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Featured Educators

The Leadership Group of the Medical Education Community of Practice aims to showcase the groundbreaking work of medical educators in ID. All educators are eligible, including: Faculty, Fellows, Pharmacists, and Advanced Practice Providers. Through the Featured Educator web page, we hope to highlight innovative education practices among our members, encourage collaboration among educators, and inspire those pursuing medical education careers. By doing so, we can exchange novel ideas and best practices, implement successful concepts in our own institutions, and establish partnerships to work together across institutions. Please join us in celebrating each of the dedicated and inspiring education professionals featured here!

Featured Educators

  • Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS

    Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS

    University of California San Francisco School of Pharmacy

    As a faculty member in pharmacy, Dr. Conan MacDougall teaches a preclerkship course in Infectious Diseases and for many years directed ID pharmacy residency. UCSF's strong emphasis on interprofessional education gives him opportunities to work with all their health professions trainees. As an ID pharmacist and steward, he gets the opportunity to work with ID fellows and faculty and providers from every specialty - every clinical discussion is a teaching opportunity. He also helps to lead efforts at a school and university level around incorporating technology in education, particularly with the advent of AI. 

  • Caline Mattar, MD

    Caline Mattar, MD

    Washington University in St. Louis

    Dr. Caline Mattar serves as the Associate Program Director for their Infectious Diseases Fellowship and as the Director of Global Health Education and Partnerships for the School of Medicine. She started her career with the internal medicine residency program where she served as an APD, leading a Pathway for Global Health and Health Equity. 

  • Paul Sax, MD

    Paul Sax, MD

    Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

    Dr. Paul Sax has been privileged to teach infectious diseases in just about every format -- on the wards, in the clinic, in lectures large and small, and through writing. His goal is always the same: make complicated ID topics clear, practical, and, if possible, entertaining. Whether it’s teaching a fellow about vertebral osteomyelitis or writing a blog post about absurdly definitive antibiotic duration (5 or 7 days or multiples), he tries to create that “lightbulb moment” for learners.
     

  • Cole Beeler, MD

    Cole Beeler, MD

    Indiana University School of Medicine

    Dr. Beeler is interested in the education of providers, trainees, and other hospital staff in infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, and infectious diseases.  He serves as the key clinical educator for the division of Infectious Diseases and works closely with residency, fellowship, and medical school educational initiatives.

  • Gayathri Krishnan, MD, MHPE

    Gayathri Krishnan, MD, MHPE

    Washington University School of Medicine

    As a faculty, Dr. Gayathri Krishnan serves as the site lead for the ID Ambulatory Immersion rotation, faculty advisor for the ID student interest groups (IDIG), President and Curriculum Chair for the DOM Fellows Council and Core Faculty for IM Residency. She strives to raise awareness on gender inequities in medicine and amplify, advocate for, and support women trainees and their career development. Locally, she serves as the Director for the WashU Forum for Women in Medicine Trainee Leadership Development Program (FLDP) which aims at training and equipping women trainees with critical leadership skills. Nationally, this passion of hers has lead her to develop the @women_in_ID group in X (currently suspended). Through participation in the IDA&E and the Mentorship workgroup, she strives to promote resources and support for women and other underrepresented minorities in medicine. 

  • Dan Minter, MD

    Dan Minter, MD

    University of California San Francisco School of Medicine

    Dr. Dan Minter is an academic clinician educator at UCSF where he attends on the transplant/general ID services, ID clinic, and medicine wards with a variety of trainees. He co-directs a course for the UCSF medical school focused on reinforcing foundational sciences during the clinical years, directs a curriculum focused on case-tracking for ID fellows, and co-directs their ID division grand rounds (where they have worked on piloting a new clinical reasoning case conference series). He loves teaching and thinking about clinical reasoning, and (with Dr. Varun Phadke at Emory) serve as a co-editor for a new clinical problem-solving series in CID called "Clinical Dilemmas in Infectious Diseases (CDID)" that focuses on the complex reasoning of ID specialists. 

  • Rachel Bartash, MD

    Rachel Bartash, MD

    Montefiore Health System Albert Einstein College of Medicine

    As the program director for their Infectious Diseases fellowship, Dr. Rachel Bartash is able to work with medical students, residents and fellows as an educator. From medical student didactics to bedside rounds to divisional case conferences, her educational roles are incredibly varied. However, her greatest interest is in fellowship didactics and curriculum development. 

  • Daniel Solomon, MD

    Daniel Solomon, MD

    Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School

    Dr. Daniel Solomon is a clinician educator in the ID division at Brigham and Women's Hospital.  He serves as the Associate Program Director for the Mass General Brigham ID fellowship, and the Fellowship Site Director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  He is also the Associate Director for clinical learning in the Health Sciences and Technology Track at Harvard Medical School where he directs the foundational clinical skills course and oversees the clinical transition from the pre-clerkship phase to the clinical phase of medical school.

