Theresa Exner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry)

Research Scientist,
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies


Primary research interests: primary and secondary prevention of HIV; promotion of dual methods for HIV?STI?pregnancy prevention; structural interventions; gender, sexuality and sexual risk behavior; assessment of sexual behavior.
Undergraduate:  Las Salle College, BA, 1973-1977
Graduate:  University of Connecticut, MA, Ph.D., 1977-1986
Internship:  Spring Grove State Hospital, 1979-1980
Fellowship:  Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, 1986-1988
• Human sexuality


1. Exner TM, Hoffman S, Dworkin SL, Ehrhardt AA: Beyond the male condom: The evolution of gender-specific HIV interventions for women.  Annual Review of Sex Research  2004;15: 114-135

2. Melendez RM, Exner TM, Ehrhardt AA, Dodge B, Remien, RH, Rotheram-Borus MJ, Lightfoot M, Hong D. & the NIMH Healthy Living Project Team: Health and health care among male-to-female transgenders.  American Journal of Public Health  2006;96: 1034-1037

3. Exner TM, Hoffman S, Parikh K, Leu CS, Ehrhardt AA, Clayton J : HIV counseling and testing: women's experiences and the role of testing as a prevention strategy.  Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health  2002;34: 76-83

4. Exner TM, Gardos PS, Seal DW, Ehrhardt AA: Heterosexual men in the AIDS epidemic: The forgotten group.  1999;3: 347-358

5. Exner TM, Ehrhardt AA, Seal D : A review of HIV interventions for at-risk women.  AIDS and Behavior  1997;1: 93-124

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