Katherine Hsu

Dr. Katherine Hsu is the Medical Director for the Division of STD Prevention & HIV/AIDS Surveillance, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the Director of the Ratelle STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, one of eight STD clinical training centers funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  She is also Professor of Pediatrics and Attending Physician in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Boston University Medical Center.  Dr. Hsu graduated from Brown University School of Medicine in 1995, completed pediatric residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in 1998, and completed fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Boston University Medical Center in 2001.  She also completed a second STD Prevention Fellowship jointly sponsored by the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2003, and received her Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health in 2005.

She was a recipient of the Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society’s Edward H. Kass Award for Clinical Excellence During Fellowship in 2001.  She is board certified in the areas of Pediatrics and Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Hsu’s research interests include vaccine-preventable diseases and prevention of sexually transmitted infections, and she has published in various scientific journals, including Vaccine, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Lancet HIV, PLoS Medicine, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, American Journal of Epidemiology, and American Journal of Public Health.