Antimicrobial Resistant Gonorrhea and CDC’s Gonorrhea Treatment Guidelines Update

Sancta St. Cyr, MD, MPH, is the project officer for the Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project, the national sentinel surveillance system for antibiotic resistant gonorrhea. She joined the Surveillance and Data Management Branch of the Division of STD Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2017 as a medical officer. In her role, she regularly contributes to programs and publications involving antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. She recently co-led the gonorrhea subcommittee for the upcoming CDC 2021 STD Treatment Guidelines.

St. Cyr earned her medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans, trained in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and completed her infectious diseases fellowship and master of public health in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.