John Schmitt
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Global Health
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John Schmitt
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Global Health
I have been a practicing physician for more than 30 years specializing in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Fifteen of those years were spent in a very busy private practice, the rest in an academic practice at both the University of Virginia and most recently Duke University.
My clinical interest lies with the screening for and treating premalignant diseases of the uterine cervix, the vulva, and the vagina. In this regard I direct The Cervical Cancer Prevention Clinic at Duke and have lectured all over North Carolina, Virginia, Tanzania, and Saudi Arabia on HPV biology and cervical cancer screening. I am currently working with Dr. Nimmi Ramanujam in Biomedical Engineering looking at unique ways to screen for and prevent cervical cancer in the developing world. In this regard we have working projects in Tanzania as well as Peru with plans to expand to Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda, and India in the near future. I also serve as a teaching consultant in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Moshi Tanzania about 3 months per year.
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Publications
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Rohner E, Edelman C, Sanusi B, Schmitt JW, Baker A, Chesko K, et al. Extended HPV Genotyping to Compare HPV Type Distribution in Self- and Provider-Collected Samples for Cervical Cancer Screening. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 Dec;29(12):2651–61.
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Asiedu MN, Agudogo JS, Dotson ME, Skerrett E, Krieger MS, Lam CT, et al. A novel speculum-free imaging strategy for visualization of the internal female lower reproductive system. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 6;10(1):16570.
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Rohner E, McGuire FH, Liu Y, Li Q, Miele K, Desai SA, et al. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Acceptability of Urine and Cervico-Vaginal Sample Self-Collection for HPV-Based Cervical Cancer Screening. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2020 Jul;29(7):971–9.
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Rohner E, Rahangdale L, Sanusi B, Knittel AK, Vaughan L, Chesko K, et al. Test Accuracy of Human Papillomavirus in Urine for Detection of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia. J Clin Microbiol. 2020 Feb 24;58(3).
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