  • Jasmine Marcelin, MD

    Jasmine Marcelin, MD

    University of Nebraska Medical Center

    Dr. Marcelin is an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine. All of her clinical time is on teaching services with learners and she also lectures in the COM, summer health professions program, and other areas on an annual basis. From 2018-2019 she was co-Director of the HIV Enhanced Medical Education Track program in the College of Medicine, involving direct education and mentorship of students with an interest in HIV medicine. From 2019-2024 she was an Associate Program Director in the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and in that role developed a thriving resident curriculum on Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion. She is currently the Vice Chair of Equity & Inclusive Excellence in the Department of Internal Medicine and involved with education and developing initiatives related to building a culture of inclusive excellence in their department. 

  • Chelsea Gorsline, MD

    Chelsea Gorsline, MD

    University of Kansas Medical Center

    Dr. Chelsea Gorsline is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC). Her clinical interests are immunocompromised patients such as those with malignant hematological conditions and recipients of stem cell and solid organ transplants. She is an Assistant Director in the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, with a focus on the implementation of stewardship initiatives for immunocompromised patients. She is also the Director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Pathway for the KUMC Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program and conducts clinical research in solid organ transplant and malignant hematology patient populations.

  • Emily Blumberg, MD

    Emily Blumberg, MD

    Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

    After starting out with a focus on undergraduate medical education, Dr. Blumberg switched to working in Graduate Medical Education in 2003, when she became the Fellowship Training Program Director at the University of Pennsylvania.  She has been especially interested in creating opportunities for trainees to develop their skillset in diverse areas of ID based on their own unique career goals.  She has worked with her colleagues to develop specialized training tracks to help prepare fellows for their future careers and has consistently incorporated fellow and faculty feedback to enhance the training experience.

  • Saira Butt, MD

    Saira Butt, MD

    Indiana University School of Medicine

    Dr. Saira Butt is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and teaches fellows, residents, and students on their consult services and ambulatory clinics. She is the Program Director of the Adult ID fellowship-training program at Indiana University. Dr. Butt also contributes to ID medical education on social media. She has been involved with IDSA program director's committee and IDSA community of practice, and is currently serving as the chair of the teaching and learning workgroup.

  • Jen Babik, MD, PhD

    Jen Babik, MD, PhD

    University of California San Francisco

    Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD is the Program Director for ID Fellowship at UCSF. Before that, she was previously an Associate Program Director in the ID Fellowship and also in the Internal Medicine Residency at UCSF. Her primary interests in medical educational are working to optimize the educational environment for their ID fellows, developing best practices for effective teaching by consultants, curriculum development in subspecialty education, and gender and racial/ethnic diversity in the internal medicine subspecialites. She also gives lectures on clinical ID for students, residents and fellows in their residency and fellowship core lecture series. She is also the Mentoring Facilitator for junior faculty in the ID Division at UCSF Health.

  • Zanthia Wiley, MD

    Zanthia Wiley, MD

    Emory University School of Medicine

    Zanthia Wiley, MD, is fortunate to educate in many arenas to those with different levels of healthcare literacy.  She teaches medical students, residents, ID fellows, and pharmacy residents.  She is also fortunate to educate the community about the importance of vaccinations. These venues are as small as a few people at a shelter for people experiencing homelessness to the largest national organization of African American physicians, the National Medical Association.

  • Jeremey Walker, MD

    Jeremey Walker, MD

    Heersink School of Medicine

    Jeremey Walker, MD thoroughly enjoys working with medical students and serves in a co-director role for both a Microbiology course for MS-1 students and the Medicine Clerkship for MS-3 students. He is a Learning Community Mentor which spans across all four years and includes a curriculum focused on wellness, professional development, ethics and inter-professional teamwork. He enjoys curriculum development and particularly incorporating gamification into curricular design.

  • Christopher Graber, MD, MPH

    Christopher Graber, MD, MPH

    VA Greater Los Angeles

    Christopher Graber, MD, MPH is a Program Director for the UCLA Multicampus Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. His current research interests are in providing cognitive support for antimicrobial prescribing decisions at the point of care, diagnostic stewardship, and provision of feedback on prescribing patterns. More recently, he has developed an interest in how to promote equity and quality in infectious diseases fellowship recruitment, retention, and career development.

  • Todd McCarty, MD

    Todd McCarty, MD

    Heersink School of Medicine

    Todd McCarty, MD is an associate professor and the current ID Fellowship Program Director at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. His primary education interests focus on professional development across the spectrum of medical education. He is also a learning community mentor for medical students spanning all four years of the medical school curriculum, as well as the current chair of the Medical Education Committee.

