Anal Cancer Screening and Prevention: Diagnosis, Treatment and Helpful Tips for HIV Providers
Naomi Jay, RN, NP, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing, UCSF School of Nursing
Anal Dysplasia Clinic, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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Naomi Jay is a nurse practitioner in the UCSF Division of Medicine. A New Yorker by birth, she completed high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and her undergraduate work at McGill University in Montreal. After a S-year sojourn in lsrael growing wine grapes on Kibbutz Gezer, she attended graduate school at the Massachusetts General Hospital lnstitute of Health Professions where she received a Masters in Nursing, specializing in Women's Health in 1989. She then completed her doctorate in nursing at UCSF in 2007. Since 1991 she has worked in San Francisco with Drs. Palefsky and Berry, pioneering the use of the colposcope in the detection and diagnosis of HPV-related diseases in the anal canal. She has also worked in cervical HPV clinical studies of adolescents and young women. She currently divides her time between a busy practice in the UCSF Dysplasia Clinic, where she is a provider of colposcopy and high-resolution anoscopy, and HPV-related research trials which have included the natural history of HPV-related anal disease in men and women, and treatment studies using vaccines, infrared coagulation, and topical medications.
At the completion of this educational session, learners will:
- Know current approaches to anal cancer screening.
- Be aware of current and emerging prevention and treatment strategies.
- Learn helpful tips for improving screening and treatment skills by HIV providers.
This PRN CME activity is funded in part by unrestricted educational grants from:
Gilead Sciences, Janssen Therapeutics, and Merck & Co.
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