Our division of Infectious Disease plays a vital role in the Department of Medicine at LSU Health Shreveport and in our community. Our goal is to attract students to the medical field of treatment and prevention of infectious disease, to improve treatment in our local community and surrounding area through an increase in well-trained staff and physicians, and to provide enhanced care with improved facilities.
We play a proactive role in our region of Northwest Louisiana through interface with community and emergency preparedness officials for necessary support and planning for infectious disease awareness and prevention. Our faculty and fellows service three area clinics treating the following:
We also work with our medical facilities and hospital partners to construct an institution of care by providing them with input on infection control and appropriate use of anti-microbial agents to reduce infectious disease overall.
We offer a Two-year ACGME accredited fellowship program in Infection Disease with Three total fellows. All Infectious Disease Faculty physicians are board certified and active in teaching. Fellows see inpatients at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport and Overton Brooks VA Medical Center, and outpatients at the three clinics below.
Learn more about our ID Fellowship Program.
10.2 million people visited physician offices
with infectious and parasitic diseases as the primary diagnosis in 2019.
(Report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.)
Our Hepatitis C Clinic is located in the Ambulatory Care Center of Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Academic Medical Center. We have expanded our staff to provide for the increase of patients with infections seeking treatment at our clinic. We currently provide treatment for more than 5,000 patients in North Louisiana. Our faculty is also taking part in a statewide effort to respond to this increase in infections.
Our Viral Disease Clinic is located at 6670 St Vincent Ave, Shreveport, LA 71106. We currently provide treatment to 850 patients with HIV. Through the extensive amount of diseases being treated through this facility, research in a variety of areas is able to be done including Dr. Nambiar's studies on syphilis in pregnancy and pre-exposure therapy for HIV discordant couples.
Our General Infectious Disease Clinic is located in the Ambulatory Care Center Medicine-Specialty Clinic of Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Academic Medical Center. Through this clinic we are growing our research in bone infections, heart infections, fevers, and post-operative infections, among other areas of treatment. Due to the vast number of patients who need treatment throughout our region, our goal is to include Telemedicine in the near future as a regular part of our program.
KTBS3 - "It's important that once patients are on this medication, they can see, their provider, every three months so that we can screen for other sexually transmitted infections and to ensure they remain HIV negative," shares Dr. Paulette Pinargote.
KTBS3 - Dr. Paulette Pinargote, LSUHS infectious disease specialist, says doxy PEP is intended for someone who has already had a sexual encounter and if they are concerned, they may have acquired syphilis, gonorrhea, or chlamydia.
KSLA12 - With the CDC reporting a rise in COVID cases, Dr. Alexandre Malek, LSUHS Director of Infectious Disease Research, talks about the newly approved FDA updated COVID vaccines.
Division of Internal Medicine
Division of Internal Medicine
Division of Infectious Disease
LSU Health Shreveport
1501 Kings Highway
Shreveport, LA 71130-3932
Phone: (318) 675-5900
Program Administrator
Emily Bartlett
Email: emily.bartlett@lsuhs.edu
(318) 675-5967
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