Dr. Jay Sizemore spoke to the Chattanooga Hamilton Place Rotary Club this week. His presentation included information on infectious diseases such as Hepatitis C and HIV and progress that is being made in treating and managing both. He addressed pandemic diseases such as Ebola and Zika, and spoke to the advantages of vaccines for both children and adults. Additionally, he addressed the seriousness of over-prescribing antibiotics and the overuse of antibiotics. He said this can create a bacteria resistant to antibiotics which proves to be extremely serious in treating diseases especially in the young and elderly.
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Sizemore is a native Chattanoogan and Baylor School graduate. He received his BS in psychology from Duke University in Durham, NC, and earned his MD from UT. He completed an internal medicine internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital and completed an Infectious Diseases Fellowship and obtained a masters of science in public health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Currently, he serves as partner in the ID Group and an assistant professor at UTC College of Medicine where he is medical director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention Programs at Erlanger Medical Center. Since 2005, he also has served as the medical director of Chattanooga CARES, the Ryan White funded clinic serving over 600 HIV infected individuals in southeast Tennessee.