Infectious Diseases Program Fellows
First Year
Gustavo Contreras Anez
CE Track
ID Interest: Immunocompromised Host, Ortho ID, and Critical Care
Hobbies: Traveling, cooking, exploring new cuisines. I am passionate about street photography.
Residency: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai St. Luke's-Roosevelt
Med School: University of Zulia School of Medicine (Venezuela)
Rebecca Hamlin
Research Track
ID Interest: Viral Immunology
Hobbies: Traveling, hiking, dining out, and wine-tasting
Residency: Hosp of Univ of Pennsylvania
Med School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Seth Hoffman
Research Track
ID Interest: Global Health — serving the world’s most underserved who disproportionately suffer from infectious
Hobbies: Surfing, bouldering, hiking
Residency: University of Maryland Internal Medicine Program
Med School: Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
Julie Lee
CE Track
Residency: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Med School: UCSD
Natalie Medvedeva
ASP Track
Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital
Med School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Ralph Tayyar
CE Track
Residency: Main Line Health Lankenau Medical Center
Med School: American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine (Lebanon)
Second Year
Mary Czech
CE Track
ID Interest: Immunocompromised ID
Hobby: Hiking
Residency: Medstar Georgetown Univ
Med School: Georgetown Univ
Nicholas Degner
Research Track
Katharine Dobos
CE Track
Residency: Stanford University
Med School: UCSD
Karen Jacobson
Research Track
ID Interest: Global Health
Hobby: Hiking with my family
Research Mentor: Prasanna Jagannathan
Residency: Yale-New Haven
Med School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Arya Khosravi
Research Track
Third Year
Joelle Rosser
Research Track
ID Interest: Global health and climate change
Hobby: Road biking
Research Mentor: Stephen Luby
Residency: Emory University
Med School: University of Washington
Arjun Rustagi
Research Track
Research Mentor: Catherine Blish
Residency: Stanford University
Med School: University of Washington
Fourth Year
Ashley Styczynski
Research Track
ID Interest: Global Health and Epidemiology
Hobby: Swing Dancing
Research Mentor: Stephen Luby
Residency: George Washington University
Med School: University of Illinois College of Medicine
Chief Fellows
Mary Czech
Arya Khosravi
ID Sub-Specialty Program Fellows
Transplant
ID & ASP
Nicolo Cabrera
Transplant ID
Hobbies: Binge-watching TV series, reading about politics and current events, eating out
ID Fellowship: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Residency: John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Med School: University of the Philippines College of Medicine
Jessica Ferguson
Transplant ID
ID Fellowship: Stanford University
Residency: Stanford University
Med School: UCLA David Geffen
Orlando Quintero
Transplant ID
ID Fellowship: Montefiore Medical Center
Residency: Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Med School: Universidad Libre de Cali (Colombia)
Sharon Onguti
Antimicrobial Stewardship
ID Fellowship: University of Texas Health San Antonio
Residency: University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston
Med School: University of Nairobi (Kenya)
Alumni
ID and Transplant ID Fellowships
ID Fellowship
Graduates have published ~300 peer-reviewed journal articles in the last 5 years
Year graduated |
Name |
Current Position |
| 2020 | Shama Cash-Goldwasser | Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Christiaan deVries | Instructor, Stanford University SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Jessica Ferguson | Transplant ID Fellowship, Stanford Univ. SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Melisa Shah | Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA | |
| Jose Suarez Isaacs | Transplant ID Fellowship, University of Miami Miller SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Vivian Tien | Staff physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara, CA | |
| 2019 | Tessa Andermann | Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Div. of Infectious Diseases, Chapel Hill, NC |
| Chitra Punjabi | Clinical Assistant Professor, Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Div. of Infectious Diseases, Bronx, NY | |
| Stacie Nishimoto | Infectious Diseases Physician, Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, Moanalua Medical Center | |
| Matt Hitchcock | Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, McGuire VA, Div. of Infectious Diseases, Richmond, VA | |
| Alex Yu | Medical Epidemiologist, Infectious Diseases Branch, California Deptartment of Public Health, Richmond, CA | |
| Elena Vendrame | Director of Clinical Research, Virology at Gilead Sciences | |
| 2018 | Jenny Aronson | Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford Univ. SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Amy Chang | Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford Univ. SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Prashant Upadhyaya | Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, CCM Fellowship, NYC, NY; Staff Physician, Westside Regional Hospital, Plantation, FL | |
| Sudeb Dalai | Staff Physician, Investigator (ID), Palo Alto Medical Foundation, PAMF Research Institute; Adjunct Clin Asst Prof, Stanford SOM | |
| Susanna Tan | Senior Medical Scientist, Hepatitis B Clinical Research at Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA | |
| 2017 | Noah McKittrick | Clinical Associate, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, MD |
| Ashrit Multani | Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA David Geffen SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Dana Clutter | Staff physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Kaiser Permanente, South San Francisco, CA | |
| Lily Horng | Medical Officer, Immunization Branch, California Deptartment of Public Health, Richmond, CA | |
| 2016 | Paul (Ravi) Waldron | Staff physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Kaiser Permanente, San Jose, CA |
| Carlos Gomez Alvarez | Assistant Professor (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine, Div. Infectious Diseases, Salt Lake City, UT | |
| John Openshaw | Instructor, Stanford University SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| 2015 | Eugene Richardson | Assistant Professor, Dept. Global Health & Social Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| Joanna Nelson | Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford Univ. SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Sana Ahmed | Medical Epidemiologist, Lake County (Ill.) Health Department; formerly Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, CDC | |
| Michael Gelman | Assistant Professor, Medicine & Infectious Diseases, Icahn SOM at Mt. Sinai; Staff physician, ID, VA Medical Center, Bronx NY | |
| Sean Collins | Associate Director, HIV Clinical Research at Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA | |
| 2014 | Jesse Waggoner | Assistant Professor, Emory University Dept of Medicine and Div of Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA |
| Elizabeth Robilotti | Associate Chief, Medical Epidemiology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC NY; Instructor, Div. of ID, Weill Cornell SOM | |
| Marisa Holubar | Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford Univ. SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Madeline Slater | TB Physician, San Diego County Department of Public Health and Staff Physician, Scripps Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA | |
| Michele Tang | Staff Physician, Brown & Toland Physicians/Sutter Medical Network, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Div. of ID, Oakland, CA | |
| Eva Mortensen | Medical writer, Ascendis Pharma, Palo Alto, CA | |
| 2013 | Shanthi Kappagoda | Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford Univ. SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Elizabeth Soda | Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA | |
| Amanda Kamali | Medical Epidemiologist, Infectious Diseases Branch, Calif Dept Public Health, Richmond, CA; Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, CDC | |
| Harleen Gakhar (Sahni) | Staff physician, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, San Jose, CA | |
| Stanley Wang | Associate Medical Director, AbbVie Biopharmaceuticals, Chicago, IL | |
| George Melikian | Staff physician, Facey Medical Group Div. of ID, Providence Holy Cross Med Center and Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, Valencia, CA | |
| 2012 | Gina Suh | Senior Associate Consultant, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rochester, MN |
| Victor Herrera | Assistant Director, Internal Medicine Residency and Director of GME Research, Univ. Central Florida & Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL | |
| Candice McNeil | Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest University, Wake Forest, NC | |
| 2011 | Joanna Schaenman | Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA David Geffen SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles, CA |
| Philip Grant | Assistant Professor, Stanford Univ. Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Stephanie Troy | Medical Officer, Div Antiviral Products, FDA, Washington, DC. Formerly Asst Professor, E. Virginia Medical School, Div of ID |