Dr. Oliver Bacon, an infectious disease specialist at UCSF Medical Center and the San Francisco VA Medical Center, cares for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at 360.

Bacon's clinical interests include general internal medicine, infectious disease, and HIV. In addition to caring for patients, he is pursuing research on the detection of early HIV infection in San Francisco and Brazil, on ways to incorporate HIV prevention into medical care, and on the use of Web-based clinical vignettes to evaluate training needs of HIV providers in resource-limited settings. Bacon also is a clinical instructor at UCSF, as well as Medical Director of the UCSF Center for HIV Information.

Dr. Bacon earned his medical degree from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and completed an internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. He went on to complete a graduate degree in public health at the University of California at Berkeley in 2001 as well as an infectious disease fellowship at UCSF in 2002.