Welcome to the UAB Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program

Mission Statement:

The program’s mission is to prepare fellows for independent practice as clinicians, clinician-educators, and physician-scientists. Our learning environment, which includes nationally recognized leaders and experts in infectious diseases, a growing faculty, and excellent facilities, affords opportunities for professional exploration and development. Our division strives to promote diversity among our providers to facilitate a culture that is inclusive for our division, staff and the patient populations we serve.   

Program Aims:

We aim to develop clinically astute and curious infectious diseases experts capable of practicing in any desired practice type. Fellows in our training program have the opportunity to see and learn the breadth of common and rare infectious diseases in a variety of inpatient and ambulatory settings.

The division seeks to remain up-to-date on literature through a variety of educational conferences, with the goal of fellow development and education at the core of what we do. The faculty provide multiple layers of mentorship to ensure our fellows achieve their varied career goals.

Faculty provide research expertise and mentorship across the spectrum of basic, translational, and clinical research. As the division with the most research revenue/income/dollars across the department of medicine, we are well positioned to help fellows produce scholarly work in their area of interest as well as prepare them for a future as a grant-funded physician scientist if so desired.

Program Leadership:

Todd McCarty, MD

Program Director
tmccarty@uabmc.edu

Mukesh Patel, MD

Associate Program Director
mrpatel@uabmc.edu

Internal Research Funding Opportunties

Faculty Testimonial:

Nathan Erdmann, MD, PhD

An Infectious Diseases Fellowship at UAB offers a unique breadth of experiences. We function as a referral center for the much of the state and the institution houses a large HIV clinic and transplant center leading to opportunities to see a wide variety of cases and advanced pathology. Our division has long excelled in education, actively participating house staff education and consistently recognized by residents for their experiences. This is in no small part because of the engagement of our fellows in education. The clinical opportunities are complemented by a faculty nationally recognized for their work in areas including HIV, STIs, immunology and mycology. You will also find an open door policy across the Division and Institution as faculty consistently make time for trainees and are open to collaborative initiatives. Whatever your interests, there are ample opportunities both clinically and in research to get the necessary training necessary for the next steps in your career.

Jodie Dionne-Odom, MD, MSPH

UAB is an incredibly supportive place to train in Infectious Diseases. All of our new trainees are paired with an experienced faculty research mentor based on their area of interest to design and conduct a scholarly project during fellowship. These projects allow fellows to gain expertise in a specific niche and work with a team to generate and publish new discoveries. Given the rich diversity of our field and patient populations along with the myriad interests of a large and highly productive division, opportunities abound to delve into basic science, clinical outcomes, or global health research.