Department of Internal Medicine: Infectious Diseases

Jack T. Stapleton, MD, Interim Director

• AIDS Consultation Service. The HIV program offers both primary and consultative interdisciplinary HIV care, and patient access to HIV-related clinical trials.
• General Infectious Diseases Service. Offers complete inpatient and outpatient consultation services for the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients with infectious diseases.
• Musculoskeletal Infectious Diseases Service. Provides prevention, treatment and follow-up of patients with a variety of bone and joint infections in an outpatient and inpatient setting.
• Transplant Infectious Disease Service. Supports the multidisciplinary solid organ transplant program through consultation focused on pre-transplant infectious diseases screening, post-transplant infectious diseases related inpatient and outpatient care, and protocol development.
• Travel Medicine Clinic. Provides preventive health care for people planning to travel abroad based on the traveler’s personal health history and planned itinerary. Extensive counseling covers general and region-specific measures for staying well. Vaccine recommendations are discussed and provided, and prescriptions given for travelers’ diarrhea, malaria prevention if needed, or other medications indicated because of pre-existing illness or environmental exposures. Travelers receive pertinent U.S. State Department warnings and medical emergency phone numbers.
• Tuberculosis. Experts in the infectious diseases clinic and the tuberculosis chest clinic see patients with tuberculosis. Negative pressure rooms are available for inpatients with active tuberculosis.