UCLA-Affiliated Infectious Disease Program

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UCLA-Affiliated Infectious Disease Program

• http//www.infectiousdiseases-ucla-affiliated.org/

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UCLA-Affiliated Infectious Disease Program

• Sponsor
• The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
  Wadsworth VA
• 3 main training sites
• VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
• Over 800 beds combined
• Wide range of patients and infectious disease
• Approximately 15 full-time faculty

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UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease ProgramCareer
Tracks

• Clinical Infectious Disease
• HIV Medicine
• Laboratory research
• Health Services Research Delivery

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VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare
Systemhttp//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

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Centerhttp//www.cedars-sina
i.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

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Olive View-UCLA Medical Centerhttp//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

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UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease
ProgramTypical Fellowship Schedule

• 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
• Year Two
• Inpatient ID 3 4 months
• Continuity clinic research 7 8 months
• Vacation 1 month

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UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease
ProgramEducational activities

• Program wide conferences
• Case conference (1.5 hours, weekly)
• Core curriculum lecture (1 hour, 2 out of 4
  weeks)
• Hospital-based conferences
• Intramural case conferences
• Core curriculum lectures/ID Grand Rounds
• Journal clubs
• Research conferences
• Mandell reading club

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UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease
ProgramResearch training

• Areas of laboratory research
• HIV/AIDS clinical trials laboratory research
• Bacterial infections Leptospirosis, anaerobic
  infections, S. aureus
• Rapid diagnostics and molecular epidemiology
  uropathogens
• Clinical infectious diseases
• Case reports clinical series
• Other training opportunities
• Hospital epidemiology
• LAC-DHS acute communicable disease unit TB
  control
• Outcomes research/Health Services Research
  Development

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UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease ProgramOther
activities

• Support of attendance at national conferences
• IDSA
• ICAAC
• SHEA
• ASTMH
• Department social activities
• Meet-the-faculty picnic
• End of year lunch

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UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease Program

• Affiliation with Geffen School of Medicine at
  UCLA
• Broad clinical training at 3 hospitals
• Research training
• Laboratory projects
• Hospital epidemiology
• Public Health
• Health Services Research
• Clinical infectious disease
• Post-fellowship opportunities
• Visit our website at http//www.infectiousdiseases
  -ucla-affiliated.org/