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