Education
Open Fellowship Position starting July, 2015!
Interested candidates should contact Dr. Hayley Gans at hagans@stanford.edu or (650) 723-5682.
The Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine has an opening for a first year fellow beginning July 1, 2015. For more information, please contact Dr. Hayley Gans, Fellowship Program Director, at hagans@stanford.edu and/or Valerie Berland, Fellowship Coordinator at vberland@stanford.edu (650-723-5682).
We offer a three-year accredited fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases. The program is designed to prepare the board eligible/certified pediatrician for a career in pediatric infectious diseases and to exceed all requirements set forth by the American Board of Pediatrics for subspecialty certification. Clinical training is at the state-of-the-art Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and includes both inpatient and outpatient experiences with opportunities to develop a personal panel of continuity patients. The clinical experience is robust, encompassing the full spectrum of infectious diseases in healthy children as well as infections in children with chronic disorders and a large population of immunocompromised hosts. The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford is one of the largest transplant centers, and has large intensive care and surgical populations. In addition, the patient population is diverse allowing for exposure to tropical diseases and travel related infections. The goal of fellowship training is to provide the full spectrum of skills that fellows need for post-fellowship positions, including infection control, antimicrobial stewardship, transplant infectious diseases, global health, quality improvement and diagnostic laboratory techniques, and research. In addition, each fellow is expected to complete both a quality improvement and scholarly project determined by the individual interests of the fellow. The fellowship includes one year of clinical time and two years devoted to scholarship spread across the 3 years of training. The Pediatric Infectious Diseases faculty are diverse, providing outstanding teaching and research exposures.
The program is designed to train fellows for careers in academic medicine. Intensive training in laboratory research is a major emphasis, with focus on learning techniques of molecular biology, clinical and moleculer epidemiology, and clinical trails as applied to studies of human viral disease and the host response to viral infection. Fellow spend a total of 12 months on the clinical service during a three or four year training period, and participate in teaching activities when on service. The clinical service includes interaction with medical students, pediatric and surgical residents and attendings. Each fellow is expected to plan and carry out a project either in clinical or basic science research. Collaborative research and teaching activities exist with the Department of Microbiology/Immunology and Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and Geographic Medicine. The clinical experience is broad, including infectious diseases of otherwise healthy children, as well as infections in children with chronic and/or immunosuppressive disorders. The breadth of clinical syndromes includes tropical medicine given our geographich area and active travel within our community. Clinical training is at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and includes both inpatient and outpatient experiences with opportunities to develop a personal patient panel. Fellows also gain experience in infection control and diagnostic microbiology laboratory techniques.
All clinical teaching faculty (Drs. Amieva, Chen, Gans, Gutierrez, Hong, Lewis, Maldonado, Pizzo, and Prober) participate in the weekly clinical infectious diseases conference as well as the weekly combined Pediatric/Adult Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds. During their months on the pediatric infectious diseases clinical rotation, each attending participates directly with general pediatric and subspecialty resident education by providing lectures, participating in group discussions, making daily ward rounds, patient care activities, and consultations. Dr. Cornelia Dekker is a Faculty member in the Research Line of the Division of Infectious Diseases and interacts with subspecialty residents as a research mentor throughout the year.
