Asa Radix

Dr. Radix is the Senior Director of Research and Education at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University. Originally from the West Indies, Dr. Radix trained in internal medicine and infectious disease at the University of Connecticut and obtained postgraduate degrees in epidemiology and public health at Cambridge University. Dr. Radix has over 20 years of experience providing HIV care, primary care and hormone therapy to transgender and gender non-binary people and is a recognized expert in transgender medicine. At Callen-Lorde Dr. Radix is also the clinical director of the center’s Transgender Health Program that provides care to over 4000 transgender and gender non-binary individuals. Dr. Radix has contributed to multiple national and international guidelines in transgender health and is currently Co-Chair of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care version 8 working group. Dr. Radix is member of several boards/committees including the New York State AIDS Institute STI Quality Advisory Committee, the HHS Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents, the Pan American Health Organization HIV/STI Technical Advisory Committee, the American Sexual Health Association, USPATH steering committee, and the medical advisory board of the UCSF Center of Excellence in Transgender Health. Dr. Radix is an Associate Editor of Transgender Health and serves on the editorial board for the International Journal of Transgenderism.

Selected Publications

Sexually Acquired Hepatitis C Infection In HIV-Uninfected Men Who Have Sex With Men Using Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Against HIV. Opens in a new tab Price, Jennifer C; McKinney, Jeffrey E; Crouch, Pierre-Cedric; Dillon, Stephen M; Radix, Asa; Stivala, Alicia; Carollo, Jesse R; Fierer, Daniel S Journal Of Infectious Diseases. 2019 Apr 16; 219(9):1373-1376

The Perioperative Care Of The Transgender Patient. Opens in a new tab Tollinche, Luis Etienne; Walters, Chasity Burrows; Radix, Asa; Long, Michael; Galante, Larissa; Goldstein, Zil Garner; Kapinos, Yvonne; Yeoh, Cindy Anesthesia & Analgesia. 2018 Aug; 127(2):359-366

LGBT Cultural Competence And Interventions To Help Oncology Nurses And Other Health Care Providers. Opens in a new tab Radix, Asa; Maingi, Shail Seminars In Oncology Nursing. 2018 02; 34(1):80-89

Development Of MyPEEPS Mobile: A Behavioral Health Intervention For Young Men. Opens in a new tab Schnall, Rebecca; Kuhns, Lisa; Hidalgo, Marco; Hirshfield, Sabina; Pearson, Cynthia; Radix, Asa; Belkind, Uri; Bruce, Joshua; Batey, D Scott; Garofalo, Robert Studies In Health Technology & Informatics. 2018 Mar; 250:31

Transgender Health Care: Improving Medical Students' And Residents' Training And Awareness. Opens in a new tab Dubin, Samuel N; Nolan, Ian T; Streed, Carl G; Greene, Richard E; Radix, Asa E; Morrison, Shane D Advances In Medical Education & Practice. 2018 Apr; 9:377-391

Endocrine Treatment Of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons. Opens in a new tab Radix, Asa; Davis, Andrew M JAMA. 2017 Oct 17; 318(15):1491-1492

Breast Cancer Screening, Management, And A Review Of Case Study Literature In Transgender Populations. Opens in a new tab Deutsch, Madeline B; Radix, Asa; Wesp, Linda Seminars In Reproductive Medicine. 2017 09; 35(5):434-441

Cancer Care In Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender And Queer Populations. Opens in a new tab Gibson, Alec W; Radix, Asa E; Maingi, Shail; Patel, Shilpen Future Oncology. 2017 Jun; 13(15):1333-1344