The Division of Infectious Diseases' research laboratories occupy 7,000 square feet on the 15th floor of the Health Sciences Center
with additional space at the Northport VA Medical Center. They are well equipped with freezers, incubators, microscopes, centrifuges,
ultracentrifuges, dark room, liquid scintillation and gamma counters and other heavy equipment. At Stony Brook the Division has a P-3
containment room for work with biohazardous agents such as the AIDS virus, and our own autoclave and glassware washing facility. Office
space for faculty, fellows, and secretaries is provided and the facilities and equipment of the Department of Microbiology are available.
Advanced computer equipment is located within the Division for word processing and data management tasks. An additional 600 square feet
of hospital space and a dedicated computer system are in use by Infection Control, a hospital department administered by the Division
and staffed by three full-time Certified Infection Control Practitioners. Electronic books and journals, research databases and web
resources as well as printed journals and books are available in the new Barry S. Coller Learning Center. The Infectious Disease
Institute, a center for infectious diseases research on emerging pathogens in the Center for Molecular Medicine, has just been completed
on Stony Brookâs West Campus.
- An clinical conference and a Core Review (journal club) are held weekly.
- A series of lectures on basic immunology, biostatistics and public health is held yearly.
- A research conference is held monthly at the Center for Infectious Diseases.
- A clinical pathology review session is held weekly, at both the University Hospital and the VA.
- The Long Island Infectious Diseases Society holds a bimonthly clinical conference attended by many of the infectious diseases
practitioners located in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island.
- The Fellow is encouraged to attend the staff meetings of the Infection Control Departments which take place regularly both
at the University Hospital and the VA.
- Attendance at a three-day formal course on sexually transmitted diseases is mandatory.
- Fellows regularly present their research at the annual IDSA meeting.
Many other departments and divisions have conferences and speakers that are relevant to the fellowship educational mission,
notably the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Department of Microbiology.
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