The mission of the Department of Medicine is to create,
promote, and deliver high quality medical education, research and health care.
The vision of Capital Health is healthy people, healthy
communities. To that end its mission is to work with individuals and
communities to improve health. The people of Capital Health provide
care, educate, conduct research, and advocate, and have as their core
values collaboration, accountability, respect, and excellence.
The Division of Infectious Diseases (ID) delivers a
broad variety of services in patient care and education, conducts
research, and participates in local and national committees and
organizations to fulfil the shared missions of the Department of
Medicine and Capital Health.
Patients with severe and/or complex hospital and community acquired
infections, including HIV, are major clinical areas
for this Division. Inpatient consultations are provided at all Queen
Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre (QEII) sites as well as for women
hospitalized at the IWK Health Centre. In addition to general
infectious diseases outpatient clinics, the Division is heavily
involved in the outpatient care of HIV-infected patients and expanding
its involvement in the care of hepatitis B and hepatitis C infected
patients. Interdisciplinary outpatient care is provided in close
collaboration with dedicated clinic nurses, psychologist,
nutritionist, social worker, and pharmacist. The division directs
and hosts a primarily family physician staffed walk-in sexually
transmitted diseases (STD) clinic.
The Division is committed to research with greater
than a quarter of its full-time equivalent faculty members devoted to
research activities. The focus of these activities is in the
epidemiology of infection in the elderly and hospitalized patients,
adult immunization, bacterial pathogenesis, food and waterborne
pathogens, and clinical trials in HIV.
Members are actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate
education to students in both medical and non-medical
faculties and to physicians locally, nationally and internationally
through continuing medical education programs. A rotation on the ID
service is a popular elective with medical students and postgraduate
medical and surgical trainees. The Division has the only Royal College
Infectious Diseases training program in Eastern Canada and offers a
joint Infectious Diseases/Medical Microbiology residency training program
in collaboration with the Department of Pathology.
The Division's faculty has four full time and one
part-time ID specialists (Drs. Davis, Haase, Johnston, McNeil,
Schlech), two joint appointments from the University Department of
Microbiology and Immunology (Drs. Garduño and Thomas), one
cross appointed member from Pharmacy (Dr. Slayter), two cross appointed
members from the Department of Pathology (Drs. Forward and Haldane),
and three cross appointed from the Department of Microbiology and
Immunology (Drs. Davidson, Hatchette and Rohde). Its activities are
supported by two administrative assistants (Patricia Wyman
(team leader), Scott Bosse (who is doing Marsha Bennett's maternity leave)
and Division Manager (Michael Twigg).
Division offices are located in the Dickson Building on the VG
site of the QEII.
Updated: April 2010
