It Takes a Village: Finding Community Strategies to Combat the Opioid Crisis
9/27/2017
Reprinted from UVAToday, 9/22/17, by Katie McNally ** America’s sweeping opioid crisis has reached epidemic proportions in recent years, dominating national conversations on health care policy and politics. Expanding levels…
ID’s Heysell and Houpt Receive Award from National TB Controllers Association
6/1/2017
Infectious Diseases faculty members Scott Heysell, MD, and Eric Houpt, MD, were part of a collaborative team, with staff from the Virginia Department of Health, who jointly received the Robert…
Annex and Houpt Honored With Election to Association of American Physicians
4/23/2017
On Saturday, April 22, at the annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians in Chicago, DOM's Brian Annex, MD (chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine) and Eric Houpt, MD (DOM's vice chair…
ID & Biodefense Research Day 2017
4/21/2017
(Scroll down for slideshow.) ID & Biodefense Research Day 2017 was held on Monday, March 13th at Pinn Hall Conference Center. Organized by the Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health and…
ID News: Mathers “On a Roll”; Chief Bill Petri Appointed to Head WHO Polio Research Committee
4/19/2017
Amy Mathers is "On a Roll"... Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology Amy Mathers gave a presentation on “Leveraging clinical microbiology results in the management of resistant gram-negative infections” at the…
Celebrating Jerry Donowitz’s Tenure As Internal Medicine Residency Program Director
4/13/2017
Jerry Donowitz, MD, has run UVA's internal medicine residency program since 2000, and over that time has made profound and lasting contributions to its quality and reputation. As he prepares…
3/2/2017
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM Location: Pinn Hall Auditorium, 1-5 Mike Scheld, MD, is professor of medicine in the UVA Division of Infectious Diseases and International…
3/2/2017
Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM Location: Pinn Hall Auditorium, 1-5 Amy Mathers, MD, is associate professor of medicine in the UVA Division of Infectious Diseases and…
2/24/2017
Joanne Engel, MD, PhD, is chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and professor of medicine in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at U.C. San Francisco. More>>
Study By ID Team Shows How Bacteria Spread From Sink Drainpipes to Patients
2/24/2017
Many recent reports have found multidrug resistant bacteria living in hospital sink drainpipes, putting them in close proximity to vulnerable patients. But how the bacteria find their way out of…
