Hilary E.L. Reno, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8354
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: hreno@nospam.wustl.edu
Dr. Hilary Reno is the director of the WashU Public Health Infection Referral and Service Team (PHIRST) program, PI of the Enhancing STI and Sexual Health Clinic Infrastructure (ESSHCI) program, PI and Medical Director of the St. Louis STI/ HIV Prevention Training Center, and a medical consultant with the CDC, Division of STD Prevention. As a consultant with the CDC, DSTPD, she is a co-author of the CDC STI Treatment Guidelines and CDC doxy-PEP guidelines.
Dr. Reno specializes in sexual health care, with a special focus on the clinical care of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and the intersection with HIV prevention. She was the director of the St. Louis County Sexual Health Clinic from 2007-2024 and built the clinic’s PrEP program. Her research focuses on the use of healthcare databases to improve STI care, center community members, and encourage regional cooperation. Dr. Reno is also the site PI for studies that evaluate new therapeutics and testing modalities for STIs, and she collaborates with basic scientists to collect clinical samples for research focused on vaginal microbiome and other studies.
She also mentors students, residents and fellows who have investigated such topics as: care for patients with STIs in the ED, the cost of STI care, and improving sexual health education for community health workers. She was the recipient of the Dean’s Award for mentoring in 2024.
- WUPhysicians Profile
- St. Louis STD/HIV Prevention Training Center
- St. Louis STI Regional Response Coalition – Helping coordinate efforts to reduce incidence and harm of sexually-transmitted infections in the St. Louis region
- Twitter: @hrenoID
Infectious Diseases Clinic
620 South Taylor Ave., Suite 100
St. Louis, MO 63110
- Medical Consultant, CDC, Division of STD Prevention
- Medical Director, St. Louis STD/ HIV Prevention Training Center
- Director, St. Louis STI Regional Response Coalition
- BS: Nothern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (1994)
- MS: Entomology, University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign, IL (1998)
- PhD: Entomology, University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign, IL (2000)
- Medical Degree: University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign, IL (2002)
- Residency, Internal Medicine: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO (2005)
- Chief Resident: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (2007)
- Fellowship, Infectious Diseases: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO (2009)
- Internal Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- 2024 The Sylvie Ratelle Award, National Network of Prevention Training Centers
- 2024 Dean’s Impact Award Recipient, Washington University School of Medicine
- 2022 elected to Board of Directors, American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (two year term)
- Trolard, A., E Peters Bergquist, B Fox, A Kuhlmann, T Loux, SY Liang, BP Stoner, H Reno. Presenting to the Emergency Department versus Clinic-Based STD Care Locations for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Care; A Spatial Exploration. Sex Transm Dis. 2019 Jul;46 (7):474-479.
- H. Reno, B Fox, C Highfill, A McKee, A Trolard, S Liang, BP Stoner, B Meyerson. The emerging intersection between injection drug use and early syphilis in non-urban areas of Missouri, 2012-2018. 2020. J Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 2;222(Supplement 5):S465-S470. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa056.
- C. Cohen, M. Wierzbicki, A. French, S. Morris. S. Newmann, H. Reno, L. Green, S. Miller, J. Powell, T. Parks, A. Hemmerling. Randomized Trial of LACTIN-V to Prevent Recurrence of Bacterial Vaginosis. N Engl J Med.2020 May 14;382(20):1906-1915. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1915254