Jorge Salazar, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

I am an Assistant Professor in the Division of HIV, ID and Global Medicine based at San Francisco General Hospital.

Education & Training

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• Infectious Diseases Fellowship Infectious Diseases University of California, San Francisco 2025
• Internal Medicine Residency Internal Medicine University of California, Davis 2021
• MD Meharry Medical College 2018
• BS Biology The Ohio State University 2014

Publications (11)

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Needle SharingBasidiomycotaPoliceHIV InfectionsSubstance Abuse, IntravenousTrichosporonosisToesCitiesSubstance-Related DisordersAnti-HIV AgentsMexicoDrug UsersTrichosporonSafety-net ProvidersViral Load

• Tuberculosis Infection Screening Recommendations for Targeted Immunotherapies: Comparison of US Prescribing Information, Clinical Resources, and Quality Measures.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2026 Murrill MT, Velásquez GE, Szumowski JD, Phillips A, Kim A, Yazdany J, Roberts ET, Habib AR, Batlle HR, Salazar J, Minter DJ, Louie JK, Ernst JD
• Effects of a Sequential Community-Based Multi Component HIV Intervention on Sexual Behavior, Drug Use and Syringe Sharing for People Who Inject Drugs on the US-Mexico Border: A Quasi-Experimental Study.
  AIDS and behavior 2025 Lechuga J, Perez G, Dickson-Gomez J, Ortiz A, Ramos L, Puentes J, Varela A, Beltran O, Sauceda J, Ludwig-Barron N, Salazar J, Esparza O, Pinto JF, Ramos R, Ramos ME, Project Encuentro CAB
• Outcomes of Rapid Restart Among People With Previously Diagnosed HIV at a Safety-Net HIV Clinic in San Francisco.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2025 Salazar J, Coffey S, Bloome J, Hickey MD, Fleming L, Franco S, Suarez A, Havlir D, Sauceda JA, Gandhi M, Christopoulos KA
• Tuberculosis infection screening recommendations for targeted immunotherapies: comparison of U.S. prescribing information, clinical resources and quality measures.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Murrill MT, Velásquez GE, Szumowski JD, Phillips A, Kim A, Yazdany J, Roberts ET, Habib AR, Batlle HR, Salazar J, Minter DJ, Louie JK, Ernst JD
• The HIV Index Is Associated With Retention in Care Among Latinx Persons Living With HIV in the CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems Cohort.
  AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 2024 Salazar J, Lisha NE, Neilands TB, Ludwig-Barron N, Johnson MO, Cachay ER, Napravnik S, Crane HM, Moore RD, Fredericksen RJ, Mayer KH, Christopoulos KA, Sauceda JA

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• The Brief Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Index: A Rapid 3-Item Scale to Measure Engagement in HIV Care.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2023 Sauceda JA, Lisha NE, Ludwig-Barron N, Salazar J, Dilworth SE, Johnson MO, Christopoulos KA, Koester KA, Moore RD, Mayer KH, Fredericksen RJ, Mugavero MJ, Neilands TB
• Institutional violence from police militarization and drug cartel wars as a 'Big Event' and its influence on drug use harms and HIV risk in people who inject drugs on the U.S.-Mexico border.
  The International journal on drug policy 2023 Lechuga J, Ramos R, Dickson-Gomez J, Beachy S, Perez G, Nevola O, Varela A, Ramos ME, Sauceda J, Ludwig-Barrron N, Salazar J
• Demonstration Project of Long-Acting Antiretroviral Therapy in a Diverse Population of People With HIV.
  Annals of internal medicine 2023 Gandhi M, Hickey M, Imbert E, Grochowski J, Mayorga-Munoz F, Szumowski JD, Oskarsson J, Shiels M, Sauceda J, Salazar J, Dilworth S, Nguyen JQ, Glidden DV, Havlir DV, Christopoulos KA
• Social and environmental determinants influencing injection drug use and HIV risk among two sister cities on the US-Mexico border: a comparative cross-sectional study, 2016-2018.
  Harm reduction journal 2023 Lechuga J, Ramos R, Ludwig-Barron N, Perez G, Ramos ME, Ferreira-Pinto JB, Cordero JI, Sauceda J, Salazar J
• A factorial experiment grounded in the multiphase optimization strategy to promote viral suppression among people who inject drugs on the Texas-Mexico border: a study protocol.
  BMC public health 2023 Sauceda JA, Lechuga J, Ramos ME, Puentes J, Ludwig-Barron N, Salazar J, Christopoulos KA, Johnson MO, Gomez D, Covarrubias R, Hernandez J, Montelongo D, Ortiz A, Rojas J, Ramos L, Avila I, Gwadz MV, …
• Trichosporonosis Presenting as an Exophytic Cutaneous Mass Lesion.
  Mycopathologia 2020 Salazar J, Hardin KA, Wiederhold NP, Thompson GR