Women & Infants Hospital’s Hardy Receives Visionary Voice Award
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Women & Infants Hospital’s Erica Hardy was awarded the Visionary Voice Award last week for her work in providing care and follow-up care for women who have suffered sexual assault.
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) offers the Visionary Voice Awards, in conjunction with Sexual Assault Awareness Month each April.
About Hardy
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She went on to complete an infectious disease fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. During fellowship, she completed a master’s of medical science at Harvard Medical School.
In addition, she holds a master’s degree in philosophy with a concentration in medical ethics from the University of Maryland.
Hardy’s clinical and research interests include infectious disease issues in women, including congenital infection, complex sexually transmitted infections, as well as the medical care and follow-up of survivors of sexual assault.
She has grant funding from the Center for AIDS Research to explore the female genital tract immunology after sexual assault, as well as vaginal microbiome in women initiating long-acting contraception.
Hardy is the co-director of the Women & Infants Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee.
She sees inpatient and outpatient infectious disease consults and is involved in medical education.
She has been presented with several teaching awards from medical students while on their ob/gyn and obstetric medicine rotation, and from ob/gyn residents.
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