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Infectious Diseases
Clinical Services
Infectious Diseases Outpatient Clinic: This clinic provides diagnosis of infectious disease-related issues that are beyond the scope of the child's primary care provider. Clinic is held at The Children's Hospital on Tuesdays from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., with additional clinic time available for follow-up appointments on Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
CHIP Program Outpatient Clinic: This is the regional center for the advanced care of children with HIV in the Rocky Mountain Region and the site for the Denver Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, funded by the National Institutes of Health. The clinic has a complete staff of doctors, nurses, social workers and peer counselors and is held every Tuesday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at The Children's Hospital. Families are included in the care and management of the children.
Infectious Diseases Consultation Team: Attendings and fellows are on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Inpatient rounds are conducted with a faculty member and fellow seven days a week. In addition, an infectious diseases fellow is available for telephone consultations to physicians in the Rocky Mountain Region and receives approximately one hundred calls a week. The Team also supports the microbiology and virology laboratories and four transplant teams and hosts a weekly case management conference.
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