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Department
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Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine
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Hospital Title
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Associate Chief,
Division of Adolescent Medicine
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Academic Title
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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Phone
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617-355-7181
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617-730-0195
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Email
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Elizabeth Woods
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Location
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300 Longwood Avenue
333 Longwood-6
Boston MA 02215
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Elizabeth R. Woods' work focuses on improving delivery of medical care to an underserved population -- HIV-positive, homeless, and at-risk teens. The goals of her research are to develop ways to engage and sustain HIV-positive youth in care, so that they will adhere to complex treatment regimens and have access to clinical trials; and to improve patient-provider interaction to reduce HIV/STD risk-taking behaviors.
Dr. Woods and her colleagues have created a model of services for this population through the Boston HAPPENS Program, which provides HIV prevention, testing, care, and support to people ages 12-24. Boston HAPPENS also provides access to clinical trials for HIV-positive youth through the Adolescent Trial Network and the Pediatric AIDS Program. Dr. Woods is also investigating the impact of the provider-patient relationship on HIV prevention.
Dr. Woods is also involved in several quality-improvement projects -- including those to analyze the treatment of youth with asthma -- and is evaluating health services and access to health care for adolescents. She is the Director of the new Children's Hospital Boston Community Asthma Initiative that provides nurse case management and home visits for 2-18 year-old patients seen in the emergency room or admitted to the hospital, and live in the communities close to the hospital. In addition, she is the evaluator for the Young Parents Program which provides services and group support for young parents.
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Dr. Woods is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, the Associate Chief of the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Director of the Boston HAPPENS program for HIV positive and homeless youth, Director of the new Children's Hospital Boston's Community Asthma Program, and Chair of the Asthma Quality Improvement Program at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Woods has authored over 62 original publications and 16 authoritative reviews and chapters in the areas of adolescent quality improvement, health services research, program evaluation, adolescent risk behaviors, STDs, teen pregnancy, and HIV services and care. Dr. Woods has been the Director of Research for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau's (MCHB) Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) Project since 1992 and has extensive experience supervising the research and intervention projects of fellows and faculty members. Dr. Woods is the external Evaluator for the Young Parents Program's Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Program Grants, which offers comprehensive adolescent parenting services (1999-Present). She is the Adolescent Health Expert for the Robert Wood Johnson funded Infant Health and Development Project (2001-Present) and the Boston Pediatric Clinical Trials Unit (2003-present), and Co-I of the Boston Adolescent Trials Network Unit (2001-present). In addition, she has funding for a same grant from National Institute of Mental Health (2003-2005) to develop a new measure of provider-patient communication related to HIV/STDs care and prevention.
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- Woods ER, Klein JD, Wingood GM, Rose ES, Wypij D, Harris SK, and DiClemente RJ. Development of a new adolescent patient-provider interaction scale (APPIS) for youth at-risk for STDs/HIV. J Adolesc Health, June 2006;35(6);753.e.1-e.8.
- Woods ER, Obeidallah D, Sherry M, Ettinger S, Simms E, Dixon RR, Missal S, Cox JE. The Parenting Program for Teen Mothers: the impact of a nurturing curriculum on adolescent parenting skills and life hassles. Ambulatory Pediatrics 2003;3:240-245.
- Woods ER, Samples CL, Melchiono MW, Keenan PM, Fox DL, Harris SK. Initiation of services in the Boston HAPPENS Program: HIV-positive, homeless and at-risk youth can access services. AIDS Patient Care and STDS 2002; 16 (10): 497-510. Republished in Medication Adherence in HIV/AIDS, Jeffrey Lawrence (ed), 2004; 215-228.
- Harris SK, Samples CL, Keenan PM, Fox DJ, Melchiono MW, Woods ER. Outreach, mental health, and case management services: can they help to retain HIV-positive and at-risk youth in care? Maternal and Child Health 2003; 7(4): 205-218.
- Blake DR, Woods ER. The future is here: non-invasive diagnosis of vaginal, cervical, and urethral infections. Contemporary Pediatrics 2001;18(2);71-87.
- Woods ER, Neinstein LS. Office visit, interview techniques, and recommendations to parents. Eds: Neinstein, Gordon, Katzman, Rosen, Woods. Adolescent Health Care: A Practical Guide, 5th Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006, in press.
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