Douglas AE White, MD

Dr. Douglas AE. White is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco who works as an attending emergency physician at Highland Hospital, Alameda Health System (formerly the Alameda County Medical Center). He serves as an Associate Researcher for the Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine in Oakland, California and is the Director of Emergency Department HIV and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Screening as well as the Director of Residency Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Since 2004, Dr. White has been actively involved in public health research with a focus on implementing models of HIV and HCV screening in the urban ED. His work has been supported through several grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), California State Office of AIDS, Gilead Sciences, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. White has partnered with the CDC in providing training and clinical expertise in their workshop series, “Implementation of HIV Screening in Acute Care Settings” and has been an active member of the National Emergency Department HIV Testing Consortium. He is currently a co-investigator in an NIH-funded randomized controlled trial evaluating 3 HIV screening methods in EDs. Over the past 3 years, Dr. White has integrated both targeted HCV screening (risk-based and birth cohort) as well as non-risk-based screening into ED clinical operations.