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The University of Washington Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, within the Department of Medicine, is a well-established division with 72 full-time faculty members, 18 adjunct or affiliate faculty members, and 55 clinical faculty.

Our Vision

• Advance the Division by optimally adapting to changing opportunities to retain excellence
• Develop research in unique and emerging areas
• Encourage clinical prowess
• Provide an outstanding training environment for:
  • UW ID Fellows, Medical Residents, Medical Students, Graduate Students,and Postdoctoral Fellows
• Support excellent administrative service in order to facilitate stellar accomplishments

Our Strengths

Alumni success in academic medicine & many other pursuits

• 80% graduates in academic medicine all over USA and world
  • Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), The Johns Hopkins Hospital, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), etc
• Remaining are leaders in their fields
  • Leaders of Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
  • Leaders of President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
  • Leaders of Units at World Health Organization (WHO)

Strongest research Division in UW Department of Medicine

• Faculty
  • Strong international reputation
  • Leaders in professional societies, funding, and journal publications
• Grant Direct Awards are $40 million per year
• Research foci with interdisciplinary engagement:
  • STD/HIV: global and domestic (UW Center for AIDS Research & UW Department of Global Health)
  • Infections in immunocompromised hosts (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Seattle Cancer Care Alliance / Solid organ transplantation (SOTx))
  • Biodefense/gram negative bacteria (RCE)
  • Host response to infection
  • Vaccine development ( WAVA / VIDI - Washington Vaccine Alliance)
  • Parasitology/drug development
  • Microbiomes in health and disease

AID Faculty Research Grants: Examples from 2008-2010

• Biodefense Center: Sam Miller
• WAVA/LSDF: Larry Corey & Sheila Lukehart
• NIH Specialized Center of Research (SCOR): Molecular and Epidemiologic Basis of UTI in Women
• New R awards: Heidi Crane, Mary Lampe, Joanne Stekler, Pat Totten , Wes Van Voorhis, & Anna Wald
• CDC Awards: Judd Walson
• Gates Awards: Connie Celum & Jared Baeten

Our Future

Strengthen Core Mission

• Strengthen biodefense, host defense, emerging id research, & vaccines
• Recruit in pandemic flu & resistant bacteria
• Co-recruit with other units, such as Seattle Children's, Immunology, & Microbiology
• Growth in regional HIV care centers: model for US care in HIV

Develop CERID: South Lake Union

• Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
• Faculty: AID, Microbiology, Immunology, others

Form Alliances for International ID

• Dept of Global Health
• Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
• Infectious Diseases Research Institute
• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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