Welcome from the Program Directors
Michael Sands, M.D.
Division Chief
Fellows are exposed to inpatient ID consultations and hospital infection control consultations for Shands Jacksonville, along with medical oversight and clinical services for the UF ID outpatient clinics and the Duval County Health Department's Communicable Diseases Clinics.
The diversity of outpatient clinical resources provides our fellows with academic supervision in continuity clinics for HIV/AIDS care, TB diagnosis, sexually transmitted disease diagnosis and treatment, travel medicine, pre- and post-exposure rabies vaccination, as well as general infectious diseases outpatient consultation. Inpatient general infectious disease consultation rotations are spent at Shands Jacksonville. The fellowship includes 2 months of training in transplantation infectious diseases at the Mayo Clinic/Jacksonville and 1 month training in pediatric infectious diseases at Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville. During the first year, the fellow spends 2 months learning clinical microbiology in the laboratories at Shands Jacksonville and Baptist Medical Center. Approximately 20 percent of each year is dedicated to research and productive writing.
Please explore our site further for detailed information on our fellowship, faculty and division. If you have additional questions, please contact us. Thank you for your interest in our program.
Michael Sands, M.D., MPH&TM
Associate Professor and Program Director
Christina L. Bailey, M.D.
Assistant Professor and Associate Program Director