Associate Professor
University of California San Diego
San Diego, CA, United States
Jill Blumenthal (she/her/hers), MD MAS, serves an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health in the Department of Medicine at UC San Diego Health. She went to college, medical school and residency at Cornell in New York and completed her Infectious Diseases fellowship at UCSD in 2014. She is Board-certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine. She conducts clinical research on HIV prevention using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in cisgender men who have sex with men, cisgender women and transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) individuals at risk for HIV. She cares for adolescents and adults living with HIV and is the Director of PrEP Services at the Owen Clinic. In 2018, she co-founded the Transgender Community Advisory Board to help engage and empower the TGNB community in research. Jill also provides gender-affirming care for TGNB individuals at the Owen Clinic and is the co-Medical Director of Gender Health Program at UC San Diego Health. Jill serves as co-chair of the UC San Diego Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Issues and was a 2022 UCSD LEAD (Leaders for Equity Advancement and Diversity) Fellow, campus champions who engage and lead crucial conversations around improving organizational learning and campus climate. Her approach to medical care and research emphasizes the importance of person-centered harm reduction principles and treatment as prevention in patients made vulnerable by the effects of systemic health disparities.
Disclosure(s): Gilead FOCUS: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Gilead Sciences: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
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