Division of Infectious Diseases

Division Director: Simon, Gary, MD, PhD
Fellowship Director: Simon, Gary, MD, PhD

The Division of Infectious Diseases offers clinical, teaching and research activities aimed at training physicians for both clinical and academic careers in infectious diseases.

Patient Care Services

The patient care activities of the Division of Infectious Diseases include both outpatient and inpatient activities at three hospitals. Fellows rotate through the George Washington University Hospital, the Washington Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health. The various consultative services provide fellows with the opportunity to actively participate in evaluating and treating patients with a variety of infectious diseases. Consultative services are provided to the medical, surgical, and subspecialty surgical services as well as the obstetrics and gynecology service at GWUH. The consultation team consists of an attending physician, one or two fellows, one or two medical residents, and two or three medical students. In addition to inpatient services, fellows, residents and faculty maintain an active daily outpatient clinic. The outpatient Travelers’ Clinic offers counseling and immunizations for travelers.

Teaching Program

The division offers a two-year fellowship training program in infectious disease, with an option for an additional year of research. The two-year program consists of 13 to 14 months of clinical experience, including basic training in epidemiology and microbiology, and 10 to 11 months of research. Areas of research range from basic bench research to epidemiologic investigations. Fellows can choose subspecialty electives in such areas as pediatric infectious diseases, geographic medicine, and trauma. Each fellow selects a faculty member who serves as a research preceptor and helps the fellow to develop his or her research project. Faculty research interests include clinical and basic science aspects of HIV infection, the role of cytokines in disease progression, metabolic complications of anti-retroviral therapy, role of statins in infectious disease, new antiretroviral agents and new approaches to the treatment of opportunistic infections, septic shock, staphylococcal infections, phagocyte function, anaerobic infections, pathogenesis of intestinal protozoal infections, tuberculosis, antibiotic resistance and clinical trials.

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Faculty

Gary L. Simon, MD, PhD
Walter G. Ross Professor of Clinical Research; Professor of Medicine, of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine; Division Director, Infectious Diseases; Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine; Director, GW HIV/AIDS Institute
Fields of Interest: HIV infection, Metabolic Complications of Antiretroviral Therapy, Cytokines and Other Inflammatory Mediators, Phagocyte Function, Host Defense Mechanisms, Septic Shock

Debra Benator, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Fields of Interest: HIV Infection, Tuberculosis

Cynthia Gibert, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Fields of Interest: HIV infection, Metabolic Complications of Antiretroviral Therapy

Fred Gordin, MD
Professor of Medicine; Section Chief, Washington VA Hospital
Fields of Interest: HIV Infection, Tuberculosis

Allan Greenberg, MD, MPH
Professor and Chairman, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Professor of Medicine
Fields of Interest: HIV/AIDS, Epidemiology, Tropical Medicine

Peter Hotez, MD, PhD
Walter G. Ross Professor of Basic Research; Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine; Professor of Medicine and of Pediatrics
Fields of Interest: Parasite Immunology, Vaccines for Parasitic Infections, Hookworm

Virginia Kan, MD
Professor of Medicine
Fields of Interest: HIV Infection, Viral Resistance, Fungal Infections

Ann Labriola, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Fields of Interest: HIV Infection, Cytokines

Angelike Liappis, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine
Fields of Interest: AIDS, HIV Infection, Sepsis and Host Defenses, Role of Statins in Infectious Diseases

David M. Parenti, MD, MScCTM
Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine; Director, Travelers Clinic
Fields of Interest: HIV Infection, Opportunistic Infections, Antibiotic Resistance, Tropical Medicine

Afsoon D. Roberts, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine
Fields of Interest: HIV infection, Lipid Metabolism, and HIV Infection

Carmelita U. Tuazon, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Fields of Interest: Staphylococcal Infections, Infections in Drug Abusers, Opportunistic Infections in AIDS, Schistosomiasis

Last Updated: October 15, 2006