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Paula Lum, MD, MPH

Paula J. Lum, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor in Residence

Attending Physician, Positive Health Practice, San Francisco General Hospital

Research Interests
HIV and viral hepatitis in substance-using populations; HBV vaccine adherence and immune response in young adult IDU; acute HCV treatment in young IDU

Integrated HIV and addiction and pain treatment models of care; effective medical therapies (e.g., methadone, buprenorphine) to prevent disease transmission and improve HIV and HCV treatment outcomes; methamphetamines in HIV progression and pathogenesis

Select Publications

1) Lum PJ, Ochoa K, Hahn JA, Page-Shafer K, Evans J, Moss AR: Hepatitis B virus immunization among young injection drug users in San Francisco (The UFO Study). American Journal of Public Health. 2003; 93(6):919-923.
2) Lum PJ, Sears C, Guydish J: Injection risk behavior among women syringe exchangers in San Francisco. Substance Use Misuse. 2005; 40(11):1681-96.
3) Lum PJ, Tulsky JP: The medical management of opioid dependence in HIV primary care settings. Current HIV/AIDS Reports. 2006; 3(4):195-204.
4) Hahn JA, Page-Shafer K, Ford JL, Paciorek A, Lum PJ: Traveling young injection drug users at high risk for acquisition and transmission of viral infections. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2008; 93(1-2):43-50.
5) Lum PJ, Hahn JA, Page-Shafer K, Davidson PJ, Stein E, Evans JE, Moss AR: Hepatitis B virus infection and immunization status in a new generation of young injection drug users. Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 2008; 15, 229–236.

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Education & Training

B.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1985

M.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1985

M.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 1993

Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 1993-1996

M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley, 1996-1997

Training in AIDS Prevention Studies Fellowship, University of California at San Francisco, 1996-1999

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Diane Havlir, MD
Rick Hecht, MD
Laurence Huang, MD
Peter Hunt, MD
Mark Jacobson, MD
James Kahn, MD
Royce Lin, MD
Annie Luetkemeyer, MD
Paula Lum, MD, MPH
Meg Newman, MD
Chris Pilcher, MD
Jacqueline Tulsky, MD
Dan Wlodarczyk
Paul Baum, MD, PhD
Peter Chin-Hong, MD
Mitch Katz, MD
Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH
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