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Graphic of percentages of ID fellow alumni career areas
UNC ID Fellowship Alumni end up in a variety of career paths. This graphic demonstrates the percentage of alumni who have chosen and successfully followed careers in various sectors.

2021-2022 Trainees

  • Hareesh Singam, MD, MS, Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, University of Minnesota.

2020-2021 Trainees

  • Neha Kumar, MD, Faculty Inpatient Infectious Diseases and Critical Care, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
  • Madeline McCrary, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, John T. Milliken Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in S. Louis.
  • Theppharit “Mac” Panichsillapaki, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Missouri.
  • Daphne-Dominique Villanueva, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at West Virginia University in the Section of Infectious Diseases.

2019-2020 Trainees

  • Min Kim, MD, MSc, Physician, San Mateo County Health Department.
  • Arianne Morrison, MD, Instructor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Laura Rachal, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, University Medical Center and Tulane Medical Center.
  • Sarah Rutstein, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Academic researcher in HIV prevention, including implementation of PrEp.
  • Tyle Lambing, MD, Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine.

2018-2019 Trainees

  • Michael Sciaudone, MD, Section of Infectious Diseases, John W. Deming Department of Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine. Physician Scientist with a focus on global health. Conducting Tuberculosis diagnostic research in Peru.
  • Kathleen Tompkins, MD, Attending Physician at the University of Pennsylvania in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
  • Heather Root, MD, Attending Physician in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Montefiore Medical Center. Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
  • Nathaniel Warner, MD, Associate Clerkship Director and Assistant Professor, Department of Internal medicine (Infectious Diseases), Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

2017-2018 Trainees

  • Megan Srinivas, MD, MPH, Clinical Instructor, Translational Health Policy Researcher, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
  • Alena Janda Markmann, MS, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Clinician Scientist in morbidity and global public health burden of new and merging viruses.
  • Jeremy Nel, MBChB, FCP(SA), Cert ID (SA), Infectious Diseases Attending Physician at Helen Joseph Hospital, University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and an academic researcher working with Dr. Ian Sanne on HIV/TB, and issues related to co-infection and the immunocompromised host
  • Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Physician Scientist, diagnostic testing to improve the evaluation and management of infectious diseases in resource-constrained settings such as antimicrobial stewardship and antibiotic resistance.

2016-2017 Trainees

  • Lina Rosengren-Hovee, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Active Researcher at the BATLab working on behavior change for HIV Prevention and treatment.
  • Asher Schranz, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Clinical and research interests include endovascular infections, viral hepatitis, and HIV.

2015-2016 Trainees

  • Ribka Berhanu, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the Helen Joseph Hospital, where she sees patients on the infectious disease consult service.
  • Ross Boyce, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Clinical interest in the diagnosis and management of vector-borne diseases with a particular focus on tick-borne diseases endemic to central North Carolina.
  • Tim Menza, MD, PhD, Medical Director, HIV/STD/TB Section, Public Health Division, Oregon Health Authority

2014-2015 Trainees

  • Matthew Collins, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Infectious Diseases Clinician at Emory University School of Medicine. Researcher at Collins Lab studying arbovirus infection.
  • Christopher Hauck, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • Jonathan Parr, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Co-directed the UNC Division of Infectious Diseases inpatient COVID-19 services with research focuses on infectious diseases of poverty.
  • Sancta St. Cyr, MD, MPH, Project Officer for the Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP) in the Surveillance and Data Management Branch of the Division of STD Prevention at the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) as a Medical Officer.

2013-2014 Trainees

  • F. Parker Hudson, MD, MPH, FACP, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases, and Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, University of Texas at Austin.
  • James Lewis, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Department of Public Health Seattle – King County, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Washington.
  • Onyeka Nwankwo, MD, Infectious Diseases Clinician at Penn Medicine. Also a Hospital Epidemiologist and Chairperson of the Infection Prevention Committee at Pennsylvania Hospital.
  • Sara Williford, MD, Internist at Beth Israel Lahey Health in Burlington, Massachusetts

2012-2013 Trainees

  • Sophia Califano, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine. Also serving as the Deputy Chief Consultant for Preventive Medicine at the National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
  • Christopher Sellers, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Medical Director, Wake County Human Services, HIV, PrEP, and STI Clinics.
  • Andrea Shahum, MD, PhD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Stamford Health Medical Group, Connecticut.

