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Infectious Diseases
Lorry Rubin, MD
The fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases is designed to train the fellow in the entire clinical spectrum of infectious diseases, to provide training in clinical microbiology, and to give the opportunity to design and carry out basic and/or clinical investigative projects related to infectious diseases. During the training program, the fellow performs clinical consultations on inpatients and outpatients and participates in infectious diseases conferences and journal clubs and prepares and delivers lectures to the pediatric staff house. The outpatient experience includes participation in the Pediatric Travel and Immunization Service and the Pediatric Lyme Disease Clinic. Additionally, fellows spend at least one month in the clinical microbiology laboratory learning the principles and techniques of diagnostic bacteriology, virology and serology. Fellows spend one month with the Division of Infectious Diseases of the Department of Internal Medicine and one month with the Pediatric Immunology Division at the Children's Hospital where they gain experience with immune deficiency disorders and the ambulatory management of HIV-infected children. Each fellow is enrolled in a course on research techniques and introduction to biostatistics. First year fellows spend at least six months on the clinical consultative services. The second and third years of fellowship are largely devoted to clinical and laboratory research. Three years of fellowship are required for eligibility for certification by the American Board of Pediatrics. The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Division consists of three full-time faculty members. Lorry Rubin, MD is Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Schneider Children's Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His main research interest is in the areas of bacterial pathogenicity including the pathogens Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae, and the pathogenesis, prevention and treatment of the catheter-associated bacteremia. Sunil Sood, MD is the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH). His main research interests are in the areas of diagnosis, prevention, and pathogenesis of Lyme disease and bacterial vaccines. Sujatha Rajan MD is the third full-time pediatric infectious disease faculty member. Her research interests are in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infections in stem cell transplant recipients and clinical trials of anti-microbials. Henry Isenberg, PhD, emeritus Chief of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, is the Chair of the Infection Control Committee at Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJMC) and has a wide variety of research interests in bacteriology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Ernestine Vellozzi, PhD is Chief of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at LIJMC and Christine Ginnocchio, PhD, is Chief of Microbiology at the North Shore-LIJ Health System Laboratory. Carol Singer, MD is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at LIJMC and Bruce Farber MD is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at NSUH and Chair of Infection Control. Other full-time infectious diseases faculty members at LIJMC are Miriam Smith, MD, Barbara Edwards, MD, and Joseph Cervia, MD. Vincent Bonagura, MD is the Chief of Immunology in the Children's Hospital; there is close working relationship between the divisions of infectious diseases and immunology. The clinical facilities are the Schneider Children's Hospital of LIJMC in New Hyde Park and Schneider Children's Hospital at NSUH in Manhasset of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. The Schneider Children's Hospital opened in 1983 and is a 150 bed children's hospital which has approximately 5,000 admissions per year. The patient population includes walk-in, primary care patients, but has a major tertiary and quaternary care patient population including a large number of hematology-oncology patients, neonatal and pediatric intensive care patients, and children with congenital heart disease. Programs include stem cell transplant, ECMO, and cystic fibrosis. A pre-requisite for the fellowship program is three years of post-graduate training in pediatrics. For an application, please contact: Lorry Rubin, M.D.
6/3/02
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