Clinical Office:
University Medical Center, ID Center
2000 Canal Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
Bio
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 and was promoted to Professor in July of 2023.
Dr. Richey is an active member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, recently promoted to fellow status and serving as one of IDSA’s journal club writers. She is also an active member of the HIVMA’s Ryan White Coalition since 2021. She has both inpatient and outpatient clinical responsibilities and is responsible for teaching and mentoring the infectious disease fellows and internal medicine residents. Her outpatient clinical work provides primary and specialty care to people with HIV and her inpatient work covers the infectious disease consult service. Her primary clinical and research interests include people with HIV and factors affecting their linkage and retention in care. Also of interest are quality improvement and comorbidities such substance, tobacco, alcohol use disorders and their impact on outcomes of people with HIV. She has authored 17 peer-reviewed papers on HIV and over 45 national posters and presentations on HIV.
Dr. Richey serves as the medical director of the Infectious Disease Center at University Medical Center in New Orleans. The ID Center includes the HIV Outpatient Program which is a large HIV primary care clinic with over 1300 patients. The HIV Dental and HIV Prison telemedicine program add an additional 400 patients with HIV. HOP provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary HIV primary care delivered by a team of infectious diseases specialists from LSU and Tulane Schools of Medicine. The HIV Outpatient Program receives Ryan White Part A and C funds and Dr. Richey works closely with her grants team for our application renewals, required reporting, and meetings. The ID Center also has an active Hepatitis C treatment program, which sees around 800 patients a year. These many different programs have a multidisciplinary staff of over 75 people.
Education
Undergraduate:
2001 - B.S. in Biology, Minor in Chemistry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Graduate:
2006 - Master in Public Health, Concentration in Infectious Disease
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland
Medical:
2007 - M.D.
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Internship:
2008 - Internal Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana
Residency:
2010 - Internal Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana
Other:
2011 - Tropical Medicine Diploma Certificate
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana
Fellowship:
2012 - Infectious Diseases
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana
Affiliated Hospitals & Clinics
University Medical Center
Publications
1. Halperin J, Pathmanathan I, Richey LE. Disclosure of HIV Status to Social Networks Is Strongly Associated with Increased Retention Among an Urban Cohort in New Orleans. AIDS Patient Care and STDS 2013; 27(7):375-377.
2. Richey LE, Carpenter EJ, Barbeau JM, Hadi CM. Rapid HIV Testing in a New Orleans Emergency Department is Effective in Identifying New HIV Diagnoses and in Linking Patients to Care. Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society 2014:266(1).
3. Richey LE, Halperin J, Pathmanathan I, Van Sickels N, Seals PS. From Diagnosis to Engagement in HIV Care: Assessment and Predictors of Linkage and Retention in Care Among Patients Diagnosed by Emergency Department Based Testing in an Urban Public Hospital. AIDS Patient Care and STDS 2014; 28(6):277-279.
4. Bean MC, Richey LE, Williams K, Wahlquist A, Neitert P, Kilby JM. Tobacco Use Patterns in Southern HIV Clinic. Southern Medical Journal 2016;109(5):305-308.
5. Halperin J, Bean MC, Richey LE. Laboratory Markers Slightly Overestimate Retention in HIV Care Among Newly Diagnosed Individuals. AIDS Care 2016;28(9):1188-91.
6. Richey LE,Oh Y, Tchamba DM, Engle M, Formby L, Salgado CD. When Should Contact Precautions be Discontinued for Patients with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus? American Journal for Infection Control 2017;45(1):75-76.
7. Bean MC, Scott L, Kilby JM, Richey LE. Use of an Outreach Coordinator to Re-engage and Retain Patients with HIV Care. AIDS Patient Care and STDs 2017;31(5):222-226.
8. Bean MC, Scott L, Kilby JM, Richey LE. Use of an Outreach Coordinator to Re-engage and Retain Patients at Risk of Falling Out of Care. Does the Amount of Time Matter? AIDS Behavior 2017:22(1):321-324.
9. Halperin J, Katz M, Pathmanathan I, Myers L, Van Sickels N, Seal P, Richey LE. Earlier HIV Diagnosis Leads to Significantly Decreased Costs in the First Two Years of HIV Care in an Urban Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care. 2017;16(6):527-530.
10. Tolsen C, Richey LE, Zhao Y, Korte JE, Brady K, Haynes L, Meissner EG. Association of Substance Use with Hospitalization and Virologic Suppression in a Southern Academic HIV Clinic. American Journal of Medical Sciences 2018; 355(6):553-558.
11. Privette AR, White B, Ferguson PL, Norcross ED, Richey LE. A Different Form of Injury Prevention: Successful Screening and Referral for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C virus in a Trauma Population. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery2018; 85(5): 997-983.
12. Vrana-Diaz CJ, Korte JE, Gebregziabher M, Richey L, Selassie A, Sweat M, Gichangi A. Relationship Gender Equality and Couples’ Uptake of Oral Human Immunodeficiency Virus Self-Testing Kits Delivered by Pregnant Women in Kenya. Sex Tranm Dis 2019; Sep;46(9):588-593.
13. Cropsey KL, Haynes L, Bean M, Carpenter MJ, Richey LE. Delivery and Implementation of an Algorithm for Smoking Cessation Treatment for People Living with HIV and AIDS. AIDS Care 2020; 32(2):223-229.
Research
Factors affecting linkage and retention in care for people living with HIV
HIV related comorbidities such as substance, tobacco and alcohol use disorders