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Obtained MSCR during fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>Mentors: Sonia Napravnik, Joseph Eron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4154,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[158,134,160,156,154],"class_list":["post-5411","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-all-faculty-profiles","ud_division-fellows","ud_division-fourth-year-fellows","ud_division-infdis-fellows","ud_division-main-dom","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Commanday","ud_first_name":"Alex","ud_gallery_summary":"","ud_telephone":false,"ud_email":"","ud_positions":[{"ud_title":"Fourth Year Fellow"}],"ud_options":[],"ud_sort_order":""},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/infdis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1276\/2022\/06\/Commanday-Alex.jpeg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/infdis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1276\/2022\/06\/Commanday-Alex-214x300.jpeg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/infdis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1276\/2022\/06\/Commanday-Alex.jpeg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/infdis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1276\/2022\/06\/Commanday-Alex.jpeg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/infdis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1276\/2022\/06\/Commanday-Alex-150x150.jpeg","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alex Commanday, MD | Division of Infectious Diseases<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/infdis\/people\/alex-commanday-md\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alex Commanday, MD | Division of Infectious Diseases\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I came to UNC because of the people and culture. 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