Infectious Diseases
This Section of Infectious Diseases (ID) provides expertise in a broad range of infectious conditions to the children of southern Alberta and neighbouring Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
The ID Section is comprised of 8 infectious diseases specialists and is supported by a team of allied health professionals including nursing and pharmacy. We are involved in the education of trainees at all levels. This includes a Royal College accredited Pediatric Infectious Diseases residency training program, as well as an additional training program in Antimicrobial Stewardship that is supported by our team.
We provide consultative clinical care for children with suspected and confirmed infectious diseases. This occurs on a busy inpatient service as well as in outpatient clinics. In addition, our members contribute their expertise to AHS and hospital initiatives including: clinical guideline development, surveillance programs, healthcare epidemiology, antimicrobial stewardship and infection risk mitigation related to healthcare construction/renovation projects. Our physicians participate in a number of local, provincial and national committees devoted to the prevention and management of infectious diseases.
List of Ambulatory Clinics
- Ambulatory Parenteral Therapy Clinic
- Combined Infectious Diseases / Cystic Fibrosis Clinic
- General Infectious Diseases Clinic
- HIV clinic (Southern Alberta Clinic)
- Home Parenteral Therapy Clinic
- Transplant Vaccine Clinic
- Tropical Medicine Clinic
- Vaccine Hesitancy Clinic
- Vaccine Adverse Events Clinic
A physician Referral is required for all Clinics. Please contact your physician or family doctor.
Research activities include:
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Care of HIV-infected and affected children
- Congenital infections
- COVID-19 epidemiology & vaccine evaluation
- Immigrant and refugee health
- Infection prevention and control
- Infections in immunocompromised hosts
- Internationally-adopted children
- Invasive pneumococcal infections
- Pulmonary infections in children with cystic fibrosis
- Surveillance of antibiotic resistant organisms
- Surveillance of healthcare associated infections
- Tropical diseases and travel medicine
- Vaccine clinical trials
- Vaccine evaluation
- Vaccine-preventable diseases
Dr. Cora Constantinescu
Dr. Devika Dixit
Dr. Jessica Dunn
Dr. Tajdin Jadavji
Dr. James Kellner
Dr. Carsten Krueger
Dr. Susan Kuhn
Dr. Otto Vanderkooi (Section Chief)
Dr. Joseph Vayalumkal
Alberta Children's Hospital Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Bulletins:
Winter 2020 - Issue 42
December 2019 - Issue 41
Summer 2019 - Issue 40
April/May 2019 - Issue 39
Fall 2018 - Issue 38
Summer 2018 - Issue 37
June 2018 - Issue 36
May 2018 - Issue 35
April 2018 - Issue 34
March 2018 - Issue 33
January 2018 - Issue 32
November 2017 - Issue 31
October 2017 - Issue 30
September 2017 - Issue 29
Summer 2017 - Issue 28
May 2017 - Issue 26
April 2017 - Issue 25
March 2017 - Issue 24
February 2017 - Issue 23
January 2017 - Issue 22