Darcy Wooten, MD, MS, FIDSA
Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Director
- Email: darcyw@nospam.wustl.edu
Dr. Wooten is a nationally recognized leader in ID and HIV medical education, serving as the ID Fellowship Program Director, Vice Chair of Education, and Director of Educational Program for the WashU Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases. She currently serves as the Chair of IDSA’s Medical Education Community of Practice. Her clinical focus encompasses general infectious diseases and HIV primary care.
Dr. Wooten is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University in St. Louis where she also serves as the ID Fellowship Program Director, Vice Chair of Education, and Director of Educational Program for the Division. She earned a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University and a master’s degree in health and medical sciences from UC Berkeley. She completed her medical school training and Internal Medicine residency at UC San Francisco, followed by an ID Fellowship at Harbor UCLA. Before joining Washington University, Dr. Wooten was the ID Fellowship Program Director at UC San Diego. She is a nationally recognized leader in ID and HIV medical education. She currently serves as the Chair of IDSA’s Medical Education Community of Practice.
Her clinical focus encompasses general infectious diseases and HIV primary care. She has a particular interest in cardiometabolic disease among people living with HIV, as well as in expanding the use of long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapies.
Infectious Diseases Clinic
- Physical Address: 620 South Taylor Avenue, St. Louis, MO, United States
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Mailing Address:
620 South Taylor Ave., Suite 100
St. Louis, MO 63110
- Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program, WashU Medicine
- Director, Educational Initiatives, WashU Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases
- BA with Honors, Standford University (2003)
- MS, University of California, Berkeley (2007)
- MD, University of California, San Francisco (2009)
- Internal Medicine Internship and Residency, University of California, San Francisco (2012)
- Infectious Diseases Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles at Harbor (2014)
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Subspecialty of Infectious Diseases
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases Associate Editor (2022 – present)
- Vice Chair, Executive Committee, IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice (2023 – present)
- Fellow of the IDSA, Infectious Diseases Disease of America (2023 – present)
- Best Clinical Teacher Award, ID/GPH, UCSD (2024)
- Best Mentoring Award, ID/GPH, UCSD (2024)
- Fellow Well-Being Champion Award, ID/GPH, UCSD (2024)
- Excellence in Mentoring in Medical Education Award (nominee), UCSD DOM (2024)
- Master Clinician, UCSD SOM (2024)
- Excellence in Education Award, Department of Medicine Awards, Washington University School of Medicine (2026)