Message from the Division Chief
At the WVU Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases, we are proud to be a part of the state’s largest health system. Our Mission is to improve the health of all we serve through excellence in infectious disease service, education, and research.
Our members contribute to clinical, educational, research, and scholarship goals that serve our patients, learners, and communities. Our faculty utilizes its diverse interests and expertise to provide expert, compassionate inpatient and outpatient care. Our faculty members include national leaders in education, service, and research.
Our Musculoskeletal Infectious Diseases Program continues to expand, along with our Telehealth program that serves patients across West Virginia. Our division provides excellent care across the treatment continuum via our active Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) and Complex Outpatient Antibiotic Therapy (COpAT) programs. Since 2003, our HRSA-funded Ryan White HIV program has provided HIV care to patients in the 33 northern counties of West Virginia.
We maintain a busy Hepatitis C treatment clinic and also train primary care providers across West Virginia to deliver reliable care and treatment to patients with hepatitis C via the West Virginia Hepatitis Academic Mentoring Partnership.
Our Global Health Program imparts essential skills and competencies in clinical tropical medicine, laboratory medicine, epidemiology and disease control, and travel health. The program's students, residents, and fellows gain access to in-depth global health education with international rotations in Guatemala, Ghana, Italy, Jamaica, Paraguay, Fiji, and Brazil. Accredited by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, our Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health course is one of only eight such programs in the United States.
Our Infectious Diseases Fellowship guides two fellows per year in becoming compassionate and competent clinicians in Infectious Diseases. As a quaternary referral center for West Virginia and surrounding states, fellows within our division are exposed to a diverse patient population including immunocompromised hosts, infections associated with injection drug use, and much more. Fellows also have the option to pursue other areas of interest such as global health, infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship or critical care via an ACGME-approved combined Infectious Diseases-Critical Care fellowship.
Our division also contributes to robust Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship programs which serve both our flagship academic medical center and our system of 26 hospitals in four states. Students, residents, and fellows have access to advanced didactic and experiential learning, service, and research opportunities in both disciplines.
Our faculty are involved in pragmatic, mission-focused clinical translational research and maintain a diverse grant portfolio. Division faculty and fellows work closely with the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (WVCTSI).
As our programs expand, we remain enthusiastic about opportunities to enhance all our missions throughout the state of West Virginia and beyond.
Sincerely,
Michael Stevens, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA, FACP
Professor of Internal Medicine, WVU School of Medicine
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
System Healthcare Epidemiologist
Associate CQO for Infection Prevention & Antimicrobial Stewardship, WVU Health System
