Dean Vincent Guilamo-Ramos and Marco Thimm-Kaiser, associate in research, were interviewed by Tara Haelle for the Medscape article "Achieving a 'New Sexual-Health Paradigm' Means Expanding STI Care." 

Important Points to Know

• Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a growing public health challenge, yet, due to limitations on the current STI workforce and limited federal funding and support for STI prevention and care, clinicians of all specialities will be called upon to meet this challenge. 
• It is proposed to make a holistic approach to sexual health a more normalized part of health care.
• More than 200 million Americans live in counties with no practicing infectious disease physicians, with the disparity the greatest in Southern states, which also account for 40 percent of all reported STIs.
• Prevention is crucial as well as is sexual health destigmatization and sexual health education.
• It would be possible for generalists to better to serve patients regarding their sexual health after undergoing professional training and licensing and implementing practice guidelines.

More about Medspace Article

The article references the studies:

• "The National Academies Report on Sexually Transmitted Infections: Implications for Clinical Training, Licensing, and Practice Guidelines" in "Clinical Infectious Diseases" 
  • DUSON authors: Guilamo-Ramos, Thimm-Kaiser and Adam Benzekri, associate in research
  • Citation: Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Marco Thimm-Kaiser, Adam Benzekri, Aimee Mead, Edward W Hook, III, Cornelis A Rietmeijer, The National Academies Report on Sexually Transmitted Infections: Implications for Clinical Training, Licensing, and Practice Guidelines, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021;, ciab609, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab609
• "Sexually Transmitted Infections: Adopting a Sexual Health Paradigm (2021)" 
  • DUSON authors: Guilamo-Ramos 
  • Citation: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Sexually transmitted infections: Adopting a sexual health paradigm. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25955