Clinical ServicesRichard L. Sweet, M.D. 
Clinical/Research Interests
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4860 Y St., Suite 2500
Sacramento, CA 95817
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Education:
Ann Arbor, Michigan
M.D. 1966
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
1962
Internships:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1967
Residency:
Ann Arbor, Michigan
1973
OB/GYN
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Professional Memberships:
Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology
Infectious Diseases Society of America
Honors and Awards:
Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (IDSOG), 2006
Best Doctors in America, 2003-2004. Selected by peers to be included in Best Doctors, Inc., database., 2003-2004
Joseph Susmann Award, Infectious Disease Society of America, Outstanding Investigation of Surgical Infections, 1984
Resident Day Award, Michigan Section, District V, Junior Fellow Division, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, for presentation on original paper, "Postpartum Infectious Morbidity", 1973
Select Recent Publications:
Sweet RL, Gibbs RS. Infectious Diseases of the Female Genital Tract. Lippincott Williams-Wilkins, Philadelphia, 5th ed., 2009.
Sweet RL. Treatment strategies for pelvic inflammatory disease. Expert Opin Pharmacother 10(5}:1-15, 2009.
Hutchinson KB, Kip KE, and Ness RB for the Gynecologic Infection Follow-Through (GIFT) investigators (Hillier SL, McGregor JA, Rice P, Richter HE, Soper DE, Stamm CA, Sweet RL). Vaginal douching and development of bacterial vaginosis among women with normal and abnormal vaginal microflora. Sex Transm Dis 34(9}:671-675, 2007.
Paik CK, Waetjen LE, Xing G, Dai J, and Sweet RL. Hospitalizations for pelvic inflammatory disease and tuboovarian abscess. Obstet Gynecol, 107(3):611-616, 2006.
Ness RB, Smith KJ, Chang CH, Schisterman EF, Bass DC, and GIFT Investigators (Hillier SL, McGregor JA, Rice P, Richter HE, Soper DE, Stamm CA, Sweet RL). Prediction of pelvic inflammatory disease among young, single, sexually active women. Sex Transm Dis, 33(3):137-142, 2006.
Ness RB, Smith KJ, Chang CH, Schisterman EF, Bass DC and GIFT Investigators (Hillier SL, McGregor JA, Rice P, Richter HE, Soper DE, Stamm CA, Sweet RU. Prediction of pelvic inflammatory disease among young, single, sexually active women. Sex Transm Dis 33(3):137-142, 2006.
Ness RB, Hillier SL, Kip KE, Richter HE, Soper DE, Stamm C, McGregor J, Bass DC, Sweet RL, and Rice P. Douching, pelvic inflammatory disease, and incident gonococcal and chlamydial cervicitis in a cohort of high-risk women. Am J Epidemiol, 161(2):186-195, 2005.
Ness RB, Kip KE, Soper DE, Hillier SL, Stamm CA, Sweet RL, Rice P, and Richter HE. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) and the risk of incident gonococcal or chlamydial genital infection in a predominantly Black population. Sex Transm Dis, 32(7):413-417, 2005.
Sutkin G, Krohn MA, Heine RP, and Sweet RL. Antibiotic prophylaxis and non-group B streptococcal neonatal sepsis. Obstet Gynecol, 105(3):581-586, 2005.
Wiesenfeld HC, Sweet RL, Ness RJ, Krohn MA, Amortegui AJ, and Hillier S. Comparison of acute and subclinical pelvic inflammatory disease. Sex Transm Dis, 32(7):400-405, 2005.
