“Mobile Healthcare Delivery Interventions to Improve Access to HIV and Substance Use Disorder Prevention and Treatment in the Community”
Presented by CIRA's Dissemination and Implementation Science Methods (DISM) Core & R3EDI
Sandra Ann Springer, MD
- Professor of Medicine (AIDS) and Associate Clinical Professor of Nursing
- Yale School of Medicine
Sandra Springer, MD is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases at the Yale School of Medicine. She received an A.B from Harvard College; an MD from University of Massachusetts Medical School; and completed her internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. She is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Addiction Medicine and is the Director of the Infectious Disease Clinic at the Newington site of the Veterans Administration Connecticut Healthcare System. She is an appointed member of the International Antiviral Society–USA (IAS–USA) Antiretroviral Guidelines Panel as well as a Core Faculty member with IAS-USA, and she has been appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on the Framework for the Consideration of Chronic Conditions in Women and to the Committee on the Examination of the Integration of Opioid and Infectious Disease Prevention Efforts in Select Programs. Her research centers on the integration of substance use and infectious diseases with a focus on opioid use disorder treatment and the treatment and prevention of HIV infection. In 2022, she was awarded a NIDA Avant Garde award for her innovative proposal to bring mobile health care for substance use and infectious diseases to where people live, through a mobile pharmacy and clinic. She has published over 150 manuscripts and book chapters. She is the director of her clinical research lab InSTRIDE (Integrating Substance use Treatment Research with Infectious Disease for Everyone) which encompasses a multidisciplinary team including research staff, clinicians, community health workers, and patient navigators as well as a mobile health unit and a mobile pharmacy and clinic. https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/springer/