UTHealth Houston Infectious Diseases

We’re excited to welcome our Infectious Diseases Fellowship Class of 2026 to UTHealth Houston! 🎉 This exceptional group brings compassion, curiosity, and dedication to patient care. Welcome to the UTHealth family! 🧡🩺 #Match2026 #UTHealthHouston #InfectiousDiseases

Congratulations to our Dimitrios Kontoyiannis for receiving today the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Baylor College of Medicine @bcmhouston @BCMDeptMedicine @BCMIDFellowship @MDAndersonNews

Fantastic session on Viral Hepatitis with Dr. @HarrysTorres01 and our outstanding ID family! #IDweek @IDWeekmtg

Great session today on What is New on Viral #Hepatitis from A to to E #IDWeek2025 #HepatitisElimination #HepB, #HepC @IDSAInfo, @IDWeekmtg

Our outstanding Infectious Diseases Team at @MDAndersonNews #IDtwitter

Assisting many patients @MDAndersonNews this weekend on call, an international group of infectious disease providers from the #USA, #PuertoRico, #Iran, #Japan, #Azerbaijan, and #Venezuela is ready to help those in need. @UT_infectious @BCMIDFellowship

Congratulations to the awesome group of #InfectiousDiseases fellows @UT_infectious and @BCMIDFellowship on their graduation. The finish line is now yours! @MDAndersonNews @bcmhouston and @UTHealthHouston building provider capacity to treat infections worldwide @ESCMID @IDSAInfo

Assisting numerous patients this weekend on call @MDAndersonNews while observing the prominent role of women in #medicine and infectious diseases @UT_infectious @BCMIDFellowship @AAPAorg @IDSAInfo @ESCMID

Elevator pitch for shorter course as outlined by the amazing @idpharmd at the @WinterCourseID

We are so excited to announce our 2025 ID fellows! We can't wait to welcome you all to Houston and @TXMedCenter. #Match2025 #IDdocs

A big thank you to one of our new Surgical ID faculty Dr. Chen for an amazing talk on treating osteomyelitis at our core conference! A great summary of a complex and difficult-to-treat infection. #meded #MedTwitter #infectiousdisease

Exciting opportunity! UTHealth Houston is offering a one-year fellowship in solid organ Transplant Infectious Diseases. Train in caring for kidney, liver, lung, and heart transplant patients. May meet at ID week, please contact @RHasbun2

【Graduation Party 2024】 Thank you very much to @MDAndersonNews @UT_Infectious for amazing training opportunity! I appreciate all faculty and fellows! I miss you all! @POkhuysen @ChemalyRoy @HarrysTorres01 @eduardo_yepezg @10e_John @DrLuisO @benjbarnett64 @DBhamidipatee

Congrats to all of our fellows who presented their posters at ID week this year!

A big thank you to the @MDAndersonNews ID department @POkhuysen and @eduardo_yepezg for a great fellows dinner last night at #IDWeek2023 @BCMIDFellowship @PrathitKulkarni @ut_infectious

Thank you @A_Spallonii for hosting a great event sponsored by the Infectious Diseases Engagement and Wellness Committee @MDAndersonNews. She is so talented and creative organizing a classy evening for all. @BCMIDFellowship @UT_infectious

Fun talk today by Dr. Ostrosky @DrLuisO about fungal outbreaks and to answer the important question: can The Last of Us really happen?!

Though rare, neurosyphilis can present with seizures. These patients should be screened for HIV as early tx with ART reduces complications. Check out our most recent article on the topic👇🏼 acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ai… @AnnalsofIMCC @UTHimres @ut_infectious @UTHealth_Neuro @shivika_ch

A couple of our fellows attending the TB intensive conference @HeartlandNTBC Great to hear lectures from former UT Fellows TB expert Dr. Lisa Armitige and Dr. Nigo

[micro lab rounds] Today we got to learn a little bit about Eikenella corrodens! ✍🏼common organism of human oral flora ✍🏼HACEK organism and can be highly associated with endocarditis ✍🏼smells like bleach when plated in the lab ✍🏼colonies pit down into the agar