About Us
The Division of Infectious Diseases at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University is comprised of many full-time and cross-appointed faculty members. The Division plays an instrumental role in the provision of state-of-the-art clinical care, medical education, and research in Southwestern Ontario, and is home to the fully-accredited Royal College Fellowship Program in Infectious Diseases, with an average cohort of 8 residents spanning the two-year training curriculum. Several Faculty members hold cross appointments in other Departments, including Microbiology & Immunology, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and many have additional formal training in Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Public Health, Healthcare Quality Improvement, and/or Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.
Clinical interests of Faculty members include but are not limited to Antimicrobial Resistance, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Viral Hepatitis, HIV, Infections in Inner-City Health, Tropical Medicine, Infections in Developing Countries, Transplant Infectious Diseases, Infection Prevention and Control, and Medical Microbiology. The emerging understanding of the impact of the human microbiome on health is another area of clinical and research interest.
The Division collaborates extensively with other internal and external programs, including the Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Division of Microbiology (Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine), Pharmacy Services at Schulich's at London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph's Health Care London, Middlesex-London Health Unit, and Public Health Ontario.
