Infectious Diseases Fellowship
Geisinger’s Infectious Diseases Fellowship program prepares you to solve medical mysteries for your colleagues, care for individual patients and have an impact on global health.
Infectious diseases
The demand for infectious disease specialists — and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on global health — has never been greater.
Our Infectious Diseases Fellowship offers a dynamic, comprehensive training experience within a university-affiliated, integrated health system known for innovation and excellence in patient care and research.
Program highlights:
- 5:1 faculty-to-fellow ratio
- Nationally renowned microbiology lab
- 100% infectious disease board pass rate
- Dedicated HIV/AIDS clinic with Ryan White Program
- Primary training site: Geisinger Medical Center, a 600+ bed teaching hospital and Level I trauma center, serves as the central hub of a broad network of hospitals and clinics across northeastern and central Pennsylvania.
- Diverse clinical settings: Fellows gain hands-on experience in rural and urban environments, from community hospitals to a state-of-the-art tertiary referral center.
Unique training opportunities:
- Advanced Microbiology Laboratory: Work alongside nationally recognized educators in a cutting-edge lab equipped with the latest microbiologic, molecular and serologic technologies.
- CDC-designated Biocontainment Unit: Participate in training and care for patients with highly infectious diseases such as Ebola, smallpox, SARS and other viral hemorrhagic fevers.
- Telemedicine services: Provide remote infectious disease consultations to hospitals without on-site specialists, expanding access to expert care.
- Clinical informatics & AI integration: Engage with real-world clinical data and explore the intersection of infectious disease and emerging technologies.
- Transplant infectious disease: Manage complex infections in patients undergoing solid organ and stem cell transplants, including pre- and post-transplant care.
- Infection prevention & antimicrobial stewardship: Collaborate with dedicated teams to reduce hospital-acquired infections and promote responsible antimicrobial use.
- Community STI Clinic partnership: Train in a federally funded clinic serving LGBTQI populations, focusing on STIs, hepatitis C and primary care needs.
- Critical care infectious disease: Treat critically ill patients with complex infections, including device-associated infections (e.g., LVAD, etc.), ECMO and apheresis cases.
- Dedicated HIV/AIDS Clinic: Provide comprehensive outpatient care for patients with HIV/AIDS, including management of opportunistic infections and medication-related complications, in partnership with the Ryan White Program.
- Research opportunities: Fellows receive a minimum of 3 months of protected research time over 2 years, supported by a dedicated research department, potential internal funding, IRB guidance and mentorship across disciplines.
Message from the program director
Educating the future generation of infectious diseases specialists and investigators.
Infectious diseases specialists often help solve diagnostic dilemmas that are challenging for other clinicians, which makes it a perfect field for those who are curious and enjoy taking on challenges.
Our interests and passions encompass research, individual patient care, hospital epidemiology and public and global health. Despite this variety of opportunities, the overall shortage and uneven distribution of infectious diseases specialists is becoming more severe — while the demand is higher than ever. Not only do we face new infections, but infections that we once deemed controlled are re-emerging.
To mitigate these issues, the Geisinger Infectious Diseases Fellowship program will prepare you to be an effective consultant and outstanding, compassionate clinician with advanced clinical skills and scientific knowledge. You’ll also have the chance to have a positive impact on community health and the hospital environment.
CARE is at the center of the Geisinger Infectious Diseases Fellowship program:
- Community – To enhance the quality of life by bringing world-class patient care and tailored education to surrounding communities
- Altruism – To cultivate a sense of commitment to serving humanity compassionately.
- Research – To promote vigorous scholarship, striving for innovation for better patient care and public health
- Education – To prepare fellows, residents and medical students to advance their clinical skills and scientific knowledge and become the best clinicians and leaders
Our Infectious Diseases Fellowship program is innovative, dynamic, comprehensive and part of an exciting learning environment.
Are you ready to be part of our team?
Taesung Kwon, MD, FIDSA
Program Director
Program overview
The Geisinger Infectious Diseases Fellowship is a 2-year, structured training program designed to provide fellows with a comprehensive, supervised educational experience. Our goal is to develop specialists with deep expertise in the principles and practice of infectious diseases, grounded in clinical excellence, professionalism and leadership.
The fellowship is organized into 4-week blocks, offering a diverse range of clinical and academic experiences. Fellows engage in direct patient care, formal didactics and research, and participate in hospital epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship initiatives. Each component is designed to foster growth in the 6 core ACGME competencies.
Clinical rotations and experiences include:
- Inpatient infectious diseases consultation
- Inpatient telemedicine consultation
- Outpatient clinics (General ID, HIV/AIDS, Travel Medicine)
- Federally funded STI Clinic
- Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
- Infection prevention and hospital epidemiology
- Antimicrobial stewardship and outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT)
- Research and scholarly activity
- Solid Organ and Bone Marrow Transplant Clinic
- Pediatric infectious diseases
Educational conferences and teaching opportunities
Fellows participate in a robust academic curriculum, including:
- Introductory and core curriculum lectures
- Clinical case conferences
- Journal clubs
- Research conferences
- Microbiology culture and testing conferences
- Infectious diseases board review sessions
Fellows also contribute to the education of internal medicine residents, subspecialty trainees and medical students through:
- Subspecialty noon conferences
- Medicine grand rounds
- Internal medicine morbidity and mortality conferences
- ID-nephrology combined transplant case conferences
About Geisinger
Geisinger serves more than 1 million people in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. We’ve been nationally recognized for innovative practices in quality, delivery models such as ProvenCare® and the use of an award-winning electronic medical record, Epic®. Our physician-led system has about 24,000 employees, including nearly 1,700 physicians, 10 hospital campuses, two research centers and a health plan with more than half a million members, all of which boost our hometown economies by $7.1 billion annually.
Location
Danville, Pa., is a unique and wonderful place to train. Opportunities for outdoor recreation are endless, the cost of living is low and traffic is almost nonexistent. In addition, we are close enough to Philadelphia, New York City and Washington, D.C., to make weekend getaways easy.
