Infectious Diseases
Leaders in diagnosing, treating and preventing infectious diseases
Infectious Diseases
The Infectious Diseases specialists at Nationwide Children’s Hospital care for children admitted to the Infectious Diseases unit and provide consultations for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases for hospitalized children and children referred by hospital and community physicians.
In addition, our Infectious Diseases Host Defense Program offers comprehensive specialty care of children with a compromised immune system, including children with cancer and bone marrow and solid organ transplantation recipients.
Infectious diseases specialists also provide outpatient consultation upon referral to our Infectious Diseases Clinics. Patients can be referred to our clinics, which are listed below.
Subspecialty Clinics
Infectious Diseases subspecialty clinics include:
- Infectious Diseases Clinic offers outpatient consultation for children and adolescents with suspected or confirmed infectious diseases conditions.
- Family AIDS Clinic and Educational Services (FACES) provides medical, psychosocial, and case management services to HIV-infected infants, children, adolescents, and adults.
- Hep C Clinic offers diagnostic services, evaluation, and management for children with exposure to or infection with the hepatitis C virus.
- Host Defense Clinic for pediatric transplant candidates or recipients and for immunocompromised children experiencing an infectious disease.
- Kawasaki Disease Clinic offers combined cardiology and infectious diseases followup for children who have been treated for this disorder.
- Neo-ID Clinic offers care for those children experiencing congenital or perinatally acquired infections due to such organisms as CMV, herpes simplex virus and syphilis.
- TB Clinic offers care for those children with latent and active tuberculosis.
Infectious Diseases Clinic Locations
Infectious Diseases Clinic
Outpatient Care, 3rd Floor, Suite 3C
555 S. 18th Street
Columbus, OH 43205
FACES/HIV Clinic
Livingston Ambulatory Center
380 Butterfly Gardens Drive
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 722-6060
FAX (614) 722-6770
Hep C Clinic
Livingston Ambulatory Center
380 Butterfly Gardens Drive
Columbus, OH 43215
Host Defense Clinic
Outpatient Care, 3rd Floor, Suite 3C
555 S. 18th Street
Columbus, OH 43205
Kawasaki Disease Clinic
The Heart Center - Nationwide Children's Hospital
700 Children's Drive
Columbus, OH 43205
(614) 722-2530
Neo-ID Clinic
Outpatient Care, 3rd Floor, Suite 3C
555 S. 18th Street
Columbus, OH 43205
Tuberculosis Clinic
Outpatient Care, 3rd Floor, Suite 3C
555 S. 18th Street
Columbus, OH 43205
Infectious Diseases Education
Resources For Providers
To make a referral, please request an appointment online or fax information to (614) 722-4458.
Referral Requirements:
- Written reason for referral
- Records of office visits
- Reports of other consultants
- Lab and imaging study results pertinent to the referral
- Immunization record
Infectious Diseases Research
Meet Our Team
Meet our Infectious Diseases leadership.
Octavio Ramilo
Octavio Ramilo, MD, is the Henry G. Cramblett Chair in Infectious Diseases and Professor of Pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and Division Chief of Infectious Diseases at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
William J. Barson
William J. Barson, MD, is Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at Nationwide Children's Hospital. He is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Patient Education Resources for Families
