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Bio
Dr Nsuami is an Associate Professor of Research in the Department of Medicine. He completed undergraduate studies in biomedical sciences and earned a MD degree at Kinshasa University in Zaire in 1986. From 1987 to 1992, he worked in Zaire as a physician-researcher for a Zairian-American-Belgian HIV/AIDS research program, following a cohort of children born to HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected mothers from birth to age 5. During these early years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Dr Nsuami was among the pioneers who investigated vertical transmission of HIV and contributed to better characterize pediatric HIV/AIDS in Africa. He co-authored 10 research articles on HIV/AIDS in children and their mothers and was acknowledged in many others for his contributions. In 1992, he was among investigators who determined current methods of calculating the rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
After international sponsors ended HIV/AIDS research in Zaire, Dr Nsuami enrolled in and earned a MPH degree in Epidemiology at Tulane School of Public Health in New Orleans in 1993. In 1995, he joined LSUMC-New Orleans when it was launching a citywide chlamydia screening in local public high schools. Dr Nsuami was instrumental in gaining acceptance of this initiative in local schools, which then ran for ten consecutive years until 2005. He created and maintain a dataset that is unique in the field, from which 20 research articles have been published, 12 of which he has written.
With his accumulated experience in every research stage -study design, protocol development, research ethics, data collection, database development, statistical analysis, data interpretation and reporting- Dr Nsuami has co-authored an additional 16 research articles in collaboration with researchers at LSUHSC-NO and at other institutions in the US and around the world. He is currently serving as Guest Editor of a special issue on “School-Based STD Screening” for the journal Biology..
Education
Undergraduate:
1983 - Biomedical Scienes
Kinshasa University School of Medicine
Kinshasa, D R Congo (then Zaire)
Medical:
1986 - M.D.
Kinshasa University School of Medicine
Kinshasa, D R Congo (then Zaire)
Masters:
1993 - MPH, Epidemiology
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana
Training:
1981 - Community Medicine and in General Nursing Care
Kinshasa University Hospital
Kinshasa, Zaire
1982 - Nursing Care (Pediatrics, Obstetrics, & Gynecology)
Kinshasa University Hospital
Kinshasa, Zaire
1983 - Nursing Care in Surgery and Internal Medicine
Mama Yemo General Hospital
Kinshasa, Zaire
1984 - General Medical Practice
Kinshasa University Hospital
Kinshasa, Zaire
1985 - Surgery and Pediatrics
Kinshasa University Hospital
Kinshasa, Zaire
1986 - Obstetrics & Gynecology and Internal Medicine
Kinshasa University Hospital
Kinshasa, Zaire
Publications
1. 2000. Nsuami M, Cohen DA. Participation in a School-Based Sexually Transmitted Disease Screening
Program. Sex Transm Dis 27(8):473-479.
2. 2003. Nsuami M. Recommendations for Screening High School Students for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in
San Francisco. Sex Transm Dis 30(4):367.
3. 2003. Nsuami M, Elie M, Brooks BN, et al. Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases During Preparticipation
Sports Examination of High School Adolescents. J Adolesc Health 32(5):336-339.
4. 2004. Nsuami M, Cammarata CL, Brooks BN, et al. Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Co-Occurrence in a High
School Population. Sex Transm Dis 31(7):424-427.
5. 2006. Nsuami M, Taylor SN, Sanders LS, Martin DH. Missed Opportunities for Early Detection of Chlamydia
and Gonorrhea in School-Based Health Centers. Sex Transm Dis 33(12):703-705.
6. 2009. Nsuami MJ, Taylor SN, Smith BS, Martin DH. Increases in Gonorrhea among High School Students
Following Hurricane Katrina. Sex Transm Infect 85(3):194-198.
7. 2010. Nsuami MJ, Miller JD, Taylor SN, Martin DH. Incident Chlamydia trachomatis Infections in High
Schools. J Invest Med 58(2):485.
8. 2010. Nsuami MJ, Sanders LS, Taylor SN. Knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections among High School
Students. Am J Health Educ 41(4):206-217
9. 2011. Nsuami MJ, Brennan C, Longfellow LA, et al. Treatment for Chlamydial and Gonococcal Infections
in a School-based Screening Program. In: Alary M, ed. 19th Conference of the International
Society for STD Research ISSTDR, Québec City (Canada), July 10-13, 2011. Medimond
s.r.l., Bologna, Italy, 2011; pp. 53-57. URL: http://www.medimond.com/cdrom/N710.pdf.
