Faculty Biography

Dr. William Leigh Risser

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Education:

MD, Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut

PhD, University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health

Residency: Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut

Clinical and Research Interests:

1. Sexually transmitted infections in adolescents
2. Healthcare of incarcerated youth

Publications (selected):

• Risser WL. Human Immunodeficiency virus and other blood-borne pathogens in the athletic setting.  Pediatrics 1999;104:1400-1403 (policy statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics of which I am the author)
• Cromwell PF, Risser WL, Risser JMH.  Prevalence and incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease in incarcerated adolescents.  Sex Transm Dis 2002;29:391-396
• Domalanta DD, Risser WL, Roberts RE,  Risser JMH.  Prevalence of depression and other psychiatric disorders among incarcerated youth.  J Acad Child Adol Psych 2003;42:477-484
• Risser WL, Cromwell PF, Bortot AT, Risser JMH.  Impact of new diagnostic criteria on the prevalence and incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease.  Am J Pediatr Adol Gynecol 2004;17:39-44
• Risser JMH, Risser WL, Eissa MA, Cromwell PF, Barratt MS, Bortot AT.  Self-assessment of circumcision status by adolescents.  Am J Epidemiol 2004;159:1095-97
• Risser, WL, Bortot AT, Benjamins LJ, Feldmann JM, Barratt MS, Eissa MA,  Risser JMH: The epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections in adolescents. Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Disease, 2005;16:160-167
• Risser WL, Smith KC.  Tuberculosis in incarcerated youth in Texas.  JAMA 2005;293:2716-2717
• Bortot AT, Risser WL, Cromwell PF.  Condom use in incarcerated adolescent males: knowledge and practice.  Sex Transm Dis 2006;33:2-4
• Benjamins LJ, Risser WL, Cromwell PC, Feldmann JF, Bortot AT, Eissa MA, Nguyen AB. Body art among minority high school athletes: prevalence, satisfaction, and parental knowledge and consent. J Adolesc Health 2006;39:933-955
• Risser WL, Risser JM, Benjamins LJ, Feldmann JM. Incidence of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome in adolescents who have pelvic inflammatory disease. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 2007;20:179-80
• Risser WL, Risser JM. The incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease in untreated women infected with Chlamydia trachomatis: a structured review. Int J STD AIDS 2007;18:727-731
• Risser, JMH, Risser WL, Risser AL.  Epidemiology of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Women, Infect Dis Clin N Am 2008;22:581-599
• Risser JMH, Risser WL. Purulent vaginal and cervical discharge in the diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease. Int J STD AIDS 2009;20:73-76

Location & Contact

6431 Fannin Street
MSB 3.020
Houston, Texas 77030
713-500-5757 (Voice)

Faculty Biography

• Dr. William Leigh Risser
  Professor
• Department of Pediatrics
  Director, Division of Adolescent Medicine
• University of Texas-Houston Medical School
  6431 Fannin Street, MSB 3.146
  Houston, Texas 77030
• phone: (713) 500-5755
  fax: (713) 500-5750
  
• Executive Assistant:
  Susan Ramos | (713) 500-5663