The Pediatric Infectious Disease Service provides consultation for in-patients and out-patients with proven or suspected infections. The division helps manage patients in Oregon and southwest Washington through phone consultation. The division maintains active clinical research protocols for the treatment of resistant bacterial infections and of pediatric HIV and its comlications. Host defense and viral pathogenesis are under laboratory-based study.

The division has a staff of three full-time and two part-time Board Certified Pediatric Infectious Disease physicians and an R.N. clinical research coordinator.

Contact Information
Division of Infectious Disease
Department of Pediatrics
Oregon Health & Science University
707 SW Gaines
Mail Code CDRCP
Portland, OR 97239

503-494-3305
Fax: 503-494-1542

Division Staff

• Deborah Lewinsohn, MD, Assistant Professor, Division Chief
• Colleen Chun, MD, Clinical Professor, Kaiser Permanente
• Steve Kohl, MD, Clinical Professor
• Paul Lewis, MD, Assistant Professor
• Michael Miller, MD, Professor Emeritus

Research Programs

Clinical research protocols for treating resistant bacterial infections
Pediatric HIV and its complications
Study of host defense and viral pathogensis

Web Sites

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Johns Hopkins AIDS Service

Immunization Action Coalition

National Library of Medicine, Pub Med