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Pediatric Infectious Disease
Tulane / LSU Joint Fellowship Training Program in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
The Tulane/LSU Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program incorporates the clinical resources and laboratory facilities of the Tulane University and the LSU Health Science Centers. We have an integrated clinical infectious diseases service, shared research activities, and a combined teaching program. This unique affiliation of two regional medical centers represents a major strength our program.
The first year of fellowship training emphasizes the acquisition of expertise in clinical infectious diseases. We provide services at four major pediatric hospitals in New Orleans: Tulane University Hospital, Tulane Lakeside Hospital, Children's Hospital of New Orleans, and the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (MCLNO) University Hospital. Tulane University Hospital and Tulane Lakeside Hospitals serve as the private teaching Hospitals for the Tulane School of Medicine. These four hospitals provide the training program with a unique balance of general pediatric patients and subspecialty patients.
Tulane Hospital is the only private tertiary-care university hospital in New Orleans. It has a 17 bed pediatric ward and an 11- bed pediatric intensive care unit. The Tulane obstetrical service, well baby nursery, a 20 bed neonatal intensive care unit, and the pediatric outpatient clinics are located at Lakeside Hospital.
Children's Hospital is a 210 bed pediatric hospital affiliated with LSU School of Medicine. Children's Hospital has a 25 bed pediatric intensive care unit, a 36 bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a pediatric rehabilitation unit.
University Hospital includes an obstetrical service, a well-baby nursery, and a NICU. The pediatric and adolescent HIV primary care and research programs are based at the MCLNO.
Weekly infectious diseases clinics are held at Lakeside Hospital and Children's Hospital, with pediatric HIV primary care and research clinics held at MCLNO. In addition, we staff a weekly pediatric tuberculosis clinic for the State of Louisiana. Weekly teaching conferences include microbiology laboratory rounds, a research/pathophysiology/journal club conference, a clinical pediatric infectious diseases case conference, and a citywide infectious diseases conference.
During the first year of training, fellows spend six to eight months on the clinical infectious diseases service under the direct supervision of a full-time faculty member. An additional one or two months is spent acquiring skills in clinical microbiology and virology. The remainder of the first year is devoted to an introduction to clinical and laboratory research in infectious diseases. Fellows have the opportunity to work in the laboratory of a member of the division. In addition, the laboratories of members of the Departments of Microbiology at Tulane and LSU, the Tulane School of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, and the Delta Regional Primate Center are available to train fellows. The program is closely affiliated with the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and fellows have the option of earning an M.P.H. during their training.
The majority of the second and third years of fellowship is spent in pursuing an individual research project in preparation for a career as an independent investigator. Senior fellows are given the opportunity to function as a consultant at the attending level.
There are six faculty members in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Tulane and one at LSU. Dr. Russell Van Dyke is head of pediatric infectious diseases at Tulane; his research interests include pediatric HIV infections, respiratory syncytial virus, and antiviral chemotherapy. He directs the Tulane/LSU Pediatrics AIDS Clinical Trials Unit. Dr. Rodolfo Begue is head of pediatric infectious diseases at LSU. His research interests include enteric infections, including Helicobacter pylori, and vaccine development. Dr. Thomas Alchediak has a joint appointment in Infectious Diseases and Ambulatory Pediatrics. He is director of the Pediatric HIV primary care program and participates in the pediatric HIV research program. Dr. Edward Morse is a behaviorist with joint appointments in the Departments of Sociology and Pediatrics. His research interests include behavioral aspects of clinical trials such as risk reduction, compliance issues, and intervention strategies. Dr. Richard Oberhelman has a joint appointment in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Department of Tropical Medicine of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He studies the pathogenesis and epidemiology of infectious diarrhea and tuberculosis in developed and developing countries. Dr. Margarita Silio conducts clinical trials among HIV-infected children and teaches in the Department of Tropical Medicine.
For more information, please contact:
James Robinson, MD
Program Director
jrobinso@tulane.edu
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Tulane University School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112 |
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