Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

1275 York Avenue

New York, NY 10065

Phone: 212 639 3151
Fax: 646 422 2124
Website: https://www.mskcc.org/hcp-education-training/fellowships/infectious-diseases
Email: kaltsasa@mskcc.org

Training Program Director

Anna Kaltsas MD, MS

Research Interests: medical education, infections in the immunocompromised host

Participating Hospitals

Memorial Sloan-Kettering : 434
The NY Hospital-Cornell Med. Ctr.: 1039
Bellevue Hospital - New York University: 912

Program Training Offerings

How does this program meet the ABIM requirements for training in clinical microbiology?

Didactic Lectures
infection control rotation, infection control meetings

The Program provides training in hospital epidemiology through:

Didactic Lectures
Continuity Clinic

The Program provides clinical experience for fellows in the following:

Infections in marrow transplant
Infections in solid organ transplant patients
Infections in travelers and tropical medicine
Infections in children

This Program provides training in STD management through:

Didactic Lectures
Courses Elsewhere
Attendence
outpatient clinics

The Program has a didactic lecture course for fellows:

Yes

If yes, what is the average number of lectures provided over a two-year period?

100

Training is for:

MD
DO

Are there citizenship requirements?

Types of visas accepted:

H1B, J

Number of fellows accepted each year:

2 - 3

Duration of the Fellowship (years):

2 - 3

The Program has a training grant (T32):

Average number of infectious diseases consults per trainee per year:

250

Number of Fellows completing the Program in the last 5 years:

Additional Training/Faculty Resources (optional):

Clinical Research Methodology Curriculum (for second year fellows) and training in Antimicrobial Stewardship

Applications accepted via Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS®)?

Yes

Timeframe when applications are accepted:

Timeframe when interviews are done

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases

Eric Pamer , MD , Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases

Research Interests: innate and adaptive immue responses to infection by microbes, with a particular focus on the role of the intestinal microbiota and the mucosal immune system in preventing infections by antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens.

Faculty

Esther Babady , PhD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: clinical microbiology

Arthur E. Brown , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: employee/occupational health

Cesar J. Figueroa Ortiz , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: effects of chemotherapy and antibiotics on endogenous bowel flora and antimicrobial resistance

Michael S. Glickman , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: Molecular pathogenesis of mycobacterial infections

Tobias Hohl , MD, PhD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: infections in the highly immunocompromised host, immune recognition and response to Aspergillus

Anna Kaltsas , MD, MS , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: medical education, infections in the immunocompromised host, C. difficile

Mini Kamboj , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Hospital infection control, molecular diagnostics

Yeon Joo (June) Lee , MD, MPH , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: infections in leukemia and bone marrow transplant patients, viral infections in stem cell transplant recipients

Peter A. Mead , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: central nervous system and urinary tract hardware infections, antimicrobial stewardship, pharmacy and therapeutics

Genovefa Papanicolaou , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: viral infections in immunocompromised hosts, infections in bone marrow transplant recipients, antiviral and antifungal drug trials

Susan K Seo , MD , Assoc. Prof

Research Interests: antimicrobial stewardship, pharmacy and therapeutics

Gil Redelman-Sidi , MD , Asst. Prof

Research Interests: infections with mycobacteria (including atypical) in immunocompromised hosts, BCG therapy for bladder cancer

Elizabeth V. Robilotti , MD, MPH , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: infection prevention, hospital epidemiology and molecular diagnostics

Kent Sepkowitz , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: Hospital infection control, tuberculosis

Monika Shah , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: medical education and HIV and women

Yi-Wei Tang , MD, PhD , Prof.

Research Interests: clinical microbiology and molecular diagnostics

Ying Taur , MD, MPH , Instr.

Research Interests: intestinal tract bacterial diversity, gastrointestinal microbiome, infections in immunocompromised and stem cell transplant patients

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