Elon professors and students present at Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine

Elon University faculty members Cynthia “Cindy” Fair and Alexis Moore presented research with two students in March to a conference of the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine.

Fair, a professor of human service studies, and Moore, an assistant professor of physician assistant studies, joined with Hannah Allen and Mackenzie Zendt to share their scholarship on adolescents and young adults with HIV.

Allen and Zendt are both public health majors at Elon.

The title of their presentations:

Moore, A.  Adolescents behaviorally and perinatally infected with HIV, the intersection of sexual and reproductive health services and transition of care: Are their needs being met? http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.10.107

Fair, C., & Allen, H. The second generation of HIV to the third: Perceptions of adolescent and young adult parents with perinatally-acquired HIV. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.10.109

Fair, C., Orefice, J., & Gatto, A. “I’m not fragile.  I’m not limited”: Career aspirations of adolescents and young adults living with perinatally acquired HIV.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.10.104 (Joanna Orefice and Amy Gatto are both Elon alumni)

Fair, C., & Zendt, M. “I am afraid what the kid is going to have”: A qualitative study of relationship and childbearing perspectives among Hispanic American adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.10.108

Graham, K., Fraser, L., Fair, C., Homans, J., & Operskalski, E. Reproductive health and contraceptive counseling services received among Hispanic adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV: An exploratory study. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.10.102 (Graham, Fraser, Homans and Operskalski are Fair’s colleagues at the University of Southern California)