Paul Adamson, MD
Paul Adamson MD, MPH is a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he specializes in Infectious Diseases. He went to medical school at the UC San Francisco School of Medicine and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at UCLA. His interests include public health, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV prevention. Currently, his research is primarily focused on improving the diagnosis and treatment of STIs among key populations in global health settings, with an emphasis in antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. He also participates in a variety of COVID-19 related research and advocacy projects. He is a clinical provider at the UCLA CARE Center, where he focuses on the prevention and treatment of HIV and other STIs.
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS:
1. Adamson, P. C., Hieu, V. N., Nhung, P. H., Whiley, D. M., & Chau, T. M. (2024). Ceftriaxone resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae associated with the penA-60.001 allele in Hanoi, Viet Nam. The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 24(6), e351–e352. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(24)00230-5
2. Bristow, C. C., Mortimer, T. D., Morris, S., Grad, Y. H., Soge, O. O., Wakatake, E., Pascual, R., Murphy, S. M., Fryling, K. E., Adamson, P. C., Dillon, J. A., Parmar, N. R., Le, H. H. L., Van Le, H., Ovalles Ureña, R. M., Mitchev, N., Mlisana, K., Wi, T., Dickson, S. P., & Klausner, J. D. (2023). Whole-Genome Sequencing to Predict Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiles in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The Journal of infectious diseases, 227(7), 917–925. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiad027
3. Adamson, P. C., Bui, H. T. M., Kesteman, T., Nguyen, D. T. N., Nguyen, T. T. H., Van Le, T., van Doorn, R. H., Klausner, J. D., & Le, G. M. (2023). Screening for monkeypox virus infections in men who have sex with men in a sexual health clinic in Hanoi, Viet Nam. The Lancet. Microbe, 4(4), e201–e202. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00385-8