Faculty

Paul Pottinger, MD, DTM&H

• Associate Professor of Medicine
• University of Washington

Dr. Pottinger is an Associate Professor in the ID Division's Clinician-Educator Pathway. He is Associate Director of the ID Training Program, where his efforts focus on optimizing the training experience for the first-year ID fellows. He also directs the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at UWMC, which aims to improve the use of anti-infective medications for the complex and heterogeneous patient population there. He also directs the UWMC Tropical Medicine & General ID Clinic, which brings ID fellows into contact with patients being treated for a broad variety of infectious diseases, including illnesses among returning travelers, patients requiring follow up while undergoing outpatient IV antibiotic treatment, and congenitally immunosuppressed patients. He attends on the UWMC inpatient General ID Consult Service, Solid Organ Transplantation ID Consult Service, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance ID Consult service, and General Medicine Ward service. He is collaborating with colleagues at UW, Johns Hopkins, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, KCMC in Moshi Tanzania, and Makerere in Kampala Uganda to bring a comprehensive tropical medicine training course to East Africa. He is the author of numerous textbook chapters, papers, and abstracts dedicated to topics in general ID. He is a reviewer for the IDSA Journal Club. He directs and teaches a variety of courses at the School of Medicine, and delivers approximately 40 formal lectures per year to students, residents, fellows, and attendings. He has earned a reputation as an outstanding teacher, and has won the Beeson Housestaff Teaching Award and was named 2010's Outstanding CME Teacher of the Year.

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