2011-2012 Trainees

  • Michael Herce, MD, MPH, MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Senior Technical Advisor, UNICEF Project OHTA, Lilongwe, Malawi. Clinical interest in HIV care, tropical medicine, and tuberculosis (TB) management.
  • Arthur Jackson, MBBCh, DTMH, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General medicine at Cork/University Hospital/Mercy University Hospital in Cork City, Ireland.
  • Anne Lachiewicz, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Director, Immunocompromised Host Fellowship Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research activities include leading clinical trials for hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and other infections affecting severely ill patients.

2010-2011 Trainees

  • Alisa Alker MD, PhD, Infectious Diseases Physician, Mission Infectious Disease Associates, Asheville NC
  • Natalie Bowman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research focused on HIV and parasitic coinfections in Latin America.
  • Christopher Lippincott, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Clinical Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Nontuberculous Mycobacteria and Bronchiectasis
  • Michael Vinikoor, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama Birmingham; Associate Scientist, Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama Birmingham

2009-2010 Trainees

  • Satish Gopal, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine at UNC; Director of the Center for Global health at the National Cancer Institute (NCI); Cancer Program Director at UNC Project-Malawi; Principal Investigator for the Kamuzu Central Hospital Lymphoma Study; Principal Investigator of the Malawi Cancer Consortium; and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Malawi College of Medicine
  • Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases

2008-2009 Trainees

  • Ann Dennis, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases
  • William Messer, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at Oregon Health Sciences University
  • Victoria Mobley, MD, MPH, Medical Director of the HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch; Field Services Unit Director of the NC Div of Public Health, Epidemiology Section; Adjunct Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Epidemiology

2007-2008 Trainees

  • Gretchen Arnoczy, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist, FirstHealth, Moore Regional Hospital, Pinehurst, NC
  • Yvonne Carter, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist, Atrium Health, Concord, NC
  • Laura Guderian, MD, Clinician at One Medical Group, Internal Medicine, New York

2006-2007 Trainees

  • David Fitzgerald, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist at Kernodle Clinic (Duke affiliate) Burlington, NC
  • Christopher Hurt, MD, Associate Professor, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases; Director of the North Carolina HIV Training and Education Center; Co-Leader, UNC CFAR PrEP Scientific Working Group; UNC Site PI for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D
  • Joel Kammeyer, MD, MPH, Infectious Diseases Specialist at the University of Toledo Medical Center

2005-2006 Trainees

  • Mary Catherine Bowman, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases; Co-Director of the Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) Program
  • Jon Juliano, MD, MSPH, Professor of Medicine, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases; Associate Director of the UNC Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program
  • Cornelius Van Dam, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist, Cone Health Medical Group, Greensboro, NC

2004-2005 Trainees

  • Jeffrey Anderson, MD, PhD, HCC Program Lead Oncology Clinical Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • Brian Bramson, MD, Associate Professor, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases

2003-2004 Trainees

  • Joseph (Alex) Duncan, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases; Director of UNC’s Physician Scientist Training Program; Associate Director for Research, UNC Internal Medicine Residency
  • Cynthia Gay, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases; Medical Director, UNC HIV Cure Center
  • Emily Wong, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist at Doylestown Health, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

2002-2003 Trainees

  • Jaspaul Jawanda, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital
  • Dina Hooshyar, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Director, VA National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans

2001-2002 Trainees

  • Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH, Professor, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases; Principle Investigator, Behavior and Technology Lab at UNC (BAT Lab); Principle Investigator, iTech
  • Shannon Galvin, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

2000-2001 Trainees

  • Anthony Edozien, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Sherene Min, MDMPH, VP, Head of Clinical Development, ViiV Healthcare
  • Yoshihiko Murata, MD, PhD, Clinical Development Lead for Prevention, ViiV Healthcare
  • Kristine Patterson, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist and Associate Professor at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas

