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 members contribute to clinical, educational, research, and scholarship goals that serve our patients, learners, and communities. Our faculty utilizes its diverse interests and experiences to provide expert, compassionate inpatient consultations and ambulatory care. Our division’s members also receive grants for research from various sources including the Health Resources and Services Administration and the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (WVCTSI).
Our Musculoskeletal Infectious Diseases Program continues to expand, along with our telehealth programs that serve patients at other institutions in the state. Our division provides excellent care across the treatment continuum via our very active Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) and Complex Oral 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.
Our faculty members are national leaders in education, service and research.
Our West Virginia Hepatitis Academic Mentoring Partnership trains primary care providers in West Virginia to deliver reliable care and prescribe treatment to patients with hepatitis C throughout the state.
Further, our Global Health Program imparts essential skills and competencies in clinical tropical medicine, laboratory medicine, epidemiology and disease control, and travel health. Students, residents, and fellows in the program 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 or a critical care concentration via an ACGME-approved combined Infectious Diseases-Critical Care fellowship.
Finally, our fellows benefit from our robust Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship programs which serve both our flagship academic medical center and our system of 26 hospitals in four states. Fellows have access to advanced didactic and experiential learning, service and research opportunities.
As our programs expand, we remain enthusiastic about opportunities to enhance all our missions throughout the state of West Virginia and surrounding region.
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
