elcome to the Web Site for the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington. Headed by Wesley Van Voorhis, MD, the Division has long been prominent nationally and internationally, and currently consists of 73 full-time faculty members, 16 adjunct or affiliate faculty, and 55 clinical faculty. The faculty, whose research programs and interests are outlined in detail on their faculty webpages, include many international leaders in diverse subspecialty areas including phagocyte biology and function, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDs, viral diseases, infections in immunocompromised hosts, bacterial pathogenesis, geographic medicine, urinary tract infections and the molecular biology of infectious diseases. The total grant support obtained by Divisional faculty exceeds $135 million annually.  

Faculty are based at the University of Washington Medical Center and four affiliated institutions: Harborview Medical Center, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, The Puget Sound Veterans Affairs Health Care System, and Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center. Active programs in patient care, teaching and research are ongoing at each of these institutions. Research programs in global health are also ongoing in more than a dozen sites abroad.  

Through support provided by NIH-sponsored training grants, the Division has one of the largest and best known postdoctoral fellowship training programs in Infectious Diseases in the United States. Wesley Van Voorhis, MD, PhD, is the Training Program Director. Currently 25 fellows participate in the Training Program, with 7 to 10 new fellows accepted each year. The goals of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program are to provide the highest quality clinical and research training to provide fellows with the skills needed for a career in academic Infectious Diseases. Specific research training can be undertaken with an emphasis on laboratory investigation or clinical epidemiology in a wide variety of topics as outlined on our Special Programs webpages. More than 80% of past UW Infectious Diseases fellowship trainees have obtained faculty positions in academic medicine.  

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