1999-2000 Trainees

  • Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH, Scientific Director of UNC Project-Malawi and Professor, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases

1998-1999

  • Bruce Israel, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist at Mission Infectious Diseases and Travel Clinic in Asheville, N.C.
  • Heidi Swygard, MD, Associate Professor, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases; and Medical Epidemiologist and Consultant for Special Projects with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services HIV/STD Prevention and Control Branch; and Viral Hepatitis Medical Director for the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Judith Ng-Cashin, MD, Chief Scientific Officer at Syneos Health

1997-1998

  • Michael Blocker, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist, Novant Health
  • Srilatha Edupuganti, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine
  • Christopher Pilcher, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco

1996-1997

  • Becky White, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases and Co-Director of HIV Services North Carolina Department of Corrections
  • Dickens Theodore, MD, Senior Director of Clinical Development at GlaxoSmithKline

1995-1996

  • Arlene Seña-Soberano, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases, and Medical and Lab Director of the Durham County Health Department

1994-1995

  • David Wohl, MD, Professor in the UNC Division of Infectious Diseases, Co-Director of HIV Services at the North Carolina Department of Corrections and Co-Director of the North Carolina AIDS Training and Education Center

1993-1994

  • Kimberly Fox, MD, MPH, Immunization Systems Branch Chief, CDC Global Immunization Division in Atlanta
  • Bruce Gilliam, MD, Professor, University of Maryland and Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
  • Meera Kelley, MD, Regional Medical Director at Landmark Health in Raleigh, N.C.
  • Sabina Lee, MD, Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine and Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center in Houston

1992-1993

  • Susan Isbey, MD, Clinician at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • Wanla Kulwichit, MD, Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
  • Pietro Vernazza, MD, Professor, Institut für Klinische Mikrobiologie und Immunologie, Switzerland

1991-1992

  • Beverly Alston, MD, Chief of the Complications and Co-infections Research Branch, DAIDS, NIH
  • Robert Wehbie, MD, Clinician at REX Hematology Oncology Associates-Wakefield

1990-1991

  • Holli Hamilton, MD, Senior Medical Officer of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
  • Andrew Kaplan, MD, Professor, UNC (deceased)
  • Dennis Walling, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist and Professor, Univ. of Texas, Galveston

1989-1990

  • Susan Cohn, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist and Professor, Northwestern University.
  • Jonathan Serody, MD, Researcher and Professor, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Daniel Shapiro, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist and Professor, St. Louis University School of Medicine

1988-1989

  • David Gutsch, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist in Minnesota
  • E. Byrd Quinlivan, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases (retired)

1987-1988

  • Paul Becherer, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist at Duke Raleigh Hospital
  • Robert D. Weber, MD, Private practice, Colorado Springs, C.O.

1986-1987

  • Edwin Brown, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist with Duke Health in Raleigh, N.C.
  • David Markovitz, MD, Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan

1985-1986

  • John S. Adams, MD, Private practice, Knoxville, T.N.
  • Steven Jenison, MD, NRP, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
  • Shannon Kenney, MD, Professor of Oncology and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

1984-1985

  • William McKenna, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist in Asheville, N.C.
  • Jack Stapleton, MD, Professor, University of Iowa

1983-1984

  • Bradley Britigan, MD, Professor and Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Susan Mertz Saviteer, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist in Concord, N.H.

1982-1983

  • Deirdre Achtellik Henderson, MD, Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine
  • Charles van der Horst, MD, Professor, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases (retired)

1981-1982

  • John R. Black, MD, Clinical Professor, University of Indiana
  • Peter Dandalides, MD, Principal at Progressive Healthcare, Inc.

1980-1981

  • James E. Peacock, MD, Professor in Division of Infectious Diseases at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
  • Robert J. Sherertz, MD, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
  • John Sixbey, MD, Infectious Diseases Specialist in Shreveport, L.A.