Rebecca Williams Widener, MD

Description

Rebecca Williams Widener, MD, is a native of South Carolina. Prior to medical school, she became involved with Family Connection of SC, a nonprofit for families who have children with special needs. Through them, Dr. Widener became interested in pediatric care. She attended medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, then pursued a residency in pediatrics at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. After serving as chief resident her last year there, she went on to Birmingham, Alabama, to specialize in pediatric infectious diseases at The Children's Hospital at the University of Alabama. Widener is excited to be part of Prisma Health Children's Hospital and UofSC as a pediatric infectious disease specialist.

Keywords toxoplasmosis encephalitis, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, transplant related infection, travel medicine, travel vaccination, traveler's diarrhea, trench fever, trichomoniasis, tropical medicine, trypanosomiasis, coccidioidomycosis, condyloma lata, congenital cytomegalovirus, congenital hepatitis b, congenital syphilis, cryptococcal meningitis, cryptococcosis, cryptosporidiosis, congenital hepatitis c, mycoplasma infection, mycosis, necrobacillosis, necrotizing soft tissue infections, neonatal herpes simplex, neonatal tetanus, neuroborreliosis, norovirus, onchocerciasis, osteomyelitis, rabies, rabies vaccination, rat bite fever, relapsing fever, rhinoscleroma, rhinosporidiosis, rocky mountain spotted fever (rmsf), roseola, rotavirus, rubella, cutaneous candidiasis, cystosarcoma phyllodes, cytomegaloviral pneumonia, dacryoadenitis, dengue fever, diphtheria, guinea worm disease (gwd), eastern equine encephalitis, ebola, echinococcus infections, haemophilus influenzae, haemophilus meningitis, hand foot mouth disease, hanta virus, helminthiasis, hepatitis, hepatitis a, hepatitis b, lymphogranuloma venereum (lgv), malaria, measles, melioidosis, meningitis, meningitis vaccination, meningococcal meningitis, metagonimiasis, streptococcal meningitis, subacute bacterial endocarditis, syphilis, taiga encephalitis, tetanus, tick borne encephalitis, tick borne infections, toxocariasis, toxoplasmosis, zika virus testing, zika virus, tuberculosis (tb) test, joint infection, infected hydrocele, human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids), west nile virus, yaws, fungemia, yellow fever, yellow fever vaccination, smallpox, spirochetal infection, splenic infection, sporotrichosis, spotted fevers, staphylococcus infections, staphylococcal meningitis, stomatitis monilial, streptococcal infections, acanthamoeba infection, amebiasis infection, anaerobic meningitis, anthrax, aspergillosis infection.