Infectious Diseases Program Fellows
Academic Year 2024-2025
Welcome To Our New 2025 First Year Fellows
Welcome To Our New 2025 Transplant ID Fellows
First Year
Alvaro Ayala
CE Track
ID Interest:
Hobbies:
Residency: University of Connecticut
Med School: Universidad de Los Andes Facultad de Medicina (Colombia)
David Dickson
CE Track
ID Interest: Antimicrobial Stewardship and Medical Education
Hobbies: running, hiking, live music (specifically progressive metal), fantasy and sci-fi literature, cooking
Residency: UCLA
Med School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Christina Lin
ID/EIS Track
ID Interest: Public health/epidemiology, Global health/tropical medicine, Gram-negative bacterial pathogenesis
Hobbies: travel, cooking and baking, drawing/painting, trying new restaurants, running, reading
Residency: Emory
Med School: Yale School of Medicine
Nathan Pincus
Research Track
ID Interest: Microbial genomics, antimicrobial resistance, Transplant ID
Hobbies: Hiking, cycling, exploring local restaurants
Residency: Stanford
Med School: Northwestern University
Uttara Gadde
ASP Track
ID Interest:
Hobbies:
Residency: University of Pennsylvania
Med School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Wajeeha Tariq
HE-IPC Track
ID Interest: Global Health, Epidemiology/Public Health and Infection Prevention
Hobbies: Baking, hiking, board games
Residency: Louisiana State University Health Shreveport
Med School: Aga Khan University Medical College
Naveera Khan
CE Track
ID Interest:
Hobbies:
Residency: MedStar Georgetown
Med School: Aga Khan University Medical College
Jenna Wick
CE Track
ID Interest: HIV, TB
Hobbies: cooking, gardening, hiking, traveling
Residency: Kaiser Oakland
Med School: Temple University
Second Year
Radhika Arya
CE Track
ID Interest: Global Health/tropical medicine, Epidemiology/public health, Hospital epidemiology/infection prevention & control
Hobbies: Indian Classical Dance-Kathak
Residency: Georgetown
Med School: Kasturba Medical College Manipal
Jeffrey Bunker
Research Track
ID Interest: ICU-ID, Microbiology, Immunology, The Microbiome
Hobbies: Music, fitness, history, and travel
Residency: Stanford University
Med School: University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
Eugenia Miranti
HE-IPC Track
ID Interest: ICU-ID
Hobbies: Creative writing in the science fiction and fantasy genres and long walks
Residency: Stanford University
Med School: Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
Ritika Prasad
ASP Track
ID Interest: Global Health / tropical medicine, Epidemiology / public health, Hospital epidemiology / infection prevention & control, Antimicrobial stewardship, Medical Education, and Tuberculosis
Hobbies: Nature journaling, urban sketching, and botanical illustration.
Residency: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Med School: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Brian Dawes
Research Track
ID Interest: Global Health / tropical medicine, Epidemiology /public health, and Virology
Hobbies: Hiking, camping, kayaking, and wildlife photography
Residency: Stanford University
Med School: University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine
Jacob Schrum
Research Track
ID Interest: Transplant ID and Immunology
Hobbies: Reading, travel, golf, running, listening to medicine and golf podcasts, and KenKen puzzles
Residency: Stanford University
Med School: University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine
Vanessa Gow-Lee
CE Track
ID Interest: ICU-ID, Transplant ID, and Medical Education
Hobbies: Backpacking in the wilderness, reading literary fiction, running, cycling, and listening to podcasts
Residency: Chief Medical Resident at Mayo Clinic
Med School: Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Anirudh Tarimala
CE Track
ID Interest: ICU-ID,Epidemiology / public health, Antimicrobial stewardship, and Medical Education
Hobbies: - Hiking and Mountaineering, Dessert and Cocktail Making, Baseball Analytics, and Exploring new Restaurants and Cuisines
Residency: Stanford University
Med School: Ohio State University College of Medicine
Third Year
Grace Cullen
Research Track
ID Interest: Antimicrobial resistance, phage therapy, global health
Hobbies: Traveling, running, hiking, skiing, baking
Residency: Mayo Clinic
Med School: University College Dublin SOM
Rebecca Linfield
Research Track
ID Interest: HIV, Coccidioides, wastewater epidemiology, global health, public policy
Hobbies: Swimming, board games, exploring cookbooks
Residency: Stanford
Med School: UCLA
Guillermo Rodriguez
HE-IPC Track
ID Interest: Hospital epidemiology, data science, and emerging infectious diseases
Hobbies: Salsa dancing, sports, music, and space exploration
Residency: AMITA Health Saint Francis Hospital Evanston
Med School: Facultad de Medicina UNAM
Vanessa El Kamari
CE Track
ID Interest: HIV, viral immunology, gut microbiome, inflammation, network modeling
Hobbies: Hiking, traveling, eating
Residency: AMITA Health Saint Francis Hospital Evanston
Med School: Facultad de Medicina UNAM
Senior Fellows
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)
Abraar Karan
Research Track
ID Interest: Emerging pathogens, epidemics, global health equity
Hobbies: writing, traveling, working out, basketball, cooking
