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Sheena Knights, M.D.

Sheena Knights, M.D.

Assistant Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Internal Medicine

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  • Biography

    Sheena Knights, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine. She is the Associate Program Director of the HIV Fellowship program.

    Dr. Knights holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Princeton University in New Jersey. She earned her medical degree and completed internal medicine residency training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston She then received advanced training through an infectious diseases fellowship at UT Southwestern.

    Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Infectious Disease, Dr. Knights joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2019.

    Dr. Knights’ clinical interest includes a focus on HIV care. Her research interests include HIV-associated Kaposi’s sarcoma and healthcare disparities.

    Personal Note

    Outside of medicine, her interests include cooking, traveling, and spending time with family.

  • Education
    Medical School
    Baylor College of Medicine (2014)
    Residency
    Baylor College of Medicine (2017), Internal Medicine
    Fellowship
    UT Southwestern Medical Center (2019), Infectious Diseases
  • Research Interest
    • Healthcare Disparities
    • HIV
    • Kaposi's Sarcoma
  • Publications

    Star Featured Publications

    Brucellosis in Adults and Children: A 10-Year Case Series at Two Large Academic Hospitals in Houston, Texas.
    Serpa JA, Knights S, Farmakiotis D, Campbell J, South. Med. J. 2018 06 111 6 324-327
  • Books

    Featured 

    Featured The Care of HIV-infected Patients with Kidney Disease. In The Subspecialty Care of HIV Patients

    Knights, s & Raghavan, R. (2018). New York, NY, Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

  • Honors & Awards
    • Second Place, Poster Session
      Texas Infectious Diseases Society Annual Meeting (2019)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • Infectious Disease Socity of America (2017)