David Lindholm MD, FACP, FIDSA

Education

Fellowship, Infectious Disease, San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (2016)
Residency, Internal Medicine, San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (2014)
Doctor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (2011)
Bachelor of Science, Cedarville University (2007)

Biography

Lt Col (Dr) David Lindholm is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Clerkship Director in the Department of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), serving as the site director for the core internal medicine clerkship rotation at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, TX. He graduated with highest honors from Cedarville University (Ohio) with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and minor in Bible, and he commissioned into the US Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps in 2007. In 2011, he earned his Doctor of Medicine from USUHS, where he was the valedictorian and elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed both his residency in internal medicine (2014) and fellowship in infectious disease (2016) at BAMC, achieving board certification in both specialties. He then completed a two-year tour at the Wright-Patterson Medical Center (WPMC) in Dayton, OH, where he served as chief of the infectious disease element, chair of the hospital’s antimicrobial stewardship and infection control programs, and faculty for the Wright State University Internal Medicine Residency. He was recognized as the subspecialist of the year by the WPMC Department of Medicine. Having returned to San Antonio in August 2018 with USUHS, he also serves as core faculty for the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC) Infectious Disease Fellowship and Internal Medicine Residency. He is the medical director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at BAMC, fellow of the American College of Physicians and Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the past President of the Armed Forces Infectious Diseases Society. He conducts faculty development across the Military Health System through USU’s Faculty Development Outreach and Certification for the Uniformed Services (FOCUS) program. He has been a recurring lecturer for the US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine’s Global Medicine Symposium, the USUHS Military Tropical Medicine Course, and various Defense Institute for Medical Operations courses. He has also served as site principal investigator for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease-sponsored Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial and the EPICC (Epidemiology, Immunology and Clinical Characteristics of Emerging Infectious Diseases with Pandemic Potential) natural history study of COVID-19. He has over 35 publications, including contributions to works in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Annals of Internal Medicine, Cell Host & Microbe, and Science Translational Medicine. His current research interests include COVID-19, emerging infectious diseases, travel/tropical medicine, and medical education.

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