Medical Microbiology Pathology Fellowship
Overview
The Department of Pathology offers an ACGME-accredited fellowship in Medical Microbiology. The next available opening is for July 1, 2025.
The Medical Microbiology Fellowship training program is a one-year program designed for pathology residents and infectious diseases fellows from the U.S. or Canada. The objective of the fellowship is to prepare individuals for a career as a medical director of a clinical microbiology laboratory and leadership positions in industry.
After completion of Medical Microbiology Fellowship, the fellows have an opportunity to transition to a non-accredited research training in global health diagnostics. The objective of the research fellowship is to provide interested candidates with a practical opportunity to develop, field-test, and measure outcomes of diagnostic tests for infectious diseases of global health importance. For more information go here: Global Health Diagnostics Fellowship Program
Stanford establishes PGY levels for new fellows based on the successful completion of all prerequisite training required for entry into your fellowship program. Stanford does not recognize additional training beyond the prerequisite training requirements when establishing the PGY level for entry into the program.
Niaz Banaei, MD
Professor of Pathology and Medicine (Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine)
Medical Director, Stanford Health Care Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
Director, Stanford Clinical Microbiology Fellowship
Associate Program Director, Stanford Clinical Pathology Residency Training
Medical Microbiology Faculty
Niaz Banaei, MD
Professor of Pathology and Medicine (Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine)
Medical Director, Stanford Health Care Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
Director, Stanford Clinical Microbiology Fellowship
Associate Program Director, Stanford Clinical Pathology Residency Training
Niaz Banaei received his medical education from Stanford University. During medical school he developed a passion for infectious diseases diagnostics while conducting diagnostic research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mexico and South Africa. After medical school he completed residency training in Clinical Pathology at the University of California, San Francisco. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in tuberculosis pathogenesis at the New York University. He then moved back to Stanford University to join the department of Pathology and serve as Medical Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Stanford Health Care. He is currently a Professor of Pathology and Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine) at Stanford University and is the Director of Stanford Clinical Microbiology Fellowship and Stanford Global Health Diagnostics Fellowship. He is also the associate program director for Clinical Pathology training program. His research interests include (1) development, assessment, improvement, clinical impact of novel infectious diseases diagnostics and (2) immunopathogenesis of M. tuberculosis. He was the recipient of several teaching awards. He has authored over 170 scientific articles and holds a number of invention patents.
Current Medical Microbiology Fellow [2023-24]
Joeseph Pozdol, MD
Professional Education
Chicago Medial School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Residency
ECU Health Medical Center
Incoming Medical Microbiology Fellows [2024-25]
Jessica Hudson, MD
Medical School
Ross University School of Medicine
Residency
Loma Linda University
