The Division of Infectious Diseases (ID) provides care and consultation in all the major venues served by the Department of Medicine.

LAC+USC Medical Center: The Division continues to provide a very active consultation service, seeing approximately 2,000 new consultations each year. These patients are followed in the hospital seven days per week and in the Rand Schrader Clinic when appropriate. The Division is also responsible for the medical operations of the Rand Schrader HIV Clinic. The AIDS Clinic features our faculty as primary care providers and supervisors of physician assistants, and as attending physicians for interns, residents and fellows. Currently, there are 2,800-3,100 HIV seropositive patients who receive their primary care in the Clinic. Finally, we also operate an outpatient Infectious Diseases Clinic weekly, which is staffed by our faculty, fellows and residents. The Infectious Diseases Clinic records approximately 800 visits annually.

USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and USC University Hospital (UH): Because of the complexity of cases seen at these two hospitals, Drs. Geiseler, Anglim, Cadden, and Holtom frequently follow sizable case loads at the same time, including consultative inpatient (both teaching and private services) and outpatient services, which include a new home intravenous antibiotic program. Each month one of the ID fellows works with one of the attendings on the USC UH Teaching Service. There are approximately 600-800 new patient consultations per year at those institutions. Dr. Peter Sim, a former graduate of the USC ID Training Program and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, attends at Norris and USC University hospitals and provides weekend coverage with the ID fellows at these facilities.

Healthcare Consultation Center II (HCC II): Drs. Cadden, Geiseler, and Holtom have regularly scheduled weekly clinic sessions for infectious diseases patients at HCC II. These clinics generate more than 300 visits per year. Dr. Holtom also continues to work in the Orthopedic Clinic with Dr. Patzakis and other orthopedic surgeons, seeing patients with chronic osteomyelitis and prosthetic joint infections in consultation or after discharge from USC UH. During FY07, Dr. Sattler and members of the Division began planning for a daily Travel Medicine Clinic for outgoing persons in need of prophylaxis and immunizations and for returning travelers with new signs and symptoms.

Service and Administration
The Division of Infectious Diseases staffs the HIV (Rand Schrader, 5P21) Clinic at LAC+USC Medical Center. The Clinic is open for morning and afternoon sessions Monday through Friday, as well as a Tuesday evening session, where approximately 40,000-50,000 patient visits occur each year. Dr. Cadden serves as Medical Director of the Clinic. Members of the Division also supervise fellows in their weekly HIV continuity and research clinics, mentor medical residents and physician assistant students rotating through the Clinic, and attend a weekly Infectious Diseases Clinic held in 5P21, which is coordinated by Dr. Larsen for patients with and without HIV. Dr. Larsen also serves as Vice Chair of the USC Institutional Review Board and as the Research Subject Advocate for the USC GCRC.

Dr. Fred Sattler, Chief of Infectious Diseases, completed his service as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs for the Keck School of Medicine on December 31, 2007, but continues as Associate Program Director for the USC General Clinical Research Center in LAC+USC Medical Center. Dr. Sattler was appointed by the Vice Provost for Research to serve as Director of the Center for Human Studies in the new Clinical and Translational Science Institute.