A senior man with glasses wearing a gray blazer and blue tie, smiling at the camera.

DeVon C. Hale, MD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Internal Medicine

Divisions: Infectious Diseases

Board Certification

  • National Board of Medical Examiners
  • American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Infectious Disease)
  • American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)

DeVon C Hale, MD, is a physician at the University Hospital Clinic 1A. As an infectious disease physician, his clinical interests include tropical infectious diseases and travel medicine.

Hale received his medical degree from the University of Utah in 1969. He received training in medicine and infectious diseases from the Ohio State University, University of California, Irvine and the University of Utah. In the past, Hale served as Director of the Tropical Disease and Travel Medicine Clinic at the University and is a consultant to six travel medicine clinics in Utah. He is currently a member of the International Society of Travel Medicine and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He is co-director of the Utah site for the GeoSentinel surveillance program funded by the CDC. He is the Assistant Dean of International Medical Education and has helped establish educational programs for the University of Utah Global Health Initiative.

Education History

Undergraduate University of Utah
 BS
Professional Medical University of Utah School of Medicine
 MD
Residency Ohio State University
 Resident
Residency Kern County Medical Center
 Resident
Fellowship University of California - Irvine
 Fellow
Fellowship University of Utah School of Medicine
 Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Mendelson M, Davis XM, Jensenius M, Keystone JS, von Sonnenburg F, Hale DC, Burchard GD, Field V, Vincent P, Freedman D (2010). Health risks in travelers to South Africa: the GeoSentinel experience and implications for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 82(6), 991-5.
  2. Hale DC, Blumberg L, Frean (2003). Ghanthostomiasis in Two Travelers to Zambia. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 68(6), 707-9.
  3. Flores-Figueroa J, Okhuysen PC, von Sonnenburg F, DuPont HL, Libman MD, Keystone JS, Hale DC, Burchard G, Han PV, Wilder-Smith A, Freedman D (2011). Patterns of illness in travelers visiting Mexico and Central America: the GeoSentinel experience. Clinical infectious diseases, 53(6), 523-31.
  4. Regina C. LaRocque, Sowmya R. Rao, Jennifer Lee, Vernon Ansdell, Johnnie A. Yates, Brian S. Schwartz, Mark Knouse, John Cahill, Stefan Hagmann, Joseph Vinetz, Bradley A. Connor, Jeffery A. Goad, Alawode Oladele, Salvador Alvarez, William Stauffer, Patricia Walker, Phyllis Kozarsky, Carlos Franco-Paredes, Roberta Dismukes, Jessica Rosen, Noreen A. Hynes, Frederique Jacquerioz, Susan McLellan, DeVon Hale, Theresa Sofarelli, David Schoenfeld, Nina Marano, Gary Brunette, Emily S. Jentes, Emad Yanni, Mark J. Sotir, Edward T. Ryan, and the Global TravEpiNet Consortiu (2012). Global TravEpiNet: A National Consortium of Clinics Providing Care to International Travelers'Analysis of Demographic Characteristics, Travel Destinations, and Pretravel Healthcare of High-Risk US International Travelers, 2009¿2011. Clinical infectious diseases, 54(4), 455-462.
  5. Tuteja AK, Talley NJ, Gelman SS, Alder SC, Thompson C, Tolman K, Hale D (2008). Development of functional diarrhea, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, and dyspepsia during and after traveling outside the USA. Digestive diseases and sciences, 53(1), 271-6.
  6. Tuteja AK, Fang JC, Al-Suqi M, Stoddard GJ, Hale D (2012). Double-blind placebo-controlled study of mesalamine in post-infective irritable bowel syndrome--a pilot study. Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology, 47(10), 1159-64.
  7. Sofarelli TA, Ricks JH, Anand R, Hale D (2011). Standardized training in nurse model travel clinics. Journal of travel medicine, 18(1), 39-43.
  8. Anand R, Jones CW, Ricks JH, Sofarelli TA, Hale D (2012). Acute primary toxoplasmosis in travelers returning from endemic countries. Journal of travel medicine, 19(1), 57-60.
  9. Chen BR, Hale DC, Ciolek PJ, Runge K (2012). Generation and analysis of a barcode-tagged insertion mutant library in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. BMC genomics, 13(1), 161.
  10. Crookston BT, Alder SC, Boakye I, Merrill RM, Amuasi JH, Porucznik CA, Stanford JB, Dickerson TT, Dearden KA, Hale DC, Sylverken J, Snow BS, Osei-Akoto A, Ansong (2010). Exploring the relationship between chronic undernutrition and asymptomatic malaria in Ghanaian children. Malaria journal, 9, 39.

Letter

  1. Zhang F, Yi C, Feng C, Alder SC, Hale DC, Amy Lee Y (2012). The evaluation of feasibility and expectations of study abroad among Chinese medical students. Medical teacher, 34(4), 338.