Bio
Dr. Holtom is a long-time member of the faculty of the Keck School of Medicine at USC and maintains a number of integral roles in the Division of Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Holtom remains deeply committed to the educational process and as such is the Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Clinical Fellowship Training Program. He also gives approximately 20 pre-clinical lectures each year to the Keck School of Medicine medical students and numerous other lectures to the USC Physician Assistant School. He has recently implemented an innovative expansion of the fellowship program. Interested fellows can now pursue extended training in clinical and translational research, in preparation for academic careers.

Further, Dr. Holtom serves as the Hospital Epidemiologist for LAC+USC Medical Center, Chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee for the Hospital, and Director of the Jeanette Wilkins Memorial Microbiology Laboratory, both at LAC+USC Medical Center.

In conjunction with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at USC, Dr. Holtom has accumulated extensive clinical and investigative background in the evaluation and management of bone and joint infections. Generated from this, Dr. Holtom has produced substantial body of publications in both the Orthopaedic and Infectious Diseases literature. In this process, he has emerged as a leading authority on the subject and served recently as the President of the Musculoskeletal Infection Society.

Finally, as a product of his clinical experience serving the residents of Saipan in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands during his service in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC), Dr. Holtom maintains interest and certification in Tropical Medicine.

Education
Doctor of Medicine, Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1980

Internships
LAC+USC Medical Center-Categorical Medicine , 1980 - 1981

Residencies
LAC+USC Medical Center - Internal Medicine, 1981 - 1983

Fellowships
LAC+USC Medical Center - Infectious Diseases, 1989 - 1990

Board Certification
American Board of Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases, 1992
American Board of Internal Medicine, 1983

Professional Society Memberships
Infectious Disease Society of America
American College of Physicians
Musculoskeletal Infection Society
Alpha Omega Alpha
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
American Society for Microbiology
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Language Abilities
Spanish

Clinical Interests
Infectious Disease