 Mary
Ann Shafer, MD
, Professor of Pediatrics,
is Associate Director for Training in the Division of Adolescent Medicine.
She has interests and responsibilities as a nationally recognized clinician,
teacher and researcher. Her primary clinical responsibility is the clinical
teaching of adolescent medicine for Fellows and Residents. Her clinical
practice includes general care of adolescents and their families, and
her specific areas of interest include eating disorders, fatigue and pain
syndromes, medical gynecology, and complex chronic illness among both
adolescent males and females. Her teaching responsibilities include her
role as director of the three year Maternal and Child Health Leadership
in Adolescent Health (LEAH) interdisciplinary fellowship program in adolescent
health (medicine, nursing, nutrition, psychology and social work) as well
as the director of the residency and medical student elective rotations
in adolescent medicine. Dr. Shafer is also a well-known speaker for Continued
Medical Education for physicians in the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Shafer is also a productive researcher with a specific focus on three
areas: (1) the diagnosis of chlamydial infections and other STDs in teens;
(1) health services research in the area of translating preventive health
guidelines into everyday practice, specifically she and colleagues are
developing and evaluating systems-based approaches to incorporating preventive
health care into both well and urgent health care visits for adolescents;
and (3) developing and evaluating cognitive-behavioral-skills building
prevention interventions to prevent STDs and HIV among adolescents and
young adult populations. In addition, she continues her work in advocacy
for youth and actively participates in local programs developed to give
parenting skills to parents of adolescents.
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