Past Fellows
Kelly Rowe, MD
- 2020-2022
Residency: Temple University Hospital
Area of Research: Medical Education
Current Position: Temple University Hospital
Donald Dietz, MD
- 2019-2021
Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
Area of Research: Hospital epidemiology
Current Position: Patient Safety Research Fellow, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Justin Laracy, MD
- 2019-2021
- Residency: New York Prebyterian, Columbia Campus
- Area of Research: Transplant
- Current Position: Transplant ID at Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York
Sherif Shoucri, MD
- 2019-2021
- Residency: NYU School of Medicine
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Associate Hospital Epidemiologist, NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn
Current Position: Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
Ofole Mgbako, MD
- 2018-2021
- Residency: New York University
- Area of Research: HIV
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, New York University; Population Health Section Chief of Infectious Diseases, Bellevue Hospital Clinical Pillar Lead, NYU Institute for Excellence in Health Equity
Emily Miller, MD, PhD
- 2018-2021
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Current Position: Instructor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Logan Bartram, MD
- 2018-2020
- Residency: Tulane Medical Center
- Area of Research: HIV and General ID
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Daniel Winetsky, MD
- 2017-2020
- Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Area of Research: Hepatitis C treatment and prevention in vulnerable patient populations
- Current Position: Instructor in Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Jennifer Small Saunders, MD, PhD
- 2016-2020
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Drug development, evaluation of small molecule inhibitors for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases
- Current Position: Instructor in Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Deborah Theodore, MD
- 2017-2019
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Transplant infectious diseases, treatment of invasive fungal infections
- Current Position: Instructor in Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Thomas McConville, MD
- 2016-2019
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Molecular epidemiology of multi-drug resistant bacteria: bacterial genomics
- Current Position: Instructor in Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Tristan McPherson, MD
- 2016-2018
- Residency: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Medicine & Pediatrics)
- Area of Research: Biomedical HIV prevention; clinical research in HIV vaccines; HIV/tuberculosis; access to care and implantation science
- Current Position: Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Nenad Macesic, MD
- 2015-2018
- Residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship: Alfred Hospital, Austin Health (Australia)
- Area of Research: Molecular epidemiology of MDR Gram-negative infections in solid organ transplant recipients; bacterial genomics; mechanisms of drug resistance
- Current Position: Infectious Diseases Physician and Researcher at the Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Jason Zucker, MD, MS
- 2015-2018
- Residency and Chief Residency: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (Medicine & Pediatrics)
- Area of Research: HIV prevention cascade and using technology to address gaps in care; Adolescent HIV care; Zika virus transmission and effects on pregnant mothers
- Current Position: Instructor in Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Justin Aaron, MD
- 2015-2017
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Management of latent tuberculosis in transplant recipients
- Current Position: Instructor in Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Priya Kodiyanplakkal, MD, MS
- 2014-2017
- Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
- Area of Research: Determinants of pulmonary infection and allograft rejection in lung transplant recipients
- Current Position: Clinical Instructor in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Benjamin Patterson, MD
- 2014-2016
- Residency: New York University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Global health; HIV treatment in resource-limited settings
- Current Position: Physician, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Lucy Cheng, MD
- 2014-2016
- Residency: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Area of Research: Epidemiology of MDR Gram-negative infections
- Current Position: Private Practice/Valley Health System
Eloise Austin, MD
- 2013-2017
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: MRSA genomics; molecular epidemiology and clinical outcomes of staphylococcal infections
- Current Position: Instructor in Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
William Greendyke, MD
- 2013-2016
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Hospital epidemiology; rapid molecular diagnostics of bloodstream infections
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Marcia Wong, MD, MPH
- 2013-2016
- Residency: Mount Sinai Medical Center (Medicine & Pediatrics)
- Area of Research: ART implementation in the developing world; behavioral and psychosocial determinants of ART adherence in the developing world
- Current Position: City Health Specialist, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Angela Gomez-Simmonds, MD, MS
- 2012-2015
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Molecular epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial resistance
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Matthew Scherer, MD
- 2012-2014
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: HIV/HCV co-infection and access-to-care in marginalized patient populations
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Heather Platt, MD
- 2012-2014
- Residency and Chief Residency: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
- Area of Research: HIV/HCV co-infection, epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections
- Current Position: Clinical trials management, Merck
Claire Gordon, MD, MS
- 2012-2013 (Transplant Infectious Diseases).
