Drexel University College of Medicine

Dr. Zsofi Szep is board certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases. She sees patients in Center City Philadelphia.

Prior to joining Drexel Medicine, Dr. Szep was affiliated with the Bryn Mawr Hospital in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and the Wilmington VA Medical Center Outpatient HIV Clinic in Wilmington, Delaware.

Awards and Honors

• NIH Training Grant (2007-2009)
• Penn Center For AIDS Research (CFAR), an NIH funded program, Pilot Grant (2008-present)
• 10th International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Lipodystrophy in HIV Scholarship, London, UK (November 2008)

Memberships

• Infectious Disease Society of America (2006-present)

Selected Publications and Abstracts

"Association between vitamin D deficiency and type 2 diabetes mellitus in an urban HIV population"
Szep Z, Tebas P, Lo Re V 3rd, Ratcliffe S, Amorosa V, Frank I, Shah S.
In Submission.

"Tuberculin Skin Test conversion rates among short term health care workers returning from Gaborone Botswana"
Szep Z, Kim R, Ratcliffe SJ, Gluckman S.
In Submission.

"Vitamin D deficiency is associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus among HIV infected patients"
Szep Z, Guaraldi G, Shah SS, Lo Re V 3rd, Ratcliffe SJ, Orlando G, Carli F, Rossi R, Rochira V, Tebas P.
AIDS 2011;25(4):531-3. PMID: 21178753

"Use of mobile telemedicine for cervical cancer screening"
Quinley KE, Gromely RH, Ratcliff SJ, Ting S, Szep Z, Steiner A, Ramogola-Masire, D, Kovarik CL.
J Telemed Telecare;17(4):203-9 PMID:21551217 (2011)

"Tuberculin skin test conversion rate among short term health care workers returning from Gaborone, Botswana"
Szep Z, Kim R, Ratcliffe S, Gluckman S.
12th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine. Boston, (May 2011)

"The use of mobile telemedicine for remote diagnosis in HIV infected patients in Botswana" (abstract)
C.L. Kovarik, R. Azfar, G. Cavric, Z. Szep, S. Ratcliffe, R.H. Gormley, J. Weinber, A. Steiner, R. Lee, L. Castelo-Soccio, K.E. Quinley and D. Ramogola-Masire
AIDSImpact 2009: 9th International Conference, Gaborone, Botswana (2009)

"Use of Mobile Telemedicine for Cervical Cancer Screening in Gaborone, Botswana" (abstract)
R.H. Gormley, K.E. Quinley, T. Shih, Z. Szep, A. Steiner, O. Ramogola-Masire and C.L. Kovarik
Infectious Agents and Cancer; 5(Suppl1):A86, (2010)

"Association of Serum Vitamin 0 levels and Type 2 OM in HIV Infection in the Modena Cohort" (abstract)
Z. Szep, G. Guaraldi, S.S. Shah, S. Ratcliffe, G. Orlando, N. Squillace, V. Rochera, B. Madeo, E. Barladi, G.C. Caran, R. Eposito and P. Tebas
10th International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Lipodystrophy in HIV, London, UK (November 2008)

"An atypical presentation of polymyositis" (abstract)
S. Domsky and Z. Szep
Journal of General Internal Medicine (April 2006)

"Acute pancreatitis as an initial presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus" (abstract)
K. Shenoy, Z. Szep and H. Shishodia
Journal of General Internal Medicine (April 2006)

"Recurrent leg pain, a case of Kaposi's sarcoma mimicking cellulitis" (abstract)
Z. Szep, M. Vandenberg, B. Taqui, H. Shishoidia, et al.
Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol 20, S1, 260 (April 2005)

Dr. Szep is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine. She previously served as an instructor in medicine at Temple University Hospital, where she served on the medical staff executive committee and the internal medicine residency selection committee.

• General Internal Medicine
• Infectious Diseases
• HIV

• AIDS
• HIV
• Infectious diseases

• Chief Medical Resident, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA (2005-2006)
• Internal Medicine - Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA (2002-2003)

• Internal Medicine - Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA (2003-2005)

• Clinical Epidemiology - Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2007-2009)
• Infectious Diseases - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2006-2008)