The Section of Infectious Diseases conducts one of the busiest consultation and teaching services at the medical center.
Residents have the opportunity to see and discuss a wide range of adult infectious disease problems.
In addition, they attend a weekly pediatric infectious disease conference. Conferences are held within the Section four days each week and residents on the elective attend Clinical Microbiology Rounds in the laboratory three days a week. The Section also operates a travel and immunization clinic. Research interest include alterations of drug protein binding in disease states, novel mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance, clinical epidemiology, clinical applications of new antimicrobial agents and infections complicating cancer. Two of the Section members are also in the Section of HIV Medicine and participate in the HIV ambulatory clinic.