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Cherrie B. Boyer, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Director of Interdisciplinary Training
Contact Info
Cherrie B. Boyer, Ph.D. is a Professor in Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. She is an internationally recognized health psychologist with 21 years of teaching and research experience in the area of adolescent and young adult health. Dr. Boyer has experience in teaching, training, and mentoring students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, medicine, nursing, nutrition and social work. Dr. Boyer served as the Director of Interdisciplinary Training for the Division of Adolescent’s Medicine Maternal and Child Health Bureau-funded Leadership Education in Adolescent Health training program. She is currently the Associate Director for Research and Academic Affairs for the Division of Adolescent Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Boyer has been the recipient of many research grant awards and has published widely on adolescent risk behaviors and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Dr. Boyer’s research focuses on biopsychosocial antecedents of sexual risk behaviors and the role that these factors play in STIs, and their sequelae. She also has extensive experience in developing and evaluating cognitive-behavioral, skill-building interventions and community-level programs to prevent and reduce the risk of STIs/HIV in adolescents and young adults in a variety of settings, including schools, teen and STD clinics, and community- and venue-based settings in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as nationally and internationally with military recruits and personnel.
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| Graduate |
State University of New York, Stony Brook |
PhD |
| Post Doctoral School |
University of California, San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry, Health Psychology Program |
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| Other Degrees |
State University of New York, Stony Brook |
MA |
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| 1977-1978 | Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society |
| 1978 | Cum Laude, Spelman College |
| 1978 | Who's Who among American College and University Students |
| 1983 |
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Award |
| 1985 |
Letter of Commendation for Research, Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| 1985-1987 |
National Research Service Award, National Institute of Mental Health |
| 1993-1995 |
Grant Supplement, Underrepresented Minorities in Biomedical Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health |
| 1998 |
Palm Award, Southeastern Region “Best in Show” (over 1,000 entries),
Educational Video: "Liberty Brief", Produced by Paradise Video, Miami, FL |
| 2006 |
Spelman College Alumnae Achievement Award in Health and Sciences |
| 2008 |
Spring 2008 UCSF-CORO Faculty Leadership Collaborative |
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| 1990- | American Psychological Association |
| 1990- |
Society for Adolescent Medicine |
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Society for Research on Adolescence |
| 1990- |
Society for Behavioral Medicine |
| 1998-2001 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 1996 |
Society for Pediatric Research (elected) |
| 2008- |
Spelman College Alumnae Achievement Award in Health and Sciences |
| 2000 |
Spring 2008 UCSF-CORO Faculty Leadership Collaborative |
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A randomized-controlled, cognitive-behavioral intervention trial to prevent and reduce risk for STIs, unintended pregnancies, alcohol and other substance misuse, and exposure to or involvement with intimate partner sexual violence among junior enlisted military personnel – Principal Investigator
An Adolescent Trials Network (ATN) multisite study to explore the feasibility and acceptability of a friendship-based, same-sex recruitment strategy for identifying new HIV infections in Latina and African American adolescent and young adult women who self-disclose being HIV positive, HIV negative, HIV status unknown (ATN 067) – Principal Investigator
An ATN multisite study to identify and describe the male sexual partners of adolescent and young adult women enrolled in ATN 067- Co-Principal Investigator
An ATN multisite Phase III study to initiate and complete a community mobilization intervention aimed at ultimately reducing HIV incidence and prevalence among youth. The intervention will consist of guiding Connect-to-Protect (C2P) coalitions through a strategic planning process that will result in the development and implementation of a local action plan. The action plan will focus on changing structural elements of the affected communities that are believed to be associated with youth HIV acquisition and transmission- Co-Investigator
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| Community Adolescent STD Advisory Committee, San Francisco |
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| Department of Public Health, STD Prevention and Control Branch |
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