Welcome to the Infectious Disease Division at the University of Wisconsin

The Infectious Disease Division of the Department of Internal Medicine engages in a broad range of patient care, research, and educational activities. The Division is comprised of 18 full-time faculty and numerous close associations with other clinical and basic science departments.

Patient care and consultation is provided for hospitalized and ambulatory adult patients with every variety of infectious disease. Faculty members are board-certified in infectious disease. Specialized services are offered in a varitety of areas such as transplant infectious diseases, critical care and surgical infectious diseases, HIV, hepatitis C, home infusion therapy, mycology, and travel medicine.

Research programs within the Infectious Disease Division include studies ranging from clinical to basic pathogenesis. Specific faculty areas of research include healthcare epidemiology, nosocomial infections, sepsis, device-related infections, antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial pharmacodynamics and drug development, clinical and basic mycology, hepatitis C, microbial biofilms, transplant infections, and antimicrobial utilization. A strong affiliation with Medical Microbiology and numerous other basic science departments on the UW campus provide limitless opportunities ranging from basic microbial pathogenesis to population health.  Our research programs are primarily supported by NIH, CDC, and numerous research foundation awards, as well as grants from biomedical and pharmaceutical industries.

David R. Andes

Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Medical Microbiology

Infectious Disease Fellowship Director

Division Head, Division of Infectious Disease