Infectious Diseases
Due to COVID-19, if you or your child are experiencing any symptoms, please call our office before coming to your scheduled appointment.
Our Division sees patients at the pediatric outpatient center in Conventus located in Buffalo and provides consultations to inpatients at Oishei Children’s Hospital. All specialists are available to help manage the complete spectrum of infectious diseases common to children. We teach graduate and medical students and perform 300 to 400 inpatient and outpatient consultations annually.
Subspecialty Services
- Acute and chronic infectious diseases
- Antibiotic therapy
- Bacterial and viral immunology
- Bile acid metabolism
- Diseases acquired from international travel (i.e. malaria)
- Ear infections
- Enterotoxigenic E. coli bacterial infections
- Fungal & parasitic infections
- Hepatitis
- HIV
- Kawasaki disease
- Lyme disease & other tick-borne infections
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- Periodic fever syndromes
- Prolonged fevers
- Respiratory infections
- Staphylococcal infections
- Streptococcal infections
Our Division also works with Home Care Services to manage patients on home antibiotic therapy.
Research
Our division is involved in the clinical investigation of infectious diseases and in basic science research in bacterial and viral immunology.
Current projects focus on immune responses to HIV, COVID-19, bile acid metabolism, extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing gram-negative organisms and bacteriophages.
We work closely with the bacteriology, virology and molecular diagnostics laboratories on the development and application of new diagnostic tests.
Division Manager
Kristy Wanat
Clinical Secretary
Christine Hamilton
Infection Control Nurses
Tracy Meyer, RN
Christina Ostwald, MS, RN, CIC
Outpatient Location:
Conventus
1001 Main Street
4th Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
Contact Us:
Office: 716.323.0150
Fax: 716.323.0296