Rosalyn Plotzker, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine

Rosalyn completed a fellowship in Sexually Transmitted Diseases at UCSF and the California Department of Public Health where she also currently serves as a public health medical officer and clinical lead for congenital syphilis prevention and response. She also serves as clinical faculty for the California Prevention Training Center, which is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to educate providers on best practices in STD diagnosis and treatment, and leads efforts to improve HIV prevention and STD screening with the California Office of AIDS.

• Facilitators and Barriers of Implementing Expanded Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening in California Family Planning Clinics.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2024 Ehlers E, Kovaleski L, Devaskar S, Kennedy S, Plotzker RE
• International Anal Neoplasia Society's consensus guidelines for anal cancer screening.
  International journal of cancer 2024 Stier EA, Clarke MA, Deshmukh AA, Wentzensen N, Liu Y, Poynten IM, Cavallari EN, Fink V, Barroso LF, Clifford GM, Cuming T, Goldstone SE, Hillman RJ, Rosa-Cunha I, La Rosa L, Palefsky JM, Plotzker R, …
• Comparing 7-Day Versus 6-8-Day Penicillin Treatment Intervals Among Pregnant People With Syphilis of Late or Unknown Duration: No Difference Found in Incidence of Congenital Syphilis.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2023 Johnson KA, Burghardt NO, Snyder RE, Plotzker RE, Imp BM, Murphy R, Jacobson K, Tang EC
• Sexually Transmitted Human Papillomavirus: Update in Epidemiology, Prevention, and Management.
  Infectious disease clinics of North America 2023 Plotzker RE, Vaidya A, Pokharel U, Stier EA
• Geospatial Social Determinants of Health Correlate with Disparities in Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis Cases in California.
  Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 2022 Johnson KA, Snyder RE, Tang EC, de Guzman NS, Plotzker RE, Murphy R, Jacobson K
• Geospatial Social Determinants of Health Correlate with Disparities in Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis Cases in California
  Pathogens 2022 Johnson, K. A., Snyder, R. E., Tang, E. C., de Guzman, N. S., Plotzker, R. E., Murphy, R., & Jacobson, K.
• Congenital syphilis prevention in the context of methamphetamine use and homelessness.
  The American journal on addictions 2022 Plotzker RE, Burghardt NO, Murphy RD, McLean R, Jacobson K, Tang EC, Seidman D
• Provider preferences for anal cancer prevention screening: Results of the International Anal Neoplasia Society survey.
  Tumour virus research 2022 Plotzker RE, Barnell GM, Wiley DJ, Stier EA, Jay N
• Second and Third Trimester Fetal Death in the Setting of COVID-19: A California 2020 Case Series
  Maternal Fetal Medicine 2021 Plotzker, Rosalyn E., Similoluwa Sowunmi, Valorie Eckert, Emily Barnes, Van Ngo, Lauren J. Stockman, Chloe LeMarchand, and Umme-Aiman Halai.
• Second and Third Trimester Fetal Death in the Setting of COVID-19: A California 2020 Case Series.
  Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) 2021 Plotzker RE, Sowunmi S, Eckert V, Barnes E, Ngo V, Stockman LJ, LeMarchand C, Halai UA
• Measuring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sexually Transmitted Diseases Public Health Surveillance and Program Operations in the State of California.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2021 Johnson KA, Burghardt NO, Tang EC, Long P, Plotzker R, Gilson D, Murphy R, Jacobson K
• Neurosyphilis Surveillance: Exploring the Use of Multiple Data Sources to Better Understand Morbidity in California.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2021 Burghardt NO, Nelson LN, Tang EC, Plotzker RE, Jacobson K, Murphy RD
• Knowing What We Do Not Know: Analysis of an Online Consultation Service to Identify Provider Knowledge Gaps in Sexually Transmitted Disease Care.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2021 Plotzker RE, Hauschild BC, Kelley D, Blakley LA, Park IU
• SARS-CoV-2-Associated Deaths Among Persons Aged <21 Years - United States, February 12-July 31, 2020.
  MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2020 Bixler D, Miller AD, Mattison CP, Taylor B, Komatsu K, Peterson Pompa X, Moon S, Karmarkar E, Liu CY, Openshaw JJ, Plotzker RE, Rosen HE, Alden N, Kawasaki B, Siniscalchi A, Leapley A, Drenzek C, …
• Congenital Syphilis Prevention: Strategies, Evidence, and Future Directions.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2018 Plotzker RE, Murphy RD, Stoltey JE
• Importance of Risk Perception: Predictors of PrEP Acceptance Among Thai MSM and TG Women at a Community-Based Health Service.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2017 Plotzker R, Seekaew P, Jantarapakde J, Pengnonyang S, Trachunthong D, Linjongrat D, Janyam S, Nakpor T, Charoenying S, Mills S, Vannakit R, Cassell M, Phanuphak P, Lertpiriyasuwat C, Phanuphak N
• Childhood sexual and physical abuse histories, PTSD, depression, and HIV risk outcomes in women injection drug users: a potential mediating pathway.
  The American journal on addictions 2007 Plotzker RE, Metzger DS, Holmes WC