Residency: UCLA
Med School: Harvard
Immunocompromised Host Fellows
1 Year Fellowships (non accredited)
Mario Torres
Transplant ID
ID Interest: Infections in CART cell therapy and MedEd
Hobbies: Traveling, cooking, working out
ID Fellowship:
Residency:
Med School:
Koray Demir
Transplant ID
ID Interest: Invasive fungal infections, infectious diseases diagnostics, and clinical ethics in infectious diseases and transplantation
Hobbies: Cycling, live music, and travelling
ID Fellowship:
Residency:
Med School:
Alumni
ID and Transplant ID Fellowships
ID Fellowship
Graduates have published ~300 peer-reviewed journal articles in the last 5 years
| Grad Year | Name | Current position |
| 2024 | Vanessa El Kamari | Staff Research Scientist, Stanford Univ Div Infectious Diseases |
| Marten Hawkins | Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Divison of Infectious Diseases | |
| Rebecca Hamlin | Instructor, Stanford University SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Seth Hoffman | Instructor, Stanford University SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Melanie Kiener | Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine | |
| Leah Mische | Clinical Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and Associate Director of Infection Prevention & Control, Medical College of Wisconsin. | |
| Guillermo Rodriguez Nava | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford Univ Div Infectious Diseases | |
| Kyle Walding | Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University Div Infectious Diseases; Tuberculosis Physician and Epidemiologist, Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, New York City DOH | |
| 2023 | Caitlin Contag | Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, Stanford Univ SOM |
| Megan Dunning | Assistant Professor, University of Maryland SOM, Div Infectious Disease, Baltimore, MD | |
| Arya Khosravi | Instructor, Stanford University SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Karen Jocobson | Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, Vaccine Study Center | |
| Krithika Srinivasan | Medical Director of Employee Health, Univ of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX | |
| Mary Smith | Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Palo Alto VA, Palo Alto, CA | |
| Alex Zimmet | Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford Univ. SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| 2022 | Gustavo Contreras | Staff physician, Metro Infectious Diseases Consultants. Atlanta, GA |
| Katharine Dobos | Staff physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara, CA | |
| Julie Lee | Staff physician, Kaiser at South Bay Medical Center, Harbor City, CA | |
| Natalie Medvedeva | Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford Univ. SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Sharon Ong'uti | Clinical Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt SOM, Div of Infectious Diseases | |
| Joelle Rosser | Assistant Professor, Stanford University SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Ralph Tayyar | Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle WA | |
| 2021 | Mary Czech | Clinical Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Univ SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Nicholas Degner | Scientific Advisor, Karius, Inc., Redwood City, CA | |
| Arjun Rustagi | Instructor, Stanford University SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Ashley Styczynski | Staff Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Atlanta, GA | |
| 2020 | Shama Cash-Goldwasser | Senior Technical Advisor, Resolve to Save Lives, New York, NY |
| Christiaan deVries | Director of Clinical Research, Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA | |
| Jessica Ferguson | Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford Univ. SOM, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
| Melisa Shah | Staff Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division, 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, Foster City, CA | |
| 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, Critical Care Fellowship, New York, NY; Staff Physician, Memorial Healthcare System, Hollywood, FL | |
| Sudeb Dalai | Staff Physician, Investigator (Infectious Diseases), Palo Alto Medical Foundation, PAMF Research Institute; Adjunct Clin Asst Professor, Stanford SOM | |
| Susanna Tan | Senior Medical Scientist, Hepatitis B Clinical Research at Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA | |
| Makeda Robinson | Principal Scientist, Clinical Research & Translational Medicine Division at Merck | |
| 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, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |
| 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, New York NY; Instructor, Div. Infectious Diseases, 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, Division of Infectious Diseases, 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, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |
| 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. Infectious Diseases, Providence Holy Cross Medical 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 | |