Infectious Diseases

MISSION AND OVERVIEW: PATIENT CARE, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

The Infectious Disease (ID) Division is dedicated to the highest standards of patient care in an academic environment of education and discovery through basic and translational research and clinical investigation. The ID faculty have a broad spectrum of clinical and research expertise that provides innovative approaches to patient care in collaboration with other faculty at Loyola and physicians beyond Loyola seeking  consults.  Strong affiliations exist with the Department of Microbiology-Immunology through the Infectious Diseases-Immunology Institute and with the Department of Public Health Sciences to expand ID research and education to broader public health and international programs. These missions are fulfilled through programmatic integration of PharmD and Nurse Practitioner staff in an environment that fosters continuing medical education and training of Infectious Diseases Fellows, the ID experts and faculty of the future.

Clinical expertise of faculty:

  • Primary care for patients with HIV/AIDS and related infections and medical problems
  • Consultative care for patients with community-acquired and hospital-acquired infections and multidrug resistant infections, including those caused by MRSA and gram-negative bacteria
  • Consultative care of patients with infectious diseases associated with stem cell and solid organ transplantation and hematological and other malignancies
  • Consultative and primary care of patients with:
    - Mycobacterial infections refractory to standard therapy (e.g. MAI/MAC, M. abscessus, etc.)
    - C. difficile infections refractory to standard therapy
    - Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in the context of liver transplantation and HIV/AIDS
  • Reduction and elimination of infections associated with hospitalization through surveillance, prevention, education and interventional strategies
  • Increased effectiveness of hospital-based antimicrobial therapy through review and oversight of treatment strategies, education and collaboration, to provide cost-effective treatment and reduce emergence of treatment-induced antibiotic resistance
  • Travel medicine recommendations and consultations

Faculty

Fritzie Albarillo, MD

Assistant Professor
Co-Medical Director, Antibiotic Restriction, Medical Director, OPAT Program
 
Specialties
Aids
Clostridium Difficile Infection
General Infectious Disease
Infections in Transplant Recipients
Osteomyelitis

 

 

 

Locations
Loyola Outpatient Center
Loyola Hospital

James Cook, MD


Clinical Professor of Medicine

Specialties

  • TB
  • nontuberculous mycobacterial infections

Locations
Loyola Outpatient Center

Nina Clark, MD, FIDSA

Professor and Division Director

Specialties

  •     HIV
  •     Infections in transplant recipients



Margaret Fitzpatrick, MD

Assistant Professor

Medical Specialties

HIV
General Infectious Disease
Endocarditis
Osteomyelitis
Surgical Site Infections
Travel-Related Infection
Pulmonary Infections
Infections of Prosthetic Devices

 

Locations

Loyola University Medical Center
Loyola Outpatient Center

 

David W. Hecht, MD, IDSA

Professor

Specialties

  • HIV
  • General Infectious Disease
  • AIDS

Locations
Loyola Outpatient Center

Stuart Johnson, MD, FIDSA, DTM&H

Professor

Specialties

  • Clostridium Difficile Infection
  • General Infectious Disease
  • Infection Complications in Surgery
  • Travel-Related Infection
  • Tuberculosis (TB)

Locations
Loyola Outpatient Center

J. Paul O'Keefe, MD, IDSA

Professor

Specialties

  • AIDS
  • Foot Infections in Diabetics
  • HIV
  • General Infectious Disease
  • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Infection Complications in Surgery
  • Travel-Related Infection
  • Heart Infections
  • Pneumonias
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Foot Infections in Diabetics
  • Joint infections
  • Bone infections
  • Unusual Pneumonias

Locations
Loyola Outpatient Center
Loyola Center for Health at Burr Ridge

Susan Pacheco, MD

Assistant Professor


Locations
Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital
Loyola Hospital

Jorge Parada, MD,MPH, FACP, FIDSA

Professor

Specialties

  • Infection Complications in Surgery
  • Foot Infections in Diabetics
  • Bone infections
  • Pneumonias
  • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • General Infectious Disease
  • Travel-Related Infection
  • Joint infections
  • Clostridium Difficile Infection

Locations
Loyola Hospital
Loyola Outpatient Center

Gail Reid, MD

Assistant Professor

Specialties

  • Infections in transplant recipients
  • Immunocompromised Hosts
  • HIV

Locations
Loyola Outpatient Center
Loyola Hospital

Rabeeya Sabzwari, MD, IDSA

Assistant Professor

Specialties

TB and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections

 

Locations
Loyola Outpatient Center
Loyola Hospital

David Slade, MD, JD

Assistant Professor

Specialties

  • Aids
  • Bone Infections
  • Endocarditis
  • Foot Infections in Diabetics
  • General Infectious Disease
  • HIV
  • Heart Infections
  • Infection Complications in Surgery
  • Joint Infections
  • Osteomyelitis
  • Pneumonias
  • Prosthetic Joint Infections

Locations
Loyola Outpatient Center
Loyola Hospital

Fritzie Albarillo, MD, IDSA

Clinical Assistant Professor

Locations
Loyola Outpatient Center