Jane Schwebke, MD completed her medical school and residency in Internal Medicine at
Northwestern University. She then completed a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the
University of Washington in Seattle where she began her research in STIs and vaginitis. She
served as Director of the City of Chicago STD Program until 1994 when she began her career at
the University of Alabama at Birmingham(UAB) in the Division of Infectious Diseases. While
there she was Medical Director for the Jefferson County STD Program and continued her
research in STD/vaginitis. Over the past 30 years she has concentrated her research on vaginitis,
especially trichomoniasis and bacterial vaginosis. She is currently a Professor Emeritus in the
Division of Infectious Diseases at UAB.