Patient Care

The Division of ​Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health has many related clinical fields operating under UC San Diego Health. Check out their many resources and services below:

FOR PATIENTS OR INQUIRIES
Our infectious disease specialists offer expert consultations and treatment for infections or diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites.
Most of our services require a referral from another physician, typically a person's primary care provider.

For Clinic Appointments:
Existing Patients:
Phone: 619-543-6146

New Patients:
Phone: 800-926-8273

For Physician Access:
Phone: 1-888-539-8741 EXT: 19383
Fax: 1-888-539-8781

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General Infectious Diseases

Our infectious diseases specialists offer expert consultations for the diagnosis and management of multiple infectious diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites.
Most of our services require referral from another physician, typically a primary care provider. 
 
The conditions treated in our clinics include:
  • Skin and soft tissue infections
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections
  • Post- surgical infections, including prosthetic joint infections and post-surgical wound infections.
  • Bone and joint infections
  • Intra-abdominal infections
  • Bloodstream infections
  • Cardiac infections, including endocarditis
  • Gastrointestinal infections including Clostridium difficile infections
  • Urinary tract infections, including patients with recurrent infections and those with infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria
  • Sexually-transmitted infections (including herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia)
  • Tuberculosis
  • Travel-related infections such as malaria (seen in our Travel Clinic)
  • Patients with Hepatitis B and C (seen in our Infectious Diseases Hepatology Clinic)
  • Patients receiving outpatient intravenous antibiotic therapy (as part of our OPAT program)
Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy Program
 
Our infectious disease specialists oversee the Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) program at UCSD Medical Center.   The OPAT program is designed to safely monitor patients who are discharged from UCSD medical center on intravenous (IV) antibiotic therapy.   Patients may require intravenous therapy depending on the severity or site of infection, and/or if the infection is caused by a drug-resistant bacteria.
  • Upon discharge from UCSD medical center, OPAT patients are formally enrolled in the OPAT program and are assigned to an infectious diseases physician.
  • Our physicians work with home health agencies, infusion centers, and nursing facilities to obtain weekly monitoring labs on patients, and deal with any adverse events that may occur during therapy.
  • Our OPAT patients see their ID physician in the clinic in follow-up in order to make sure that they are tolerating their intravenous antibiotics and that their infections are improving on therapy.

Hematology-Oncology

The mission of the HOID Program is to provide and expand our expertise in clinical and academic aspects of infectious complications in stem cell transplant and hematology-oncology patients at University of California, San Diego.
 
Our key goals are to:
  • Provide outstanding clinical Infectious Diseases expertise to this vulnerable patient population
  • Provide seamless transitions of care from inpatient to outpatient environments in patients with cancer  and infections
  • Continue to develop a robust infrastructure to facilitate clinical trials and translational studies in this patient population, both to provide patients with cutting-edge care and to expand our overall knowledge of infections in cancer
  • Develop standardized algorithms for prevention and treatment of infections in these patients
 
The HOID program has three full-time specialized physicians and three part-time specialized physicians involved in the inpatient care of Hematology-Oncology Infectious Diseases patients; and two physicians who care for these patients in the outpatient clinic at the Moore’s UCSD Cancer Center.
Preventing and treating patients with infections and cancer is our passion.  If you have been diagnosed with an infection in the setting of Cancer, contact us for an appointment or ask you physician for a referral.

Contact Information:    
 
Moore’s UCSD Cancer Center
3855 Health Sciences Center
La Jolla, CA 92093-0960
(858) 822-7973

Solid Organ Transplant

The Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases service is a sub-specialty service in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
 
We work closely with the solid organ transplant teams (heart/ ventricular assist device, lung, liver, kidney, and pancreas) all the way from the transplant evaluation and listing process, inpatient admission at the time of transplant as well as ongoing care on an as needed basis in the post-transplant setting. Our goal is to prevent infections when possible and effectively treat complicated infections when they do arise. Our team is well trained and provides exceptional and compassionate medical care. 

Travel Clinic

The UCSD Travel Clinic provides comprehensive advice related to all medical aspects of travel, before, during and after. State of the art information and advice include illness prevention (food and water precautions, mosquito precautions, precautions for altitude sickness), vaccinations, and drug prophylaxis. Available vaccinations include yellow fever (legally required for entry into many countries), Japanese encephalitis, typhoid, hepatitis A, rabies, meningococcal meningitis, tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis and others. We also provide drug prophylaxis to prevent malaria and diarrheal diseases.
 
Many immunizations require multiple injections and take weeks to reach full effectiveness, so please make your appointment as soon after you make your travel plans.
 
The UCSD Travel Clinic is a Member of the Global TravEpiNet Program. Global TravEpiNet is a national network of travel clinics across the United States, supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is aimed at advancing the health of individuals who travel internationally.

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