Erica Bisgyer Monasterio,
RN, MN, FNP-BC
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Nursing, Division of Adolescent Medicine and Department of Family Health Care Nursing

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Ms. Monasterio’s expertise is in working with high risk youth in community based settings and developing and monitoring primary care programs to serve marginalized youth. She is also a trainer whose focus has been training health care and social service professionals to increase their knowledge base, sensitivity and skills in working with adolescents, particularly in the areas of adolescent development, risk and resilience, sexuality, sexual minority youth, substance involvement and engaging in interventions to support youth in modifying their own risk. Her special interests are the integration of behavioral health and sexual health services for youth into primary care settings.  

UCSF Adolescent and Young Adult Clinic
Clinician

Mt. Zion Young Women’s Program
Clinician

Community Health Network for Youth, Cole Street Youth Clinic  
Colposcopist

Adolescent Health Working Group   
Steering committee member 

Monasterio, E., & Ellen, J. Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Adolescents and Young Adults.  In Campos-Oucault, D. (Ed.), 20 Common Problems in Preventative Health Care. McGraw-Hill, 2000, 145-172, 1998.

Monasterio, E. Enhancing resilience in the adolescent. Nurs Clin North Am. 37: 373-379, 2002

Marcell, AV, and Monasterio E. Providing anticipatory guidance and counseling to the adolescent male. Adolesc Med State Art Rev. 14(3): 565-582, 2003.

Monasterio, E. Stages of development: adolescents and their children. In J. Rosenthal (Ed.), Fundamental skills for case managers, A self-study guide. California Department of Health Services, MCH Branch, Unit 3, 1-75. 2003.

Monasterio, E., Hwang, L, Shafer, M. Adolescent Sexual Health. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care.37(8):302-25, 2007.