The Department of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care for patients with infectious diseases at University Hospital Heidelberg.

With Clinic IV (Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Toxicology) and the Thorax Clinic we offer specialized interdisciplinary care through our consultation service. Our consulting supports other departments in the management of patients with complex infections. We also provide outpatient care for patients dealing with complex infectious, tropical, migratory, or travel-related conditions, and those who require post-inpatient care with parenteral or complex oral anti-infective therapy. Our clinical focus is on diseases such as tuberculosis, non-tuberculous mycobacteria, invasive fungal infections, and echinococcosis.

We are committed to providing high-quality care based on the latest advances in clinical medicine, in close partnership with physicians and researchers from a wide range of disciplines. Our research contributes to the advancement of medical knowledge nationally and globally. We are certified as a Centre for Infectious Diseases by the German Society for Infectiology and we are also part of the hospital’s Center for Rare Diseases.

Additionally, we offer travel medicine consultations to help you prepare before traveling, when you are preparing to work abroad or after you return from abroad.

Our goal is to provide personalized, high-quality care to all of our patients, taking into account their individual needs. We also strive to provide exceptional training for the next generation of physicians and researchers in the fields of infectious diseases and tropical medicine.

Yours sincerely,

Claudia Denkinger and the entire IDTM team

Medical Director

Prof. Dr. med. Claudia Denkinger

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Deputy

Dr. med. PhD Elham Khatamzas

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