working, and organized. She already had a child at that point, and I was quite impressed at her ability to bal- ance her home and medical life." Homeless and Indigent Population Health Outreach Project (HIPHOP) to help the poorest residents in New Brunswick. During her residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Brown University and a fellowship in adult infectious diseases at Harvard University, Dr. Flash found that her time at Robert Wood Johnson Med- ical School served her well. to more well-known medical schools she says. "Even now, I still talk about Robert Wood Johnson. We had a `sex week' curriculum, where you talk about sexually transmitted infections and sexual gender minorities; that kind of training created the founda- tion for what I am doing now. Robert Wood we had an entire week," she adds. "The experiences with HIPHOP and Elijah's Soup Kitchen, where we would recruit them to come in from around the corner, that idea of bringing care to where people are, and the power of touch--all of that I got at Robert Wood. It was fantastic." shortly after moving to Texas. "You have to have something more to give patients than, `You should have used a condom,' and `come back in three months,'" she says. Dr. Flash works to ensure patients' health by prescrib- ing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and she views her current situation as an opportunity: "There are very few places in the U.S. where you can pro- vide primary care to large numbers of people with HIV." dents making rounds, and speaking at international conferences for physicians specializing in AIDS, what does Dr. Flash do to relax or for hobbies? T E S Y O C L E N F L A H M ' 0 |