The Pediatric Infectious Diseases section at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) includes four board-certified specialists with academic appointments in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Section activities include:

• Inpatient and outpatient consultant services
• Children with HIV/AIDS comprehensive clinical care
• Home IV therapy management
• Clinical Directorship of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at ACH
• Participation in Infection Control, Pharmacy & Therapeutics, and Child and Family Life telephone consultations at ACH
• Basic science, clinical research, clinical trials research, multi-centered national network collaborations, and applied research in the areas of health promotion, prevention and education
• Education activities for second and third year medical students, an elective rotation for senior medical students and residents in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, Family Practice, Pharmacy, and Nursing

Faculty Members:

    J. Gary Wheeler, MD, Interim Section Chief

    Rosalind S. Abernathy, MD

    Nada Harik, MD

    Richard F. Jacobs, MD

    Uma M. Nagarajan, PhD

    Stephanie Howard Stovall, MD

Additional web links:

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute

    http://achri.ach.uams.edu/

Collaborative Antiviral Study Group

    http://www.niaid.nih.gov/daids/PDATguide/casg.htm

Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit

    http://www.ppru.org/

Chlamydia – National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    http://www.cdc.gov/std/Chlamydia/STDFact-Chlamydia.htm

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