Background

David (he/him) is a junior doctor and early career researcher with a special interest in sexual health and HIV and currently working part-time with the Burnet Insitute. David’s research has focussed on the implementation and evaluation of novel HIV testing strategies, along with sexually transmissible infection surveillance. David’s current research focuses on the scale-up of HIV self-testing in Australia.

David has previously been a peer worker providing HIV and other sexual health testing to gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men at Australia’s first shopfront rapid point-of-care HIV testing clinic. Currently, David is completing his medical residency with Western Health with a view to a career in medical practice, education, and research, with a focus on sexual health and blood borne viruses among other areas.

Positions

• Medical Resident, Western Health, Victoria

Qualifications

• 2019, MD, University of Melbourne, Australia
• 2014, BBiomed (hons), University of Melbourne, Australia
• 2012, DLang, Univeristy of Melbourne, Australia

Publications (6)

2021 (1)

• Implications of HIV self-testing for other sexually transmissible infection testing and broader sexual health needs: a mixed methods study of gay and bisexual men in Australia.
  Leitinger D, Ryan K, Wilkinson AL, Pedrana A, Hellard M, Stoové M
  Sex Transm Dis. 2021 Jun; 48(6):417-423

2019 (2)

• A comparative, retrospective analysis of HIV testing among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Melbourne, Australia.
  Ryan KE, Wilkinson AL, Chow E, Read T, Chen M, Locke P, Leitinger D, Bradshaw C, Pedrana A, Hellard M, Fairley CK, Stoové M
  Aust N Z J Public Health. 2019 Oct; 43(5):419-423
• Assessment of service refinement and its impact on repeat HIV testing by client's access to Australia's universal healthcare system: a retrospective cohort study.
  Ryan KE, Wilkinson AL, Asselin J, Leitinger DP, Locke P, Pedrana A, Hellard M, Stoové M
  J Int AIDS Soc. 2019 Aug; 22(8):e25353

2018 (1)

• Acceptability and HIV prevention benefits of a peer-based model of rapid point of care HIV testing for Australian gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.
  Leitinger D, Ryan KE, Brown G, Pedrana A, Wilkinson AL, Ryan C, Hellard M, Stoové M
  AIDS Behav. 2018 Jan; 22(1):178-189

2017 (1)

• Trial and error: evaluating and refining a community model of HIV testing in Australia.
  Ryan KE, Pedrana A, Leitinger D, Wilkinson AL, Locke P, Hellard ME, Stoové M
  BMC Health Serv Res. 2017 Oct; 17(1):692

2016 (1)

• Characteristics of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men testing and retesting at Australia’s first shop-front rapid point-of-care HIV testing service.
  Ryan KE, Wilkinson AL, Leitinger D, El-Hayek C, Ryan C, Pedrana A, Hellard M, Stoové M
  Sex Health. 2016 Aug; 13(6):560-567