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PAST FELLOWS

Name	Current Position & Affiliation	Research Interests/Projects
1998
Christine Hogan	Assistant Professor, Columbia University Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital	HIV clinical trials; acute HIV infection
Stephanie Factor	Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases, Mount Sinai Medical Center	Hepatitis C in drug users
1999
Wendy McGahee	Attending Physician in Addiction Medicine/HIV, St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital, & HIV at the Women and Children Care Center, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital Medical Director of the Chemical Dependency Unit of the Harlem East Life Plan's Substance Abuse Clinic	Staphylococcal infections in the ICU
Timothy Wilkin	Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College Investigator, Cornell Clinical Trials Unit Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital	HIV clinical trials; HPV
Cosmina Zeana	Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center	Epidemiological research on Acinetobacter baumannii
2000
Adam Keene	Assistant Professor, Codirector of Medical Intensive Care Unit, & Associate Program Director of Critical Care Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center	MRSA colonization and infection in the ICU
Joseph Lux	Attending Physician, HIV Clinic, New York University	HIV epidemiology in South Africa
Lynda Streett	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University Attending Physician, Stamford Hospital	HIV therapy & management
2001
David Ferris	Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases/AIDS Program, Bronx–Lebanon Hospital Center; Chairman of the Institutional Review Board at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center	Adherence to antiretroviral therapy in South Africa and in New York
Simon Tsiouris	Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Medicine	Prevalence of latent TB infection (LTBI) in South Africa; novel interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) for LTBI testing; TB/HIV operational research in resource-poor settings
Michael Yin	Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine	Bone mass and mineral metabolism in HIV-infected women
2002
Patricia Bronzert	Physician, Scarsdale Medical Group	General ID and HIV therapy
Yoko Furuya	Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control	Antimicrobial utilization and resistance; outcomes of nosocomial infections
Magdalena Sobieszczyk	Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine	HIV Prevention and HIV vaccines
2003
Sabrina Haas	Physician in Charge, Corona Chest Clinic, Tuberculosis Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene	Infections in liver transplant patients
Yoram Puius	Physician, Tufts New England Medical Center	Molecular basis of adherence of A. actinomycetemcomitans in endocarditis
Patricia Toro	Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Attending Physician, Harlem Hospital	Adherence/outcomes in HIV/TB coinfected patients (CAPRISA START Study); HIV/TB epidemiology in South Africa (Sequella Study)
2004
Jonathan Keith Joseph	Associate Physician, Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital Director, Malawi Project, Partners in Health	HIV resistance in the Dominican Republic
Rachel Gordon	Assistant Professor Clinical Medicine; Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology	S. aureus molecular epidemiology; molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis of ventricular assist device-related infections
Blayne Cutler	Director, HIV Prevention at the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene	HIV Prevention, Public Health
2005
James Brust	Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center	HIV/HBV and HIV/HCV co-infections. MDR-TB treatment failure in South Africa
Barbara Taylor	Instructor in Clinical Medicine, Columbia University Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital	HIV treatment outcomes and the development of antiretroviral resistance in the Dominican Republic. The impact of travel on HIV care among communities of dual-nationality
Hong Van Tieu	Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine	Immunologic markers as predictive facotrs for IRIS in HIV and TB co-infected patients in Thailand
2006
Katerina Christopoulos	Assistant Professor of Medicine in the HIV/AIDS Division at San Francisco General Hospital	HIV Testing and Counseling
Mary-Ann Etiebet	Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, University of Maryland School of Medicine Senior Clinical Technical Advisor, Institute of Human Virology-Nigeria	Delivery of Antiretroviral Care in Nigeria Hiv/aids, low resource settings, quality of care, art treatment failure, arv drug resistance
Noga Shalev	Instructor in Clinical Medicine	HIV and incarceration, reentry continuity care
Soniya Gandhi	Assistant Clinical Professor Division of Infectious Diseases David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles
2007
Marcus Rebello Pereira	Assistant Clinical Professor in Medicine	General ID, Complications of HIV and HIV treatment
Jason Kessler	Clinical Instructor in Medicine, NYU Medical Center
Anne-Catrin Uhlemann	Instructor in Clinical Medicine	Evolution of fitness in Staphylococcus aureus Determinants of drug resistance in the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum
2008
Marshall Fordyce	Instructor in Clinical Medicine	Development of ibalizumab for HIV prevention Research Interests: General infectious diseases, HIV, HIV prevention, HIV vaccine development, anti-CD4 antibodies
Sneha Jacob	Nicholas A. Rango AIDS Clinical Scholar
Jennifer Lynn Horan
Julie Myers	Director of Policy and Program Planning in HIV Prevention in the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Instructor in Clinical Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Medicine Columbia University Medical Center	Late HIV diagnosis, delayed entry into care Chemoprophylaxis for HIV prevention HIV self-testing HIV treatment outcomes in the Dominican Republic
2009
Nahid Bhadelia	Assistant Professor Associate Director of Hospital Epidemiology Infectious Diseases Liaison to National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory Section of Infectious Diseases Boston University	Emerging pathogens, comparative effectiveness and hospital epidemiology, bioterrorism pathogens
Aran Nichol	Instructor Division of Infectious Diseases University of Colorado School of Medicine	HIV Prevention, HIV Epidemiology, The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)
Benjamin Miko	Instructor in Clinical Medicine Department of Medicine Columbia University Medical Center	Epidemiology of hospital acquired infections, molecular epidemiology of bacterial infections
2010
Uzma Sarwar	Clinical Research Fellow, Lead Associate Investigator Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health
Asha Kapur	Clinician-Educator Stamford Infectious Diseases	HIV epidemiology and HIV clinical care

