Bookmark and Share

News Releases by Subject and Date

Research
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Your Health
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Medical and Dental Education
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Miscellany
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
All Subjects
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

News Release

June 11, 2010

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
e-mail: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu

Infectious Disease Physician Joins UConn Health Center

Dr. Trini Mathew Also Serving as Hospital Epidemiologist

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Dr. Trini Mathew has joined the University of Connecticut Health Center in the dual role of infectious diseases physician and hospital epidemiologist.

A hospital epidemiologist, sometimes referred to as an infection-control specialist, is a clinician who studies and reviews the incidence, distribution and control of disease.

After earning her medical degree with honors from the Tver State Medical Academy in Tver, Russia, Mathew completed her residency training and chief residency in internal medicine at the Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. She completed a clinical fellowship in infectious diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and pursued research on tuberculosis and alcohol use disorders in the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston. Her Master of Public Health degree is from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, where she also served as an instructor. She joins the UConn Health Center from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where she was an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases.

Mathew’s particular areas of interest include HIV, tuberculosis, alcohol use disorders, and infections in the immunocompromised. She also is seeing patients at the International Traveler’s Medical Service, which provides medications, immunizations and pre-trip counseling for those traveling to parts of the world that may expose them to unfamiliar health risks.

Mathew is a resident of Farmington.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/mathew.jpg
Caption: Dr. Trini Mathew is the UConn Health Center’s new hospital epidemiologist and is seeing patients in its Infectious Diseases Division and its International Traveler’s Medical Service.

To make an appointment in the Infectious Diseases Division, call 800-535-6232 or 860-679-7692.

UConn Health includes the schools of medicine and dental medicine, the UConn Medical Group, University Dentists, and John Dempsey Hospital. Home to Bioscience Connecticut, UConn Health pursues a mission of providing outstanding health care education in an environment of exemplary patient care, research and public service. More information about UConn Health is available at www.uchc.edu.

Note: News professionals are invited to visit the UConn Health Today news page (http://today.uchc.edu) for regularly updated news and feature stories, photos and media stories. News releases are archived at http://today.uchc.edu/newsreleases/2014. UConn Health news and information is also available on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.