- Residency and Fellowship: Austin Health and Alfred Hospital (Melbourne, Australia)
- Area of Research: Tissue-specific T-cell memory control of CMV; tissue sites of CMV activity in healthy organ donors and transplant recipients
- Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Stephanie Pouch, MD, MS
- 2011-2014
- Residency and Chief Residency: The University of Chicago Hospital
- Area of Research: Infectious complications of solid organ transplantation
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, The Ohio State University
Darpun Sachdev, MD
- 2011-2012
- Residency and Chief Residency: Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Area of Research: HIV prevention; HIV clinical trials
- Current Position: Clinical Prevention Specialist, San Francisco Department of Public Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Alysse Wurcel, MD
- 2011-2012
- Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Area of Research: Role of intestinal permeability in progression of cirrhosis among HIV/HCV coinfected individuals
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University
Tanya Ellman, MD, MPH
- 2010-2013
- Residency: Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Area of Research: Aggregate HIV viral load measurements as a tool for monitoring HIV epidemics
- Current Position: Instructor in Clinical Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center; Associate Research Scientist, ICAP, Mailman School of Public Health
Asha Kapur, MD
- 2010-2012
- Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Area of Research: HIV epidemiology and clinical care
- Current Position: Attending Physician, Stamford Infectious Disease Associates
Uzma Sarwar, MD
- 2010-2012
- Residency: New York University Medical Center
- Area of Research: HIV vaccine development
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD
- 2009-2011
- Residency and Chief Residency: Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Area of Research: Emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism, hospital epidemiology
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Liaison to the National Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Boston University
Aran Nichol, MD
- Aran Nichol, MD 2009-2011
- Residency and Chief Residency: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
- Area of Research: HIV epidemiology and prevention; international medical education
- Current Position: Attending Physician, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Benjamin Miko, MD, MS
- 2009-2012
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Molecular epidemiology of community-associated S. aureus infections
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Marshall Fordyce, MD
- 2008-2011
- Residency and Chief Residency: New York University Medical Center
- Area of Research: HIV prevention, HIV vaccine development, anti-CD4 antibodies
- Current Position: Associate Director of Clinical Research, Gilead Sciences
Jennifer Horan, MD, PharmD
- 2008-2011
- Residency and Chief Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Infectious complications of solid organ transplantation and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University
Julie Myers, MD, MPH
- 2008-2011
- Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Area of Research: HIV epidemiology; HIV testing and prevention
- Current Position: Director of Policy and Program Planning in HIV Prevention, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Instructor in Medicine, Columbia University
Marcus Pereira, MD, MPH
- 2007-2009
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Anti-malarial properties of azithromycin-chloroquine
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Jason Kessler, MD, MPH
- 2007-2010
- Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Area of Research: Comparative effectiveness of HIV care and treatment
- Current Position: Instructor in the Division of Comparative Effectiveness and Decision Science, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine
Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, PhD
- 2007-2010
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Molecular epidemiology and bacterial pathogenesis
- Current Position: Associate Professor of Medicine, Columbia University
Katerina Christopoulos, MD
- 2006-2008
- Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Area of Research: HIV testing and linkage to care
- Current Position: Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Mary Ann Etiebet, MD
- 2006-2008
- Residency: Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Area of Research: Global health; ART implementation in Nigeria
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Senior Clinical Technical Advisor, Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria
Soniya Gandhi, MD
- 2006-2009
- Residency: Brown University Alpert School of Medicine
- Area of Research: Global health; relationship of program-level factors with CD4 count at ART initiation in sub-Saharan Africa
- Current Position: Director of Infection Control and Director of Hospitalist Program, Marina Del Rey Hospital, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
James Brust, MD, MS
- 2005-2008
- Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Community-based treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in South Africa
- Current Position: Associate Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Hong van Tieu, MD
- 2005-2008
- Residency: Boston University Medical Center
- Area of Research: Immunological determinants of IRIS in HIV/TB co-infected patients in Thailand
- Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Barbara Taylor, MD, MS
- 2005-2008
- Residency and Chief Residency: Columbia University Medical Center
- Area of Research: HIV treatment in the Dominican Republic; impact of travel on HIV
- Current Position: Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio