Patient Care and Clinical Innovation

Our faculty are recognized authorities in the diagnosis and treatment of the following:

• Infections with resistant organisms
• HIV/AIDS
• Hepatitis
• Meningitis
• Osteomyelitis
• Emerging infections
• Tropical diseases

We also offer experienced subspecialty care for patients in Parkland Hospital's burn recovery unit, the UT Southwestern transplant programs and the North Texas VA Medical Center spinal cord unit. Parkland is also home to one of the largest HIV clinics in the nation, providing us the ability to offer specialized inpatient service to people with HIV and opportunistic infections, malignancies, and other conditions. Our Division develops and implements innovative practice models, such as our self-administered Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Program, designed to fit the changing needs of patients and physicians in the field.

Research in Basic and Clinical Sciences

Our faculty perform cutting-edge clinical, translational, and basic science research in an outstanding research environment. Research within the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine has emphasized the pathogenesis and treatment of HIV, hepatitis C, and TB. We also offer research expertise in infectious disease epidemiology, correctional health, infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship, central nervous system infections, respiratory tract infections, and musculoskeletal infections.

Postdoctoral Training and Education

We offer a rigorous fellowship training program dedicated to producing academic physicians of exceptional caliber that combines extensive training in the management of a wide variety of infectious diseases with in-depth, mentored research training in the clinical or basic sciences. Our award-winning faculty also oversee an Ambulatory Infectious Diseases and Inpatient Infectious Disease curriculum for resident trainees.