai LM, Powell M, Bennett NM, Johnson Jones ML, Whitney E, Pemmaraju M, Brackney M, Abdullah N, Scahill M, Dahl RM, Cleveland AA, Unger ER, Markowitz LE

Performance of the Syphilis Health Check™ in Clinic and Laboratory-based Settings.

Sexually transmitted diseases

Fakile YF, Brinson M, Mobley V, Park IU, Gaynor AM

Performance of treponemal tests for the diagnosis of syphilis.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Park IU, Fakile YF, Chow JM, Gustafson KJ, Jost H, Schapiro JM, Novak-Weekley S, Tran A, Nomura JH, Chen V, Beheshti M, Tsai T, Hoover K, Bolan G

Trends in Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Types 16 and 18 in Cervical Precancers, 2008-2014.

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology

McClung NM, Gargano JW, Bennett NM, Niccolai LM, Abdullah N, Griffin MR, Park IU, Cleveland AA, Querec TD, Unger ER, Markowitz LE

152 Using “Lean” rapid-quality improvement (QI) to Increase Adolescent Chlamydia Screening Rates in a Large Pediatric Clinic: A Strategy for Engaging Primary Care in Public Health QI Priorities.

Correlation of Treponemal Immunoassay Signal Strength Values with Reactivity of Confirmatory Treponemal Testing.

Journal of clinical microbiology

Fakile YF, Jost H, Hoover KW, Gustafson KJ, Novak-Weekley SM, Schapiro JM, Tran A, Chow JM, Park IU

Cervical Adenocarcinoma in Situ in the United States: Results from Population-based Laboratory Surveillance, 2008–2014.

A Case of Persistent and Possibly Treatment Resistant Pharyngeal Gonorrhea.

Sexually transmitted diseases

Levy V, Pandori M, Berrada ZL, Relucio KI, Lopez TP, Samuel MC, Park IU

Interventions to Improve Sexually Transmitted Disease Screening in Clinic-Based Settings.

Sexually transmitted diseases

Taylor MM, Frasure-Williams J, Burnett P, Park IU

Human Papillomavirus and Genital Warts: A Review of the Evidence for the 2015 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Park IU, Introcaso C, Dunne EF

Performance of the InTray GC System Versus Modified Thayer-Martin Agar for Diagnosis of Urethral Gonorrhea.

Improvement of Sexually Transmitted Disease Screening Among HIV-Infected Men Who Have Sex With Men Through Implementation of a Standardized Sexual Risk Assessment Tool.

Sexually transmitted diseases

Scarborough AP, Slome S, Hurley LB, Park IU

002.5 Evaluation of five rapid point-of-care tests for syphilis: two treponemal only, and three dual treponemal/hiv assays.

Monitoring Effect of Human Papillomavirus Vaccines in US Population, Emerging Infections Program, 2008-2012.

Emerging infectious diseases

Hariri S, Markowitz LE, Bennett NM, Niccolai LM, Schafer S, Bloch K, Park IU, Scahill MW, Julian P, Abdullah N, Levine D, Whitney E, Unger ER, Steinau M, Bauer HM, Meek J, Hadler J, Sosa L, Powell SE, Johnson ML, Hpv-Impact Working Group

Population-based trends in high-grade cervical lesions in the early human papillomavirus vaccine era in the United States.

Cancer

Hariri S, Johnson ML, Bennett NM, Bauer HM, Park IU, Schafer S, Niccolai LM, Unger ER, Markowitz LE

Discordant Syphilis Immunoassays in Pregnancy: Perinatal Outcomes and Implications for Clinical Management.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Mmeje O, Chow JM, Davidson L, Shieh J, Schapiro JM, Park IU

Cytology and human papillomavirus co-test results preceding incident high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.

PloS one

Park IU, Wojtal N, Silverberg MJ, Bauer HM, Hurley LB, Manos MM

Reduction in HPV 16/18-associated high grade cervical lesions following HPV vaccine introduction in the United States - 2008-2012.

Vaccine

Hariri S, Bennett NM, Niccolai LM, Schafer S, Park IU, Bloch KC, Unger ER, Whitney E, Julian P, Scahill MW, Abdullah N, Levine D, Johnson ML, Steinau M, Markowitz LE

HPV type attribution in high-grade cervical lesions: assessing the potential benefits of vaccines in a population-based evaluation in the United States.

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology

Hariri S, Unger ER, Schafer S, Niccolai LM, Park IU, Bloch KC, Bennett NM, Steinau M, Johnson ML, Markowitz LE