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Meet Our Team
Lavoie / Adler / Childress / Friedel / Koch / Marshall / McVoy

Suzanne R. Lavoie, MD
Professor and Chair
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Email: slavoie@mcvh-vcu.edu
Patient Care Emphasis
General Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Pediatric HIV Infections, International Adoption
Bio
Dr. Lavoie received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts and completed her residency in a Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics training program at VCU Medical Center. She went on to complete a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatric subspecialty training program in Infectious Diseases, also at VCUMC. After completion of her fellowship, Dr. Lavoie joined the faculty of both the Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at VCU in 1993. She founded the Pediatric AIDS Program in 1994 and later became Director of the HIV Family Clinic, the only source for Pediatric HIV care in Central Virginia. She has been the Program Director for the Pediatric Residency Training Program since 1999 and is currently the Chair of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. In 2007, she founded the International Adoption Clinic.
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Stuart P. Adler, MD
Professor
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Email: sadler@vcu.edu
Bio
Dr. Adler received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, and stayed to complete his residency and subspecialty training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. He joined the Department of Pediatrics in 1979 as the first subspecialist in Pediatric Infectious Diseases VCU Medical Center. He chaired the Division until 2006.
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C. Gregory Childress, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Email: cchildrens@mcvh-vcu.edu
Patient Care Emphasis
General Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Pediatric HIV, Tropical and Travel medicine
Bio
Dr. Childress received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and completed his residency training in Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at VCU Medical Center. He stayed to complete combined subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the VCUMC and joined the faculty here in 2003. Upon appointment at VCU, Dr. Childress became Director of the Travel Clinic and Medical Director of the Arthur Ashe HIV Program, as well as Associate Director of Clinical Services at the VCU HIV-AIDS Center. After serving as Associate Program Director for three years, he became Program Director of the Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Training Program in 2006.
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David J. Friedel, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of General Pediatrics
Division of Infectious Disease
Email: dfriedel@mcvh-vcu.edu
Patient Care Emphasis
pediatric hospitalist, HIV, nosocomial infections and gram positive infections including MRSA
Bio
Dr. Friedel received his medical degree from the University of Conneticut School of Medicine and completed his pediatric residency at the VCU Medical Center. Dr. Friedel recently completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease at the VCU Medical Center and became a faculty member in 2009.
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William C. Koch, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Email: wkoch@mcvh-vcu.edu
Patient Care Emphasis
General Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Bio
Dr. Koch received his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine where he also completed his residency training in Pediatrics. After two years in private Pediatric practice, he came to the VCU Medical Center for his Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship training, after which he joined the faculty in 1989. He served as the Director of Clinical Activities for the division until 2006 and currently serves as the Medical Director for the General Pediatrics Inpatient Service.
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Beth C. Marshall, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Email: bmarshall@mcvh-vcu.edu
Patient Care Emphasis
Pediatric HIV, General Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Bio
Dr. Marshall received her medical degree from the VCU School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in Pediatrics and subspecialty training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the VCU Health System. She joined the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics in 2003 and in 2004 became the Program Director for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases subspecialty training program.
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Michael A. McVoy, PhD
Professor
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Email: mmcvoy@vcu.edu
Bio
Dr. McVoy received his PhD from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at VCU. He completed a year of postdoctoral training at Stanford University with Dr. Edward Mocarski and returned to VCU in 1996 where he joined the faculty in the Departments of Pediatric. He is also an affiliate of the Departments of Microbiology & Immunology as well as of the Molecular Biology and Genetics Curriculum.
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