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UCLA-Affiliated Infectious Disease
Program
http://www.infectiousdiseases-ucla-affiliated.org/
UCLA-Affiliated Infectious Disease Program
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Sponsor
• The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
“Wadsworth VA”
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3 main training sites
• VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
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Over 800 beds combined
• Wide range of patients and infectious disease
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Approximately 15 full-time faculty
UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program
Career Tracks
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Clinical Infectious Disease
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HIV Medicine
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Laboratory research
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Health Services Research & Delivery
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
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
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
UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program
Typical Fellowship Schedule
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Year One
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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
Year Two
• Inpatient ID: 3 – 4 months
• Continuity clinic & research: 7 – 8 months
• Vacation: 1 month
UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program
Educational activities
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Program wide conferences:
• Case conference (1.5 hours, weekly)
• Core curriculum lecture (1 hour, 2 out of 4 weeks)
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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
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Areas of laboratory research
• HIV/AIDS clinical trials & laboratory research
• Bacterial infections: Leptospirosis, anaerobic infections, S. aureus
• Rapid diagnostics and molecular epidemiology: uropathogens
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Clinical infectious diseases
• Case reports & clinical series
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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
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Support of attendance at national conferences
• IDSA
• ICAAC
• SHEA
• ASTMH
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Department social activities
• Meet-the-faculty picnic
• End of year lunch
UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program
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Affiliation with Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
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Broad clinical training at 3 hospitals
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Research training
• Laboratory projects
• Hospital epidemiology
• Public Health
• Health Services Research
• Clinical infectious disease
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Post-fellowship opportunities
Visit our website at http://www.infectiousdiseases-ucla-affiliated.org/