Megan Huchko, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

Email: megan.huchko@ucsf.edu

Biosketch:

Megan Huchko, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.  She received her medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her ob-gyn training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City.  She completed a Reproductive Infectious Disease Fellowship and a traineeship in AIDS Prevention Studies at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at UCSF.  During the first year of her fellowship, she completed a Masters in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.  Her research focuses on optimizing the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer among women with HIV in resource-limited settings, including validating screening and treatment strategies and looking at structural and contextual factors related to screening access.

She is currently involved in the Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES) program in western Kenya, a series of HIV care and treatment centers funded by the CDC, as part of a collaboration between UCSF and the Kenya Medical Research Institute.  She designed and implemented a cervical cancer screening and treatment program for the HIV-infected women receiving care at the clinic, using resource appropriate screening strategies. She is following a cohort of these women to determine overall treatment efficacy, impact of immunosuppression on short and longterm outcomes, and the effect of HAART on the recurrence of precancerous lesions.  She is completing a four-year NIH-career development award in which she validated two low-cost visual inspection techniques to screen for cervical cancer.  In addition, she received the 2011 Landon Foundation-AACR INNOVATOR Award for Cancer Prevention Research for work on a protein biomarker for cervical cancer screening among HIV-infected women.

More recently, Dr. Huchko’s work has focused on strategies to improve the delivery of evidence-proven screening and treatment strategies.  Her team validated an educational intervention to inrease knowledge and decrease stigma around cervical cancer in order to increase screening uptake.  She is evaluating various models of service delivery, including integration with other health care services and periodic screening through community campaigns.

Areas of Interest:

• HIV and HPV co-infection
• Cervical Cancer Screening in Resource Limited Settings
• Gender Based Violence
• Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV
• Implementation Science

For a complete list of publications, please click here: Publications on PubMed

Updated November 2013

Citations:

• Woo VG, Liegler T, Cohen CR, Sawaya GF, Smith-McCune K, Bukusi EA, Huchko MJ. Association of Cervical Biopsy with HIV Type 1 Genital Shedding Among Women on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy. AIDS Research & Human Retroviruses. 2013:7(29):1000-5.
• Woo VG, Cohen CR, Bukusi EA, Huchko MJ. Direct questioning is more effective than patient-initiated report for the detection of sexually transmitted infections in a primary care HIV clinic in Western Kenya. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 2013 :2(40):158-61.
• Woo VG, Cohen CR, Bukusi EA, Huchko MJ. Loop electrosurgical excision procedure: safety and tolerability among human immunodeficiency virus-positive Kenyan women. Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2011:3(118):554-9.