The Division of Infectious Disease includes 41 faculty members, including 20 Professors, 6 Associate Professors, 9 Assistant professors and 6 Acting Assistant Professors. The Division is committed to conducting cutting-edge research on infectious diseases relevant to children, delivering the highest quality of clinical care in the area of infectious diseases, and providing world-class education to trainees in pediatric infectious diseases.
The ID division provides an inpatient consultation service and ambulatory clinics. The clinical team includes 18 faculty members and three advanced practice providers.
We have special clinical programs in pediatric HIV, transplant infectious diseases, multidrug resistant organisms, and complex infections in patients with CF. The ID division also supports clinicians in the WWAMI area who have ID-related questions through rapid access to telephone consultations and e-consults.
The Pediatric HIV program at Seattle Children's Hospital cares for HIV-infected children and adolescents from all over the state of Washington as well as from eastern Idaho. We also provide consultation to providers in Alaska caring for HIV-infected children. We collaborate with the Maternal Infant Care Center at UWMC in caring for HIV-exposed but uninfected infants.
Our division works on oncology and transplant-related infection prevention and treatment in collaboration with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and pediatric transplant services at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Joint efforts in establishing guidelines, protocols, and individualized antibiotic plans are developed and reviewed with multiple services and divisions, including Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Immunology, Solid Organ Transplant services (Cardiology, Nephrology, Liver, and Surgery services), and Pharmacy, as well as Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Control. The Pediatric Transplant and Immunocompromised host ID team collaborates with teams across the hospital to provide clinical support for inpatients and outpatients as well as education to other ID providers and via a new Transplant ID fellowship program.
Infectious Diseases faculty provide medical direction to the hospital’s Infection Prevention, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Clinical Effectiveness programs.
The Infectious Diseases Division currently has over 50 active grants. Our faculty are affiliated with the Center for Global Infectious Disease Research Center for Global Infectious Disease Research and the Center for Clinical and Translational Research. Our Investigators have made significant contributions to understanding viral and bacterial pathogenesis and defining the epidemiology and clinical impact of viral and bacterial pathogens in children and adults.
View our faculty profiles to learn more about our research.
Fellowship Program
First formed in 1979, the UW Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship program has had a consistent record of success in training leaders focused on basic or translational research pertaining to infectious diseases that affect children and has graduated a number of fellows who subsequently took on academic leadership positions at their institution such as Division Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases or Department Chair of Pediatrics. Approximately 85-90% of our graduates have remained in academic medicine or worked with governmental institutions including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the National Institutes of Health.
Our three-year program typically trains two fellows per year in clinical pediatric infectious diseases and basic or translational research, with the goal of helping fellows launch academic research careers as skilled investigators and clinical subspecialists. Our fellows can select research mentorship from among the many outstanding researchers across the University of Washington, including in the Departments of Internal Medicine, Global Health, or Immunology.
Our institutions have large patient bases, providing a rich clinical exposure over the six-twelve months of intensive clinical training. Subsequent years are devoted primarily to investigation, with clinics at sufficient frequency to develop a longitudinal perspective on patient management and to maintain clinical skills.
For more information, visit the Pediatrics Infectious Disease Fellowship page.
Danielle Zerr, MD
Division Chief of Pediatric Infectious Disease Professor Affiliate Investigator, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Medical Director of Infection Prevention, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle Children's Research Institute
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Seattle, WA 98101
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