Infectious Diseases & International Health

Chief: William A. Petri, Jr., MD, PhD

• Division Leadership

UVA’s Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, headed by William A. Petri Jr., has a long tradition of excellence in research, patient care and education. Historically it has been an area of special strength in the School of Medicine. Today, division faculty are extending that tradition of excellence into new frontiers of research and innovative models of patient care, while training a new generation of physician-scientists to meet the challenges of infectious diseases in an increasingly “flat” global community.

The Carter- Harrison Medical Research Building, the division’s home since its completion in 2009, provides state-of-the art facilities, with more than 23,000 square feet of lab and support space, and a more than 4,000-square-foot BSL-3 biocontainment lab suite. The division is well-resourced and well-positioned to continue its leadership role in the School of Medicine and at UVA in international health, and to play an increasingly prominent role on the national and international stage.

During 2013 and 2014, Infectious Diseases (“ID”) faculty received a number of teaching and research awards, and published more than 50 papers. Faculty research is supported by external grants which, in FY2014, totaled more than $16 million. This comprises more than 40% of all extramural research funding in the Department of Medicine. Infectious diseases and international health are among ten “research themes” in the School of Medicine’s ten-year strategic plan, one of four central themes in the Department of Medicine’s strategic plan, and an area of expansion within the departments of microbiology, pathology and cell biology.