[Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System] [University of Arizona] [Campaign Arizona] [The University of Arizona Foundation ] [Arizona Health Sciences Center]

Valley Fever can be a serious illness. It is estimated that there are about 100,000 cases in the southwestern U.S. each year, most of which resolve on their own. But in patients with serious complications from the disease and those with immunosuppression (including AIDS and organ transplants), diagnosis and treatment is often complicated and expensive, and current therapy is sometimes inadequate to cure patients. Additionally, many visitors from regions where Valley Fever is not endemic develop Valley Fever after returning home from the Southwest, and their physicians may not be familiar with the disease.

The Valley Fever Center for Excellence (VFCE) was established in 1995 to promote education, research and patient care for Valley Fever (coccidioidomycosis). The Valley Fever Center for Excellence is located at the Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System's facility (Tucson VA Medical Center) and is jointly sponsored by the University of Arizona and the Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System.. The center provides information to the public, physician consultations with VFCE physicians, physician referrals for patients, and promotes research into all aspects of the disease. Patients may be seen at the Valley Fever evaluation and treatment clinic in St. Luke's Clinic, University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona. Category A and service connected veterans are eligible for treatment at the Valley Fever (cocci) clinic at the Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System (SAVAHCS) (Tucson VA Medical Center).

The Valley Fever Center for Excellence relies solely upon tax-free donations and grants to the foundation for its continued support. Contributions to the Biomedical Research Foundation enable the Center to continue in its mission to find improved ways of reducing risk and improving medical treatment. It is through your generous donations that we are able to continue serving the public through research, education and the treatment of this disease. To support the work of the Center, please send a check made payable to:

The University of Arizona

Tax ID # 86-6004791

Our mailing address is:
Valley Fever Center for Excellence
Mail Stop 1-111
3601 S. 6th Avenue
Tucson, Arizona 85723

Telephone HOTLINE can be reached at (520) 629-4777. We can also be reached toll-free from anywhere in Arizona through the Tucson V.A. Medical Center at
(800) 470-8262 : This number is for the Veteran's hospital,
ask the switchboard operator for the Valley Fever Center for Excellence.   

Or send us e-mail at:
vfever@email.arizona.edu

John N. Galgiani, MD, Director