Elliott Welford, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Elliott Welford is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases with specific interest and expertise in HIV. He received his MD from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and completed residency training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where he was also Chief Resident.

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He completed Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego before joining faculty at UCSF. He maintains an HIV primary care clinic at UCSF 360 Wellness Center and is a consultant on the inpatient infectious diseases services at Parnassus, Mission Bay and Mount Zion. His academic interests include diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections as well as undergraduate and graduate medical education.

Awards

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• Gold Humanism Honor Society, 2015

Education & Training

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• Infectious Disease University of California, San Diego 06/2022
• Chief Resident University of Cincinnati Medical Center 2019
• Internal Medicine University of Cincinnati Medical Center 06/2018
• MD Medicine University of Mississippi Medical Center 05/2015
• BS Microbiology Mississippi State University 05/2011

Interests

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• Sexually Transmitted Infections
• HIV
• General Infectious Disease
• Medical Education

Publications (6)

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Homosexuality, MaleAdultGonorrheaHumansFemaleProspective StudiesChlamydia InfectionsNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesTransgender PersonsPoint-of-Care TestingCaliforniaChlamydia trachomatisMaleCost-Benefit AnalysisNeisseria gonorrhoeae

• Relative Cost and Infectious Days Averted Associated With Rapid Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Testing Among Men Who Have Sex With Men.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2024 Welford E, Martin TCS, Martin NK, Tilghman W, Little SJ
• Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  The Diagnosis of Subarachnoid Neurocysticercosis Is Often Delayed And Other Findings of a Multicenter Retrospective in the USA 2023 Janitzio J. Guzmán, MD; Jesica A. Herrick, MD, MS; Timothy Hatlen, MD; Jill E. Weatherhead, MD, MSc; Eva Clark, MD, PhD; Jose Serpa, MD, MS;…
• Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  FACEing Infectious Disease Fellows: Growing and Culturing Clinician Educators 2022 Elliott Welford, MD; Anand D. Jagannath, MD, MS; Darcy Wooten, MD, MS
• Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  A Case Series of Low-Level HBV Viremia After Switching to Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir/Rilpivirine in Patients with HIV, Hepatitis B Core Antibody Positivity, and Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Negativity 2022 Elliott Welford, MD; Jeffrey Yin, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP2; Lucas Hill, PharmD, AAHIVP2; Darcy Wooten, MD, MS
• Evaluation of an Infectious Diseases Elective for Early Clinical Medical Students on Their Internal Medicine Clerkship.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2022 Sigler R, Roberts E, Welford E, Keehner J, Wooten D
• What If We Were Equal: A Mississippi Health Assessment
  What If We Were Equal: A Mississippi Health Assessment 2010 Cosby, Arthur G; Jones, Warren A; Jones, Lindsay B; Shivaji, Sangeetha; Greenberg, Robert E; McKee, Colleen; Morgan, Tara; Nations, Emily; Neaves, Tonya T; Welford, Elliott; and Smith, Bailey