Kanani Titchen- MD
- Professor (Associate) at University of California, San Diego
Kanani Titchen
- MD
- Professor (Associate) at University of California, San Diego
Reproductive health education and human trafficking prevention and education for middle school students
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Introduction
Kanani Titchen, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCSD/Rady Division of Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine. Dr. Titchen has advocated for human trafficking survivors at the UN, HHS, the NYC Mayor’s Office, and the San Diego Advisory Council. She has spoken at universities, hospitals, & in the media about the need for a trauma-informed approach when working with trafficked persons, and she has co-authored curricula for medical professionals.
TEDx: https://youtu.be/hrxhptvEOTs
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January 1993 - August 1996
May 2009 - August 2009
June 2007 - June 2008
Education
June 2012 - June 2015
August 2008 - May 2012
August 2005 - May 2007
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Publications (43)
OBJECTIVE
Adolescents who use the emergency department are more likely to engage in high-risk sexual activity and are at an increased risk of sexually transmitted infections. We aimed to increase testing for Chlamydia and gonorrhea from 12% to 50% among adolescents presenting to our pediatric emergency department with at-risk chief complaints over...
A common question during human trafficking trainings for healthcare professionals is, “If I suspect human trafficking, what do I do? How to I talk to and examine the patient?” As medical professionals, we’re trained to act, to problem solve, to cure illness, and to fix brokenness. So, it’s natural that our first question when considering patients w...
Objective: To assess the timing, duration, methodology, and content of human trafficking (HT) curricula in U.S. medical schools. Methods: An anonymous, cross-sectional survey was sent through email and phone to administrators of 199 U.S. allopathic and osteopathic medical schools. A supplementary survey was sent to students and faculty through emai...
Background:
Child labor trafficking is a largely unexplored and unpublished phenomenon in the United States.
Objective:
To 1) characterize the state of the science on child labor trafficking, and 2) identify empirical information regarding risk and protective factors, and physical/behavioral health needs of labor-trafficked children/adolescents....
To summarize available curricula and identify gaps in publicly available or published educational resources for healthcare professionals on labor and organ trafficking. The following databases were searched to January 2022: Cochrane, Embase, Google Scholar, Pubmed, Scopus, and Web of Science. Additional educational resources were added through snow...
Objectives
The objective of this study was to evaluate a CME-accredited human trafficking didactic and discussion-based training for healthcare professionals by comparing participant knowledge and attitudes on human trafficking before and after attending the training.
Methods
A novel 18-item survey was developed to test the knowledge of and attitu...
Human trafficking is a public health issue and humanitarian crisis. Most alarming is that children are especially at risk. Although many studies demonstrate that the majority of trafficked persons surveyed engage with the health-care system during the time in which they are trafficked, health-care practitioners lack the knowledge, tools and resourc...
This chapter highlights cases of trafficked persons who have presented to medical subspecialties. Although medical professionals are increasingly aware of human trafficking victims as they present to emergency departments, obstetrics and gynecology, and primary care, few medical subspecialists have noted cases of human trafficking. Many subspeciali...
A 17-year-old girl from Venezuela with no significant medical history presents to a New York City emergency department after a recent episode of syncope. She is disoriented and withdrawn, and her father speaks on her behalf. On physical exam, she is underweight with tachycardia, exhibits diffuse abdominal tenderness, and displays poor eye contact....
Human trafficking is an increasingly large issue in medicine, particularly for the adolescent population. The pubertal and neurologic development of early- and mid-adolescence may serves as a foothold for trauma bonds and human trafficking. To date, there are few case studies of human trafficking in the medical literature. More often, these cases a...
A 17-year-old girl from Venezuela with no significant medical history presents to a New York City emergency department after a recent episode of syncope. She is disoriented and withdrawn, and her father speaks on her behalf. On physical exam, she is underweight with tachycardia, exhibits diffuse abdominal tenderness, and displays poor eye contact....
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Study Objective
To explore whether sexting by young adolescent girls and boys is associated with adverse life experiences including exploitative or violent sexual relationships.
Design
and Setting: Cross-sectional, anonymous survey of a convenience sample of minor a...
https://www.jpagonline.org/article/S1083-3188(18)30102-5/pdf
Sexting is a common practice among high-school aged girls. It is debated whether sexting is a normative aspect of adolescent development or is associated with adverse life circumstances. We aimed to examine associations of sexting (defined as texting/emailing a sexually suggestive or naked picture) with sexual activity, mental health, drug use, arr...
The glutamatergic neurotransmitter system may play an important role in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This 5-week, open-label, single-blind, placebo-controlled study reports the safety, pharmacokinetics and responsiveness of the metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) activator fasoracetam (NFC-1), in 30 adolescents, age 12-17 ye...
A 17-year-old G1P0010 girl was referred to an adolescent medicine specialist by the emergency department (ED) for evaluation of chronic abdominal pain recurring over the past year after she was seen in the ED 2 days ago for cervicitis. She has a history of physical and sexual abuse, extensive psychiatric history, prescription narcotic abuse, gyneco...
The topic of child sex trafficking is receiving increased attention both in the lay press and in research articles. Recently, a number of physician organizations have issued policy statements calling for the education and involvement of physicians in combating this form of "modern-day slavery." Primary care and emergency medicine physicians have le...
Our aim was to assess: (1) medical trainee and practicing physician awareness about domestic sex trafficking of minors; and (2) whether respondents believe that awareness of trafficking is important to their practice.
We designed an anonymous electronic survey, and a convenience sample was collected from June through October 2013.
Voluntary partici...
Increasing chronological age is the most significant risk factor for human cancer development. To examine the effects of host aging on mammary tumor growth, we used caveolin (Cav)-1 knockout mice as a bona fide model of accelerated host aging. Mammary tumor cells were orthotopically implanted into these distinct microenvironments (Cav-1(+/+) versus...
Abstract This resource is a student team-taught surface anatomy program designed to provide a private and professional setting for first-year medical students to learn surface anatomy in small groups, where more time can be committed to answering student questions and concerns. Instructors were second-year medical students who systematically review...
The WHI study, its premature termination, and controversy over its findings have motivated patientsand physicians alike to seek lower-dose therapies for menopausal symptoms. Substantial data indicate that low-dose ET/EPT is effective in treating osteoporosis, hot flushes, vulvaginal dryness anditching, and sleeping difficulties. Furthermore, low-do...
The objective of this article is to study the effect of PC-815, a novel combination microbicide containing carrageenan and the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) MIV-150, in blocking HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections in vitro as compared with Carraguard alone.
The goal of this study was to develop a combination microbicide that is more...
This study proposes a method to assess voluntary alcohol drinking in socially living squirrel monkeys. Group-housed squirrel monkeys were induced to drink a sucrose solution and subsequently an ethanol/sucrose solution in an experimental chamber attached to the home colony room, allowing the daily intake to be monitored for each individual without...
