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Marsha Sturdevant

 
Physician - Specialty Interests - Eating Disorders, HIV, AIDS - Children's Health System Inc.
 
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Company Name : Children's Health System Inc.
 
Company Website : www.chsys.org
 
Company Address : 1600 7th Ave.
, S. Birmingham, AL,
United States,
 
Marsha Sturdevant Profile :
Physician - Specialty Interests - Eating Disorders, HIV, AIDS - Children's Health System Inc.
 
Marsha Sturdevant Biography :

Marsha S. Sturdevant, M.D. is the Medical Director of the Adolescent Health Center, Teen Tot Clinic, and Eating Disorder Clinic at the Children’s Hospital. In addition, she is the Medical Director of the Family Clinic for women, youth, children, and families infected/affected with HIV/AIDS, and the Project Director of the Southeastern Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Project, an interdisciplinary training grant funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. She is an associate professor of pediatrics at the UAB School of Medicine with a secondary appointment in the UAB School of Public Health. She is board certified in pediatrics and sub-specialty board certified in adolescent medicine. She received her medical degree from the Oregon Health Sciences University in 1981 and completed a three-year pediatric residency at Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana in 1984. After five years of private general pediatrics practice, she re-entered academia and completed an adolescent medicine fellowship at the University of Minnesota Adolescent Health Program in 1991. She became faculty in the UAB Department of Pediatrics in 1991. Her major clinical and research interests include: HIV/AIDS, adolescent STD/pregnancy prevention, and eating disorders. She is an associate scientist in the UAB Center of AIDS Research (CFAR), the UAB Center for Health Promotion (CHP), and the UAB Center for the Advancement of Youth Health (CAYH). Her previously funded projects include the Teenage Access Project: HIV prevention, counseling, testing, and referrals for high risk young women (1993-1997) and the Alabama Clinical Site of the Adolescent Medicine HIV/AIDS Research Network (1995-2001).

Dr. Sturdevant serves on the Governor’s HIV/AIDS Commission and is a member of the Commission’s Expert Panel on HIV/AIDS. She is a member of the Board of Directors of AIDSAlabama, where she has chaired the education committee and the programs committee. She is currently the President of the Board of Directors of Cahaba Valley Health Care, a non-profit organization dedicated to access to health care for Hispanic families in Jefferson and Shelby Counties. Dr. Sturdevant is listed with the Children’s Hospital speaker’s bureau and CAYH speaker’s bureau and has lectured locally and nationally on subjects related to adolescent health and HIV/AIDS.

 
Marsha Sturdevant Colleagues :
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Bonnie Spear

Special Interest, Eating Disorders, Nutrition Education, Childhool Obesity, Doctor, Adolescent Medicine Please login

Shirley Robinson

Special Interests, Pediatric Psychology, Adolescent Medicine, Maternal, Child Health, Access to Healthcare, Positive Youth Development, Juvenile Justice, Child Abuse, Neglect, Internalizing Please login

Jean Ivey

Specialty Interests, Adolescent Families, Adolescent Mothers, Adolescent Development Please login

Anne Turner-henson

Specialty Interests, Secondhand Smoke Exposure, Special Health Care Needs, Environmental Issues Please login

Carole Milner

Specialty Interests, Behavioral Medicine With Adolescents, Family Please login


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