Clinical Training
Fellows receive broad exposure to active inpatient and outpatient consultation services. Our patient population is as diverse as their conditions, and fellows gain experience in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of primary and secondary acute and chronic infectious diseases. Continuity of care is fostered by an active pediatric infectious diseases outpatient clinic with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Fellows also rotate through the Ponce Pediatric/Adolescent Infectious Diseases Clinic, specializing in the management of infants with perinatal HIV exposure and children and adolescents with HIV/AIDS. Additional outpatient clinic opportunities are available at our pediatric immunology clinic and the Emory TravelWell clinic.
The inpatient training experience is primarily based at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston (CHOA), a 255-bed pediatric tertiary care facility. There are additional opportunities to see patients at CHOA at Scottish Rite, a 249-bed pediatric tertiary care facility, CHOA at, an 18-bed pediatric inpatient and outpatient facility located in downtown Atlanta, CHOA @ Hugh Spaulding, the Grady Memorial Hospital Nurseries, which include a level 3 neonatal unit with 42 NICU beds and 27 intermediate care nursery beds, and the nursery at Emory University Hospital Midtown, with 24 beds in a 583-bed metropolitan community hospital.
Description of our clinical rotation can be found in our Fellowship Manual.
Research Training
In addition to clinical training, fellows will pursue mentored clinical, basic science, or translational research. The area(s) of concentration will be selected based on the interest of the fellow who will be responsible for designing, implementing, and completing a hypothesis-driven project or pursue scholarly activity under the guidance of a committee of advisors and mentors. Fellows are encouraged to start planning their research project during their first year, with help from program faculty and the Fellow Research Navigator. Fellows will be encouraged to apply for and secure external funding for their research endeavors and will submit the results of their research for dissemination in an appropriate scholarly venue. Research opportunities are diverse and plentiful and may include collaboration with investigators from other divisions, departments, or schools. The division has active collaborations with investigators in Emory Adult Infectious Diseases Division, the Rollins School of Public Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Carter Center, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Fellows may pursue international activities and may work with members of our Emory Vaccine Center and Vaccine & Treatment Evaluation Unit (VTEU). We additionally have growing opportunities for scholarship in hospital epidemiology, clinical microbiology, and antimicrobial stewardship. Fellows from our program are eligible to apply for a funded NIH-T32 training grant in vaccinology. We also encourage interested fellows to consider applying for a Masters of Science in Clinical Research (MSc) degree during their training through the Laney Graduate School at Emory. All first year pediatric subspecialty fellows attend the Fellows Introduction to Research Training (FIRsT) course in the fall.