  • Roger Bedimo, MD

    Roger Bedimo, MD

    UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Roger Bedimo, MD was the Fellowship Program Director at the University of Texas Southwestern medical center in Dallas for a decade. Helping Infectious Diseases Fellows and Internal Medicine Residents navigate the often steep learning curve and nurturing their passion and drive for the profession has always been very rewarding for him. He now enjoys mentoring ID Fellows and Medicine Residents on clinical rotations and for their scholarly activities. This is one of the highlights of his career.

  • Michelle Doll, MD, MPH

    Michelle Doll, MD, MPH

    Virginia Commonwealth University

    Michelle Doll, MD, MPH is a clinical infectious disease physician and teaches fellows, residents, and students on their consult services and ambulatory clinics. She teaches public health to the pre-clinical medical students. She is also the medical co-director of the Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center, a state-wide curriculum providing infection prevention and control education to anyone working in the healthcare field.

  • Molly Paras, MD

    Molly Paras, MD

    Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School

    Molly Paras is an Infectious Diseases physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Education Track) at Harvard Medical School as well as the Program Director for the combined Massachusetts General Hospital & Brigham and Women’s Hospital ID Fellowship. In addition, she has had several medical education roles through the Infectious Diseases Society of America including as a member of the National Program Director Committee, the Antimicrobial Stewardship Curriculum Committee, and the steering committee for the Joint ID Fellowship/Epidemic Intelligence Service Program. She is also a clinician educator in the inpatient and outpatient ID practice as well as the inpatient general medicine service teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. Her medical education interests include multidisciplinary communication, fostering trainee interest in ID as a career, curriculum development as well as faculty development. More broadly within ID, her interests include cardiovascular infections, the intersection of ID and substance use disorder, infection prevention and control, and antimicrobial stewardship.

  • Reuben Arasaratnam, MD, MPH

    Reuben Arasaratnam, MD, MPH

    UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Reuben Arasaratnam is an Infectious Diseases Staff Physician at the Dallas VA Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine (Clinical-Educator Track) at UT Southwestern Medical Center, with additional roles as one of the Associate Program Directors for the ID Fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Medical Education Director for our Medical Services Line at the Dallas VA Medical Center. Additionally, he serves as an Academic Colleges Mentor for medical students, mentoring groups of 5–6 students in professional clinical skills training.  He is also currently a member of the Infectious Diseases Item-Writing Task Force with the American Board of Internal Medicine. As far as his medical education interests, they lie primarily in the areas of clinical reasoning, diagnostic excellence, and faculty development, though he does have broader-ranging clinical interests in the diagnosis and management of infections in the immunocompromised host, vaccination, mycobacterial infections, and penicillin allergy.

  • Jessica Newman, DO

    Jessica Newman, DO

    University of Kansas Medical Center

    Jessica Newman is a small group (CBCL) leader in the KU School of Medicine, serves as SOM Infectious Diseases Threadhead, Phase I Block Clinical Content Advisor, Director of the KU SOM Main Campus Infectious Diseases Student Enrichment Experience and the Internal Medicine Student Chief Elective. She is also a Co-Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship, an Internal Medicine Core Faculty member and Residency Program Infectious Diseases Subspecialty Education Coordinator. Additionally, she has membership in the KU SOM Academy of Medical Educators and serves on the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice Mentorship Working Group.

  • Siddharth Kogilwaimath, MD

    Siddharth Kogilwaimath, MD

    UT Southwestern Medical Center

    I am an Infectious Diseases specialist with a keen interest in HIV and other STBBIs as well as treating infections in people who inject drugs. I previously worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, where I was heavily involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. In order to address the acute need for HIV care providers, I spearheaded a medical education project that received funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada, and this program was instrumental in training primary care physicians from across the province in HIV care. Due to its popularity, we expanded this program to cover hepatitis C and other STBBIs.

  • Jehan Budak, MD

    Jehan Budak, MD

    University of Washington

    Jehan Budak is an Associate Editor for the National HIV Curriculum. In addition to serving as Assistant Medical Director for the Madison Clinic (the HIV clinic at Harborview), she is the HIV Pathway Director for the Internal Medicine Residency, the site director for the Clinical ID and the Clinical HIV clerkship electives, and the co-director of a pre-clinical medical school elective about the clinical management of HIV. She also serves on the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice ID Week Working Group.

  • Devang Patel, MD

    Devang Patel, MD

    University of Maryland School of Medicine

    I am the Assistant Dean for the Pre-Clerkship Curriculum for our undergraduate medical school curriculum and the Embedded Content Lead for all Infectious Diseases taught in the curriculum. I am also the Service Chief for MED ID which is our hospitalist service for patients admitted with HIV infection or other complex infections. In the ID Division, I am the Director of Medical Education and previously served as Associate Program Director for the ID Fellowship.

