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1 UCLA-Affiliated Infectious Disease Program http://www.infectiousdiseases-ucla-affiliated.org/

2 UCLA-Affiliated Infectious Disease Program l Sponsor The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System “Wadsworth VA” l 3 main training sites VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Olive View-UCLA Medical Center l Over 800 beds combined Wide range of patients and infectious disease l Approximately 15 full-time faculty

3 UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program Career Tracks l Clinical Infectious Disease l HIV Medicine l Laboratory research l Health Services Research & Delivery

4 VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System http://www.gla.med.va.gov/ Matthew B Goetz (Chief): HIV/AIDS David Beenhouwer: Cryptococcus, MRSA Sidney Finegold: Anaerobic infections Jacob Fleischmann: Fungal infections and host defense W Lance George: Clostridium difficile, other enteric pathogens David Haake: Leptospirosis, rapid diagnostics David Rhew: Evaluating quality of care, medical informatics William Schwartzman: Infection Control, hospital epidemiology

5 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/ W David Hardy (Chief): HIV clinical trials & vaccine development Paula Gaut: HIV therapeutics Rehka Murthy: Epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance Peter Ruane: AIDS Phil Zakowski: Transplant infectious diseases

6 Olive View-UCLA Medical Center http://www.uclasfvp.org/ Glenn Mathisen (Chief): Tropical medicine; CNS infections Suzanne Donovan: Infection Control; HIV in women Arthur Jeng: Skin/soft tissue infection Gregory Moran: Bioterrorism; ER infections David Talan: ER infections; animal bite wounds

7 UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program Typical Fellowship Schedule l Year One VA inpatient ID: 2 months CSMC inpatient ID: 2 months OVMC inpatient ID: 2 months Outpatient ID: 2 months Transplant infectious diseases 1 month Micro Laboratory & Hospital epidemiology 1 month (1/2 day each) Continuity clinic & research: 1 month Vacation 1 month l Year Two Inpatient ID: 3 – 4 months Continuity clinic & research: 7 – 8 months Vacation: 1 month

8 UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program Educational activities l Program wide conferences: Case conference (1.5 hours, weekly) Core curriculum lecture (1 hour, 2 out of 4 weeks) l Hospital-based conferences Intramural case conferences Core curriculum lectures/ID Grand Rounds Journal clubs Research conferences Mandell reading club

9 UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program Research training l Areas of laboratory research HIV/AIDS clinical trials & laboratory research Bacterial infections: Leptospirosis, anaerobic infections, S. aureus Rapid diagnostics and molecular epidemiology: uropathogens l Clinical infectious diseases Case reports & clinical series l Other training opportunities Hospital epidemiology LAC-DHS acute communicable disease unit & TB control Outcomes research/Health Services Research & Development

10 UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program Other activities l Support of attendance at national conferences IDSA ICAAC SHEA ASTMH l Department social activities Meet-the-faculty picnic End of year lunch

11 UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program l Affiliation with Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA l Broad clinical training at 3 hospitals l Research training Laboratory projects Hospital epidemiology Public Health Health Services Research Clinical infectious disease l Post-fellowship opportunities Visit our website at http://www.infectiousdiseases-ucla-affiliated.org/


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