The Division is comprised of two sections led by co-directors who work closely together to maintain a cohesive, fully-integrated program.

Dr. William Powderly heads the clinical section and the basic research faculty that manages patient care and the teaching responsibilities of the Division, and provides a full complement of clinical research (go to clinical research).

Dr. Daniel Goldberg and his faculty participate in teaching and patient care with a principal focus on laboratory-based research (go to Research description). This structure ensures that the clinical, teaching and research goals of the Division receive equally strong commitment and support, and provide excellent opportunities for training ranging from clinical practice to clinical, translational, and laboratory based research.

The program provides training to M.D., Ph.D., and M.D./Ph.D. postdoctoral fellows, and to Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D. students, in disciplines related to pathogenesis and host defense in infectious diseases. The laboratories of the program preceptors use tools of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, genomics, immunology, and cell biology. The clinical research component includes epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical trials, health services research, outcomes research, health economics, health behavior research and informatics tools and methods to train patient-oriented and translational researchers. The research preceptors have been carefully chosen for the training program to ensure that the program as a whole can provide in depth training in all the scientific disciplines required for cutting edge investigation in infectious diseases.

Dr. William Powderly

Dr. Daniel Goldberg

The clinical and research programs of the Division are closely allied with the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Division at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and two of the basic science departments within the School of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Pathology. These departments share joint clinical and research conferences and all offer elective clinical and research rotations. Several members of each faculty have joint appointments in more than one department, and several of our fellows have been trained in both pediatric and adult infectious diseases. Collaboration with different divisions and departments is encouraged and there are many opportunities for mentored clinical and laboratory-based research throughout Washington University. Our philosophy has always been to provide a nurturing, dynamic environment that provides the best possible training for our fellows to achieve their goals.