Sandra Springer, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Interests
Dr. Springer’s primary clinical interest is HIV/AIDS and caring for HIV infected patients at Nathan Smith Clinic at YNHH as well as at York Street Correctional Facility for Women. Her research interests include improving adherence to antiretrovirals and drug treatment for HIV infected opiate addicted men and women. Clinical research includes treating opiate addiction and HIV infection with directly observed methadone and buprenorphine in conjunction with antiretroviral therapy. She has received a 5 year K23 Career Development Award from NIDA to study adherence interventions for HIV-infected opiate dependent released prisoners providing directly observed antiretroviral therapy and buprenorphine treatment.
Education
A.B. Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, 1990
M.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 1998
Residency in Internal Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital, 1998-2001
Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine, 2001-2003
Recent Publications
- Teoh SK, Sarnyai Z, Mendelson JH, Mello NK, Springer SA,
Sholar JW, Wapler M, Kuehnle JC, Gelles H. Cocaine effects on pulsatile
secretion of ACTH in men. Journal of Pharmacology & Experimental
Therapeutics. 1994; 270 (3): 1134-8.
- Levin JM, Holman BL, Mendelson JH, Teoh SK, Garada B, Johnson KA,
Springer SA. Gender differences in cerebral perfusion in
cocaine abuse: technetium-99m-HMPAO SPECT study of drug-abusing women.
Journal of Nuclear Medicine 1994; 35 (12):1902-9.
- Springer SA & Gastfriend DR. A pilot study of
factors associated with resilience to substance abuse in adolescent
sons of alcoholic fathers. Journal of Addictive Diseases 1995; 14 (2):
53- 66.
- Altice FL, Springer SA, Buitrago M et al. Pilot
Study to Enhance HIV Care Using Needle Exchange-Based Health Services
for Out-Of-Treatment Injecting Drug Users. Journal of Urban Health:
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine 2003; 80 (3): 416-427.
- Altice FL, Mezger J, Hodges J, Bruce RD, Marinovich A, Walton M, Springer
SA , Friedland GH. Developing a Directly Administered Antiretroviral
Therapy Intervention for HIV Infected Drug Users: Implications for
Program Replication. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2004; 38: S376-87.
- Springer SA , Pesanti E, Doros G, Hodges J, Macura
T, Altice FL. Effectiveness of Antiretroviral Therapy among HIV Infected
Prisoners: Reincarceration and the Lack of Sustained Benefit after
Release to the Community. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2004;38:1754-1760.
- Altice FL, Marinovich A, Khoshnood K, Blankenship KM, Springer
SA, Selwyn PA. Correlates of HIV Infection among Incarcerated
Women: Implications for Improving Detection of HIV Infection. (In
Press).
- Altice FL, Springer SA & Pesanti E. Reply to
Badudieri et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2004;39 ( 15 December).
- Springer SA and Altice FL. Managing HIV/AIDS in Correctional
Settings. Current HIV/AIDS Reports 2005, 2:165-170.
Non-experimental articles:
- Springer SA & Altice FL. Brief Report of an HIV
Infected Patient with Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis Whose Course Was
Complicated By Symptomatic Lactic Acidosis. Clinical Infectious Diseases
2003; 36:162-4.
Chapters of Books
- Springer SA. Fever of Unknown Origin in Field
Guide to Internal Medicine. Eds, Smith D, Sullivan L & Haye
S. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. 2004 [In Press].
- Springer SA. Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Field
Guide to Internal Medicine. Eds, Smith D, Sullivan L & Haye
S. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. 2004 [In Press].
- Springer SA. Alcohol & Illicit Drug Withdrawal/Overdose
in Field Guide to Internal Medicine. Eds, Smith D, Sullivan
L & Haye S. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. 2004 [In Press].
- Altice FL & Springer SA. Managing HIV in United
States Correctional Systems. In: HIV in the 21 st Century. 2004. [In
Press].
