UCLA-Affiliated Infectious Disease Program
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
UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program Career Tracks l Clinical Infectious Disease l HIV Medicine l Laboratory research l Health Services Research & Delivery
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System 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
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 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
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center 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
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
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
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
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
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