Katherine Hsu

After completing her residency at Columbia‐Presbyterian Medical Center, Katherine Hsu, MD, began her fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Disease at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. During this period she was awarded the Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society Edward H. Kass Award for Clinical Excellence During Fellowship. Nineteen years later, she is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Adolescent Medicine. In addition to her work in the school of medicine, she serves Medical Director in the Division of STD Prevention & HIV/AIDS Surveillance as a part of the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Her research interests are sexually transmitted diseases and syndromes in adolescents and young adults, infectious diseases in adolescents and young adults, post-sexual assault care in adolescents and young adults, and vaccine preventable diseases in adolescents and young adults.

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Rönn, M., Chesson, H., Grad, Y., Reitsma, M., Zhu, L., Hsu, K., Gift, T., & Salomon, J. (2025). The influence of epidemiological context on the success of partner notification programs: Analysis of gonorrhea transmission dynamics. Journal of Infectious Disease. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf206
Yin, X., Li, Y., Ronn, M., Li, S., Yuan, Y., Gift, T., Hsu, K., Salomon, J., Grad, Y., & Yaesoubi, R. (2024). Assessing thresholds of resistance prevalence at which empiric treatment of gonorrhea should change among men who have sex with men in the US: A cost-effectiveness analysis. PLOS Medicine, 21(7), e1004424. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004424
Oliveira Roster, K., Rönn, M., Elder, H., Gift, T., Roosevelt, K., Salomon, J., Hsu, K., & Grad, Y. (2024). Estimating the undetected burden and the likelihood of strain persistence of drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae. American Journal of Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae455
Li, Y., Rönn, M., Tuite, A., Chesson, H., Gift, T., Trikalinos, T., Testa, C., Bellerose, M., Hsu, K., Berruti, A., Malyuta, Y., Menzies, N., & Salomon, J. (2022). Estimated costs and quality-adjusted life-years lost due to N. gonorrhoeae infections acquired in 2015 in the United States: A modelling study of overall burden and disparities by age, race/ethnicity, and other factors. Lancet Regional Health Americas, 16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100364
Lee, K., You, S., Li, Y., Chesson, H., Gift, T., Berruti, A., Hsu, K., Yaesoubi, R., Salomon, J., & Rönn, M. (2022). Estimation of the lifetime quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) lost due to syphilis acquired in the United States in 2018. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 76(3), e810–e819. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac427
Yaesoubi, R., Cohen, T., Hsu, K., Gift, T., St Cyr , S., Salomon, J., & Grad, Y. (2022). Evaluating spatially adaptive guidelines for the treatment of gonorrhea to reduce the incidence of gonococcal infection and increase the effective lifespan of antibiotics. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009842
Yaesoubi, R., Cohen, T., Hsu, K., Gift, T., Chesson, H., Salomon, J., & Grad, Y. (2020). Adaptive guidelines for the treatment of gonorrhea to increase the effective life span of antibiotics among men who have sex with men in the United States: A mathematical modeling study. PLoS Medicine, 17(4), e1003077. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003077
Tuite, A., Testa, C., Rönn, M., Bellerose, M., Gift, T., Fridge, J., Molotnikov, L., Desmarais, C., Berruti, A., Menzies, N., Malyuta, Y., Hsu, K., & Salomon, J. (2020). Exploring how epidemic context influences syphilis screening impact: A mathematical modeling study. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 47(12), 798-810. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001249
Rönn, M., Dunville, R., Wang, L., Bellerose, M., Malyuta, Y., Menzies, N., Aslam, M., Lewis, F., Walker-Baban, C., Asbel, L., Parchem, S., Masinter, L., Perez, E., Gift, T., Hsu, K., Barrios, L., & Salomon, J. (2020). Mathematical modeling study of school-based chlamydia screening: Potential impact on chlamydia prevalence in intervention schools and surrounding communities. BMC Public Health, 20(1), 1363. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09466-y
Earnest, R., Rönn, M., Bellerose, M., Gift, T., Berruti, A., Hsu, K., Testa, C., Zhu, L., Malyuta, Y., Menzies, N., & Salomon, J. (2020). Population-level benefits of extragenital gonorrhea screening among men who have sex with men: An exploratory modeling analysis. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 47(7), 484-490. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001189
Rönn, M., Menzies, N., Gift, T., Chesson, H., Trikalinos, T., Bellerose, M., Malyuta, Y., Berruti, A., Gaydos, C., Hsu, K., & Salomon, J. (2020). Potential for point-of-care tests to reduce chlamydia-associated burden in the United States: A mathematical modeling analysis. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 70(9), 1816-1823. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz519
Rönn, M., Testa, C., Tuite, A., Chesson, H., Gift, T., Schumacher, C., Williford, S., Zhu, L., Bellerose, M., Earnest, R., Malyuta, Y., Hsu, K., Salomon, J., & Menzies, N. (2020). The potential population-level impact of different gonorrhea screening strategies in Baltimore and San Francisco: An exploratory mathematical modeling analysis. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 47(3), 143-150. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001108
Rönn, M., Tuite, A., Menzies, N., Wolf, E., Gift, T., Chesson, H., Torrone, E., Berruti, A., Mazzola, A., Galer, K., Hsu, K., & Salomon, J. (2019). The impact of screening and partner notification on chlamydia prevalence and numbers of infections averted in the United States, 2000–2015: Evaluation of epidemiologic trends using a pair-formation transmission model. American Journal of Epidemiology, 188(3), 545-554. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwy272
Tuite, A., Rönn, M., Wolf, E., Gift, T., Chesson, H., Berruti, A., Galer, K., Menzies, N., Hsu, K., & Salomon, J. (2018). Estimated impact of screening on gonorrhea epidemiology in the United States: Insights from a mathematical model. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 45(11), 713-722. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000876
Tuite, A., Gift, T., Chesson, H., Hsu, K., Salomon, J., & Grad, Y. (2017). Impact of rapid susceptibility testing and antibiotic selection strategy on the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance in gonorrhea. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 216(9), 1141-1149. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jix450
Neilan, A., Dunville, R., Ocfemia, M., Salomon, J., Francke, J., Wang, L., Bulteel, A., Hsu, K., DiNenno, E., Parker, R., & Walensky, R. (2017). Screening adolescents and young adults for HIV in the United States: A cost-effectiveness analysis. Journal of Adolescent Health, 60(2), S18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.10.055
Rönn, M., Wolf, E., Chesson, H., Menzies, N., Galer, K., Gorwitz, R., Gift, T., Hsu, K., & Salomon, J. (2017). The use of mathematical models of chlamydia transmission to address public health policy questions: A systematic literature review. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 44(5), 278-283. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000598