Infectious Diseases
FirstHealth of the Carolinas Infectious Diseases provides a variety of services related to prevention and treatment of disease caused by infectious agents including infections caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites. Physicians in this specialty are trained and board certified in Internal Medicine and have an additional two years of training and board certification in the specialty of Infectious Diseases. For more information, call (910) 715-5481.
Select Service
FirstHealth Infectious Diseases
Contact us
Passport Clinic
FirstHealth's Passport Clinic provides immunizations and advice for travelers as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Learn More
Patient Education
Examples of the type of problems that infectious disease physicians have expertise in diagnosing and treating include:
- Outpatient intravenous antibiotic therapy
- Infections of bone and joints and orthopedic hardware
- Complicated urinary tract infections
- Complicated skin and soft tissue infections
- Ostemyelitis
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- HIV infection and AIDS
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and tick-borne diseases
- Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases
- Travel immunizations and advice
- Fungal infections
- Complicated pneumonia
- Fevers of unknown origin
- Suspected primary immunodeficiency
- CNS infections including meningitis
- Suspected travel-acquired and exotic infections
Meet Our Team
Gretchen Shaughnessy Arnoczy, M.D.
Board Certified, Infectious Diseases
Madonna A. Biritwum, M.D.
Paul S. Jawanda, M.D.
Board Certified, Infectious Diseases
Amanda Geertgens, PA-C
Anna Leviere, PA-C
- Behavioral Services
- Bronchial Thermoplasty (BT) for Asthma
- Cancer Services
- Clinical Trials
- Community Health Services
- Dental Care Services
- Community Health Services - Mammography
- Diabetes and Nutrition Education
- Emergency Care
- Employee Assistance Program
- Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS)
- Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
- ENT, Head & Neck
- Fitness
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Geriatric Inpatient Medicine
- Healthy Living Programs
- Heart Services
- Home Care
- Hospice & Palliative Care
- Hospitalist Service
- Imaging Services
- Infectious Diseases
- Interventional Pain Medicine
- Lung Cancer Screening Program
- Medication Assistance
- Neurological Services
- Neurosurgery & Spine
- Occupational Health & Wellness
- Occupational Therapy
- Orthopaedics
- Pharmacy
- Pharmacy Residency Program
- Physical Therapy
- PreventT2
- Primary Care & Specialty Clinics
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Quit Tobacco Programs
- Rehabilitation-Inpatient
- Rehabilitation-Outpatient
- Robotic Surgery
- Sandhills Neurologists
- School Health
- Sleep Disorders
- Speech-Language Pathology
- Telehealth
- Urology
- Weight-loss Surgery
- Women & Children's Services
- Wound Care & Hyperbarics
- Maternal-Fetal Medicine