10. 2011. Nsuami MJ, Besa N, Djamba YK, Sikabwe E, Nsa W. Why Should the Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Apologize for Publishing a Paper Plagiarized from its Archives? J Clin Microbiol 49(8):3109-3110.
11. 2012. Nsuami MJ, Taylor SN. Most Adolescents who Participate in School-Based Screenings for Sexually
Transmitted Infections Do Not Perceive Themselves at High Risk of Sexually Transmitted
Infection. Int J STD & AIDS 23(11):822-824.
12. 2013. Nsuami MJ, Nsa M, Brennan C, et al. Chlamydia Positivity in New Orleans Public High Schools,
1996-2005: Implications for Clinical and Public Health Practices. Acad Pediatr 13(4):308-315.
13. 2016. Nsuami MJ, Nsa M, Brennan C, Martin DH, Taylor SN. Estimates of Risk for Chlamydia/Gonorrhea Associated with Disciplinary Alternative School Placement in United States Public High Schools. Epidemiology (Sunnyvale) 6:226.
14. 2018. Nsuami MJ. (Editorial) Chlamydia Screening, Population Prevalence, and the Principles of Screening for Disease. Sex Transm Dis 45(8):560-562.
15. 2020. Nsuami MJ, Lillis RA, Martin DH. (Commentary) Reconsidering Presumptive Neisseria gonorrhoeae Treatment of Women with Cervicitis. Sex Transm Dis 47(6):383-386
16. 2022. Nsuami MJ. (Editorial) Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Control Programs in the United States: Time to Use the Knowledge Accumulated to Advance Practice. Sex Transm Dis 49(1):90-91
Research
Title: Clinical and Parasitologic Efficacy of Quinine in Children: An Efficacy Trial
Sponsor: CDC
Dates: 1997
Title: Perinatal Transmission of HIV-1: A Prospective Cohort Study
Sponsor: CDC/NIH-NIAID
Dates: 1987 - 1992
Title: Perinatal Transmission of HIV and Childhood Immunization: An Efficacy Trial
Sponsor: Zaire Ministry of Public Health/CDC
Dates: 1987 - 1988
Title: Pediatric HIV/AIDS and Malaria: A Prospective Cohort Study
Sponsor: CDC
Dates: 1987 - 1988
Title: Diarrhea and HIV-1 Infection in Infants Born to HIV-Seropositive Women: A Prospective
Cohort Study
Sponsor: CDC
Dates: 1988-1989
Title: Family Planning and Fertility Rates in HIV Infected Women
Sponsor: Zaire Ministry of Public Health/CDC
Dates: 1988-1990
Title: Tuberculosis and HIV Infection in Women of Childbearing Age: A Retrospective Cohort
Study
Sponsor: Belgian Institute of Tropical Medicine/CDC
Dates: 1988 - 1990
Title: Second Born Children of HIV-1 Infected Women: A Prospective Cohort Study
Sponsor: Zaire Ministry of Public Health/CDC
Dates: 1988 - 1990
Title: Diarrhea Among Children Born to HIV-1 Infected Women
Sponsor: Zaire Ministry of Public Health/CDC
Dates: 1988 - 1990
Title: Efficacy and Side Effects of Edmonston-Zaghreb Measles Vaccine in Children Born to
HIV Seropositive Women: An Efficacy Trial
Sponsor: Zaire Ministry of Public Health/CDC/NIAID
Dates: 1990 - 1991
Title: AIDS Orphans in Kinshasa
Sponsor: CDC/ Zaire Ministry of Public Health
Dates: 1991 - 1992
Title: Trichomonas vaginalis and HIV-1 Infection in Pregnant Women in Kinshasa
Sponsor: CDC
Dates: 1997-1998
Title: A City-wide Public School STD Screening, Treatment and Counseling to Reduce the Prevalence
and Incidence of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea
Sponsor: CDC/Louisiana Office of Public Health
Dates: 1995-2005
Title: Use of Self-Collected Vaginal Swabs as an Innovative Approach to Facilitate Testing
and Repeat Chlamydial Testing
Sponsor: American Association of Medical Colleges/CDC
Dates: 2004-2006
Title: Gulf South Sexually Transmitted Infections/Topical Microbicides Cooperative Research
Center
Sponsor: NIAID
Dates: 2004-2009
Title: Louisiana Charter School STD Screening Project
Sponsor: Gen-Probe Incorporated
Dates: 2006-2007
Title: Integrating epidemiology and mathematical modeling to investigate the impact of interventions
to control infectious diseases
Sponsor: Swiss National Science Foundation
Dates: 2008-2011