Dr. Richey is a board-certified Infectious Diseases physician with over ten years of experience in HIV primary care and clinical research. After receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she went on to receive a Master in Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University and her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University. She completed her residency training in internal medicine and her fellowship in infectious diseases at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. During her fellowship she completed a certificate in Tropical Medicine at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Richey joined the faculty of the Medical University of South Carolina as an Assistant Professor in 2013 where she had significant teaching responsibilities, particularly as the division representative for medical student rotations and as a Program Director for the infectious disease fellowship. She was promoted to Associate Professor in July of 2017. She joined the faculty of the Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans in October 2017. She became ID Center Director in 2018.
Dr. Richey is an active member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), recently promoted to fellow status and serving as one of IDSA’s journal club writers. She has both inpatient and outpatient clinical responsibilities and is responsible for teaching and mentoring the infectious disease fellows in their weekly HIV continuity clinic. Her primary clinical and research interests include people living with HIV and hepatitis C and factors affecting their linkage and retention in care. Also of interest are comorbidities such substance, tobacco, alcohol use disorders and their impact on outcomes of people living with HIV. She has authored 14 peer reviewed papers on HIV and over 30 national posters and presentations on HIV.
