Services
Fellowship
Faculty
Research

The infectious diseases section is comprised of 11 infectious diseases faculty and two fellows in training. Of the faculty, two  are full-time hospital Iinfectious diseases attendings, four are in a private infectious diseases  practice and four are full-time attendings in the HIV medicine program.
 
The section provides inpatient consultative service as well as outpatient care for HIV-infected patients and patients with other infectious diseases related issues.

Services:
HIV infection and the associated complications make up a significant portion of the illness treated by the group. Other common conditions include nosocomial infections, post-operative infections, community-acquired pneumonia and skin and skin structure infections, osteomyelitis, infections in patients with immunocompromising conditions other than HIV, endocarditis, Lyme disease, Ehrichiosis, etc.

The private practice group has a busy travel medicine practice and they are also involved in the treatment of patients at St. Vincent's Wound Care clinic.

Fellowship Progarm:
It is a two-year fellowship with one fellow per year. The first  year is spent primarily doing inpatient infectious diseases consultations (10 months) and one month in the microbiology lab. The second year is devoted to research (six months), working with the private practice group (two to three months), a solid-organ transplant rotation (one month) and one month of elective. During the second year fellows also go to meetings, both international and national, and board review courses.

Throughout the two years of training the fellows attend a weekly half day continuity of care clinic where they build up a panel of 30 to 40 patients (mainly HIV-infected) whom they see on a regular basis and to whom they provide primary care.

We participate in the NRMP through ERAS.

Faculty:

• Jay W. Kislak - section Chief
• Glenn Turett - Fellowship training program director
• Jill Nord - ID attending
• William Mandell - senior partner private practice; head of Infection Control committee
• Dennis Karter - private practice
• David Bekhor - private practice
• Joseph Rahimian - private practice
• Oscar Klein - HIV medicine
• Livette Johnson - HIV medicine
• Rita Chow - HIV medicine
• Amarilis Lugo - HIV medicine

Research:
Each fellow is required to do at least one significant (publishable) research project with one or more faculty mentors. The fellows are also encouraged to write up interesting case reports, and they typically present their work at International Infectious Diseases meetings.

Examples of recent fellow's projects include:
‘A description of 100 men with community-acquired MRSA skin and skin structure infections.'
‘The effect of intranasal mupirocin on the incidence of post-sternotomy S. aureus wound infections.'
‘Antibiotic-associated colitis caused by S. aureus.'
‘The use of polymyxin B to treat multidrug-resistant gram negative infections.'

Most of these projects require no outside funding.