Infectious Diseases Fellowship Columbia - Faculty
Meet our faculty
Pamela Bailey, DO, MPH, is a board-certified infectious diseases specialist at Prisma Health in Columbia, South Carolina. After completing undergraduate degrees in history and neuroscience at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, she attended medical school at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, WV. She completed her internal medicine residency at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, DE, and her fellowship in infectious diseases at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in Richmond, VA. Dr. Bailey completed an additional fellowship/research year at VCU in hospital epidemiology and infection control, and obtained her master's degree in public health (MPH). Her research interests include antimicrobial stewardship (ASP), infection prevention (IP), and she does DHEC and CDC grant sponsored work regarding education in those areas, specifically addressing urban/rural disparities in ASP and IP in SC.
Rajeev Bais, MD, joined the Division of Infectious Diseases in 2015 as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine. He currently serves as Director of the Carolina Survivor Clinic, which provides comprehensive care to refugees who are survivors of torture. Dr. Bais is also involved with developing a Global Health and Human Rights Initiative in the Division of Infectious Diseases. He is also the Founder and Director of the Carolina Survival Clinic.
Brandon Bookstaver, Pharm.D., FCCP, FIDSA, BCPS, is an associate professor and director of Residency & Fellowship Training in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences at the College of Pharmacy. Dr. Bookstaver also maintains a practice site in infectious diseases at Prisma Health Richland where he serves as director of the Infectious Diseases PGY2 Residency and Clinical Fellowship programs. Dr. Bookstaver serves as co-director of the Penicillin Allergy Assessment and Skin Testing national certificate program and the research network, Southeastern Research Group Endeavor (SERGE-45).
Dr. Bookstaver received his doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy in 2004. He completed a pharmacy practice residency (2004-2005) and an infectious diseases specialty residency (2005-2006) at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
His research Interests are antimicrobial stewardship, clostridioides difficile infections, managing penicillin allergies, pharmacy trainee scholarship.
Sangita Dash, MD, is an infectious disease specialist with Prisma Health in Columbia, South Carolina. She received her medical degree from Shri B.M. Patil Medical College in Karnataka, India. She completed her Internal Medicine residency training at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in New York and her Infectious Disease fellowship training at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dr. Dash currently serves as clinical assistant professor in internal medicine with the Division of Infectious Disease at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She participates in teaching of residents, fellows, and medical students. She is also the Hospital Epidemiologist for Prisma Health Midlands Columbia campuses. She works closely with the Infection Prevention and Quality teams to help prevent hospital acquired infections.
Dr. Caroline Derrick graduated from the South Carolina College of Pharmacy in 2013. Upon graduation she completed a PGY-1 at Prisma Health Richland and an Infectious Diseases PGY-2 through the South Carolina College of Pharmacy partnered with Prisma Health Richland. Dr. Derrick is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and her primary research interests include Amp-C producing organisms, Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS. Caroline has taken a position with the USC Immunology Clinic.
Joseph Horvath, MD, joined the Division of Infectious Diseases in 1996 where he is currently Associate Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine. He graduated medical school from Temple University Medical School in 1988, and completed his residency at the University of Connecticut Health Center in 1991. Dr. Horvath also completed an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1994 before joining the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. His academic interests include infectious diseases, fungal infections, and immunocompromised hosts.
Julie Ann Justo, Pharm.D., M.S., BCPS-AQ ID, is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences at the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy. She maintains a practice site in infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship at Prisma Health - Richland.
Dr. Justo received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy in 2009. She completed a one-year pharmacy practice residency in 2010 and a three-year infectious diseases pharmacotherapy fellowship in 2013 at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy. She also received a master's degree in Clinical and Translational Science from the UIC School of Public Health.
Dr. Justo is a board-certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist with added qualifications in infectious diseases. Her research interests include the clinical impact of antimicrobial stewardship programs, gram-negative infections, and pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modeling.
She is an active member of a multiple professional pharmacy organizations, including the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP), and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). She also serves as a core member of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaborative of South Carolina (ASC-SC).
Dr. William M. Wooten currently serves as a clinical assistant professor of infectious disease and critical care medicine. He is originally from Charleston, SC and completed undergraduate studies at South Carolina State University. He went on to graduate from medical school at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. Subsequently, he completed internal medicine residency at the Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, OH. After graduation from residency, he completed an infectious disease and critical care medicine fellowship at the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine in Greenville, NC. Dr. Wooten has interests in multi-drug resistant infections, particularly in the intensive care unit setting, opportunistic diseases in the immunocompromised population, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and point-of-care ultrasonography. He loves teaching as he is a past inductee of the Ohio State Courage to Teach Society. In his free time, he enjoys weight-lifting, golfing, and traveling. He is excited to be back home in South Carolina.