Infectious Diseases
Members of the UBC Division of Infectious Diseases provide consultative services to patients throughout British Columbia and the Yukon territory and treat a range of infections. Division members have clinical expertise in multiple areas including HIV, urban health and infectious complications of injection drug use, Clostridium difficile infection, transplant infectious diseases, viral hepatitis, infections in pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, complex bone and joint infections, tuberculosis, antimicrobial stewardship, and tropical medicine and travelers’ health.
UBC Infectious Diseases Division members provide hospital and community-based care throughout the province including Prince George, Kelowna, Kamloops, Abbottsford, New Westminster, Surrey, Richmond, Burnaby, Victoria, Nanaimo, North Vancouver, and in Vancouver at St. Paul’s hospital, Vancouver General Hospital, UBC Hospital, and GF Strong Hospital.
Transplant Infectious Diseases
The Transplant Infectious Diseases Program at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), and the University of British Columbia (UBC) is a 1-year training program focusing on the clinical care of individuals with infectious complications of solid organ transplant, acute leukemia and hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) as well as relevant clinical research.
VGH is a high-volume center for both solid organ transplant and HSCT, located in Vancouver, Canada, performing over 500 solid organ transplants and over 200 HSCT annually. The Transplant Infectious Diseases service at VGH constitutes two services, one inpatient and one outpatient, providing care for people who have undergone or are being evaluated for solid organ transplantation, people with acute leukemia and people who have undergone HSCT. The service also provides support for BC Transplant for evaluation of potential organ donors.
The program consists of four core Transplant ID faculty and partners with colleagues in Medical Microbiology, Transplant Medicine and Surgery, Hematology-Oncology, and the HLA lab to provide a comprehensive training experience. The program curriculum is modelled off of the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice Educational Initiatives Working Group recommendations for training
The Transplant Infectious Diseases service at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) was started in 2016 by Dr. Alissa Wright and provides both inpatient and outpatient consultative services for solid organ transplant and leukemia and bone marrow transplant services at VGH. The service also provides outpatient consultation for solid organ transplant recipients at St. Paul’s Hospital. Solid organ transplant at our centers include lung, heart, renal, liver and pancreas transplants with 480 solid organ transplants performed in 2019.
Currently there are three consulting physicians on the transplant ID service: Drs. Alissa Wright, Allison Mah and Sara Belga. In addition to direct patient care, the service is involved administratively with BC Transplant, enrolls patients in clinical trials, and leads quality improvement projects focusing on improving the care of the patients we see every day.
Tropical Medicine Diseases
The Tropical Medicine Clinic is dedicated to the diagnosis and management of illness in returned travellers, immigrants and refugees as well as parasitic infections in those who have not travelled.
The clinic is supported by the Parasitology Laboratory and the Zoonotic and Emerging Pathogens Program at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC).
For consultation, please fax a physician referral note to: Fax: 604.875.4013
UBC Tropical Medicine Webpage:
Location Address:
Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)
Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre
3rd Floor, Desk 5
2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9