Lisa Sanders, MD

Assistant Professor, College of Medicine Pediatrics

Contact Info

• Ybor Youth Clinic
  1315 E. 7th Avenue, Ste. 104
  Tampa FL 33605
• Academic Email: lisasanders@usf.edu
• Academic Phone: (813) 821-8955
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Education

Biography

Dr. Lisa Sanders is an Assistant Professor in the University of South Florida (USF) Department of Pediatrics Division of Infectious Diseases. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Florida College of Medicine. She completed fellowship training in adult Infectious Diseases at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the University of Alabama Birmingham. Dr. Sanders has directed outpatient HIV care at the Hillsborough County Department of Health and the 1917 Clinic at UAB. She returned to USF as a consultant in 2016 and assumed the role of Executive Director at the Ybor Youth Clinic, a sexual health clinic for youth ages 13 to 24, in 2019. While there she has been instrumental in obtaining federal and state contracts and grants to support clinic services, establishing a medical-student run afterhours clinic to expand STI/HIV testing services. and fostering collaborations within USF and in the community to better meet the needs of clinic patients. Her research interests include HIV prevention, sexually transmitted infections, and the impact of social determinants of health on the sexual health needs of adolescents and young adults.

Interdisciplinary and Emerging Signature Programs

• Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease

Research Interests

• Dr. Sanders' research interests include HIV prevention, sexually transmitted infections, and the impact of social determinants of health on the sexual health needs of youth and young adults.

Recent Publications

• Ryan RL, Emmanuel PE, Sanders LJ Preventing Behavioral HIV Infections in Adolescents and Young Adults Advances In Pediatrics. 71, 2024.
• Turley CB, Tables L, Fuller T, Sander LJ, et al. Modifiers of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy: Results from four COVID-19 prevention network efficacy trials Vaccine. 41(33) : 4899-4906, 2023.
• DiGiovanni LK, Lim AC, Kosyluk K, Loecher N, Lewald DL, Rodriguez CA, Sanders LJ. Novel Application of Dot Survey Methodology at a Youth Health Clinic Journal of Adolescent Health. 72(4) : 616-622, 2022.
• Lim AC, Venkatesh M, Lewald DL, Emmanuel PJ, Sanders L Changes in the time of COVID-19: a quality improvement initiative to maintain services at a youth sexual health clinic Sexually Transmitted Infections. 98(7) : 525-527, 2022.
• Zhang S, Lopez I, Washington B, Gaudet B, Rodriguez CA, Sanders LJ Assessing the Attitude of Tampa Bay Youth toward HIV Self-Testing Kits. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases. 6(3) , 2021.