CURRENT FELLOWS

Name	Degree and Affiliation Prior to Training	Residency	Research Projects During Fellowship	Current Position, Support
2010
Tanya Ellman	MD, Cornell University Medical College	New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell	Assessing barriers and willingness to participate in HIV vaccine research among Latinos in New York City. New HIV diagnoses, linkage to care, and treatment outcomes among Latino and African-American older adults in New York City. A Nationally Representative Population Viral Load in Swaziland Engaging women and racial/ethnic minorities in HIV vaccine trials Assessment of Routine Voluntary HIV Testing on the Hospitalist Service http://www.hiv-studies.columbia.edu/hiv_vaccine.html	Third Year Fellow Bristol-Myers Squibb Virology Fellows Research Program
2011
Stephanie Pouch	MD, Temple University School of Medicine	University of Chicago	Infectious complications of solid organ transplantation Training in interdisciplinary research to prevent infections	Second Year Fellow TIRI Postdoctoral Trainee Fellow
Darpun Sachdev	MD, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University	Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY	Bridging advances in topical and oral chemoprophylaxis to HIV-Negative patients (BATON) http://www.hiv-studies.columbia.edu/hiv_vaccine.html	Second Year Fellow Bristol-Myers Squibb Virology Fellows Research Program American Medical Association Foundation Seed Grant Research Program Grant
Alysse Wurcel	MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Mass General Hospital	Currently Updating	Second Year Fellow

CURRENT FELLOWS

Name	Degree and Affiliation Prior to Training	Residency
2012
Angela Gomez-Simmonds	MD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School	New York Presbyterian Hospital
Heather Platt	MD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School	UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Matthew Scherer	MD, Weill Cornell Medical College	New York Presbyterian Hospital

TRANSPLANT INFECTIOUS DISEASES FELLOW

Name	Degree and Affiliation Prior to Training	Research Projects
2012

Claire L Gordon

MB, BS University of Melbourne Australia

Pathogen discovery in undiagnosed infectious syndromes and posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients; assessing low level cytomegalovirus viremia in SOT recipients and characterizing CMV antiviral resistance mutations; investigating tissue-specific T-cell memory to CMV

Labs:
Dr. Ian Lipkin at the Center for Infection and Immunity

Dr. Donna Farber at the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology