Infectious Disease

The specialty of Infectious Disease involves the diagnosis and treatment of the whole range of infections, including viruses, bacteria, tuberculosis, fungi, and parasites that may involve any organ system in the body or the patient as a whole. In addition, as Infectious Disease physicians, we are often called upon to help evaluate patients with fever in order to determine whether the source is secondary to infection or a non-infectious cause such as due to medications, tumors, or autoimmune disease.

Our Infectious Disease specialists have training which includes four years of medical school, a year of internship, two or three years of residency training in Internal Medicine, and another two or three years of specialty training in Infectious Diseases.  Our Infectious Disease specialists view their responsibility as diagnosing and treating individual patients with fever or infection, they believe we have a responsibility to the community as a whole in terms of keeping the Hospital environment safe, and optimizing the health of the community at large.

Services include:

• Outpatient antibiotic therapy
• Diagnosis and treatment of HIV
• Diagnosis and treatment of Hepatitis C
• Diagnosis and management of a whole range of infections
• Medication adherence nurse
• Nutrition services

Our Infectious Disease specialists are located at Chase Outpatient Center, 160 Robbins Street.