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Troy Grennan

Clinical Associate Professor
VCH Clinical Title(s)
Physician Lead, HIV/STI Program, BC Centre for Disease Control
Research Focus
InfectionsHIV
Contact Info
troy.grennan@bccdc.ca
604-707-5606
DrTroyG

Biography

Dr. Troy Grennan is an infectious diseases physician and researcher. He is currently the physician lead for the Provincial HIV/STI Program at the BC Centre for Disease Control, as well as a clinical associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of British Columbia. Following specialty training in infectious diseases and medical microbiology, he completed a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Canadian HIV Trials Network postdoctoral fellowship examining human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated anal cancer screening in HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM). 

Dr. Grennan is currently co-principal investigator on the CIHR Team Grant “HPV Screening and Vaccine Evaluation in HIV-Positive MSM” and the recently funded “Predicting and Evaluating Anal Cancer in HIV (PEACH) using novel biomarkers,” as well as a number of other projects examining anal cancer screening and HPV vaccination in MSM. His other research and clinical work focuses on HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention with a focus on MSM. He is principal Iinvestigator on the DISCO (Doxycycline as an Intervention for STI ChemOprophylaxis) study, a multi-centre randomized controlled trial examining the use of doxycycline for bacterial STI prevention.

Research Studies

Sexual Health

Evaluating drug efficacy to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections

Publications

  • The lancet. HIV -

    Advancing anal cancer prevention in men.

    Burchell AN, Grennan T
  • Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) -

    Racial Disparities in Anal Cancer Screening Among Men Living With HIV: Findings From a Clinical Cohort Study.

    Gillis JL, Grennan T, Grewal R, Ogilvie G, Gaspar M, Grace D, Lofters A, Raboud JM, Saarela O, Rosenes R, Salit IE, Burchell AN,
  • Sexually transmitted infections -

    Factors associated with interest in bacterial sexually transmitted infection vaccines at two large sexually transmitted infection clinics in British Columbia, Canada.

    Plotnikoff KM, Ogilvie GS, Smith L, Donken R, Pedersen HN, Samji H, Grennan T
  • Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America -

    Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositivity and Early Syphilis Stage Associated With Ocular Syphilis Diagnosis: A Case-control Study in British Columbia, Canada, 2010-2018.

    Hamze H, Ryan V, Cumming E, Lukac C, Wong J, Muhammad M, Grennan T
  • Culture, health & sexuality -

    '… if U equals U what does the second U mean?': sexual minority men's accounts of HIV undetectability and untransmittable scepticism.

    Grace D, Nath R, Parry R, Connell J, Wong J, Grennan T
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