  • Varun Phadke, MD

    Varun Phadke, MD

    Emory University School of Medicine

    I am a clinician-educator and faculty member in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University. I am passionate about teaching and assessing clinical reasoning skills – this encompasses clinical teaching, didactic activities (think morning reports, case conferences, etc.), faculty development, and learner remediation. I am privileged to be able to explore this interest with many different levels of learner through various educational leadership roles, including most recently being named Assistant Vice Chair of Education for Clinical Reasoning in the Department of Medicine. I also serve as Associate Program Director of the Emory ID Fellowship Program, Core Clinical Faculty in the IM Residency Program, Clerkship Director of the M3 Core IM Clerkship, and Director of the Microbiology Thread in the preclinical curriculum. Finally, I am the current Chair of the Teaching and Learning Resources Workgroup within the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice and Past Chair of the Education Workgroup within the AST ID Community of Practice.

  • Sara Dong, MD

    Sara Dong, MD

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Boston Children's Hospital

    I am currently a combined Adult & Pediatric (Med-Peds) Infectious Diseases Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Boston Children’s Hospital. I’m passionate about innovating and advancing digital education to teach about infectious diseases! I focus most of my teaching and workshops on helping trainees and faculty build their digital education skill sets, such as creating and utilizing infographics or navigating social media. I created and run the Febrile podcast and learning platform as a resource about high-yield ID topics (https://febrilepodcast.com/), and I also am a co-host for another podcast called Infectious Diseases Puscast, which provides updates on new ID literature releases. I have also loved my roles in the PIDS Education Committee and the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice Teaching & Learning Resources workgroup.

  • Luke Strnad, MD

    Luke Strnad, MD

    Oregon Health & Science University

    I’m the Associate Program Director for our OHSU Infectious Diseases Fellowship, where I’m fortunate to work with and learn from our Program Director, the amazing Erin Bonura. For the last five years, I have also directed our fellowship program’s weekly HIV curriculum. Additionally, I’m currently the co-director of our own IDSA MedEd COP’s IDWeek Clinician Educator Coaching Program along with Andrea Zimmer (who was featured here in Nov 2021!) and just cycled off our Mentoring Workgroup. Some of the best parts of my career are the longitudinal mentoring relationships I’ve had with trainees and junior faculty at OHSU and other institutions and opportunities to provide coaching or sponsorship. I’m very interested in integrating structural determinants of health concepts into medical education and have been teaching about this to multiple different learner groups over the last few years.

  • Nicolás Cortés-Penfield, MD

    Nicolás Cortés-Penfield, MD

    University of Nebraska Medical Center

    My primary educational interest and mission have been sharing new medical literature with peers and near-peers (so mainly attending physicians, pharmacists, APPs, ID fellows and ID PharmD residents). For several years in fellowship, I ran a monthly literature roundup website called IDjournal.club, and then once I became a full-time faculty (and parent) and no longer had dozens of free hours a month to devote to that, I shifted focus to @IDJClub, a monthly global ID journal club held on Twitter, which I co-run with a few other faculty across the US and Canada. At UNMC, in addition to the standard faculty teaching responsibilities, I co-run two workshops focused on teaching practical antibiotic knowledge and how to approach "antibiotic failure" with interactive cases to second-year students about to enter clinical rotations and fourth-year students about to enter residency.

  • Wendy Stead, MD

    Wendy Stead, MD

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    In addition to serving as the proud Program Director for our BIDMC Infectious Diseases Fellowship, I am the Blumgart Firm Chief for our BIDMC Internal Medicine Residency Program, a role that allows me to teach and mentor many of our medicine residents. My research interests in medical education include interdisciplinary projects that bring together providers from different specialties to build consensus about controversial topics. More recently in my career, with a group of amazing collaborators and the support of IDSA, I have been studying gender bias in academic advancement. I also love narrative medicine, writing essays about my inspiring patients, and also helping to guide other providers interested in sharing their stories.

  • Dana Blyth, MD

    Dana Blyth, MD

    Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

    I’m the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Director, and I'm passionate about applying the principles of deliberate practice to expertise in medicine, teaching clinical reasoning, and trying to understand and improve recruitment to infectious diseases. I love my roles as the Chair of the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice IDWeek Workgroup, a member of the ABIM ID Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment Approval Committee, and a faculty member for the Faculty Development Outreach and Certification for the Uniformed Services (FOCUS) program.

  • Erin Bonura, MD, MCR

    Erin Bonura, MD, MCR

    Oregon Health & Science University

    In Undergraduate Medical Education, I am the Prematriculation Block Director and Thread Director for Microbiology & Immunology. In Graduate Medical Education, I am the Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program and in CME/Professional Development, I am the Co-Director of the Education Scholars Program.

  • Alice E. Barsoumian, MD

    Alice E. Barsoumian, MD

    San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium/ Brooke Army Medical Center

    I am the ID Fellowship Program director and I'm mainly interested in teaching clinical reasoning, antimicrobial stewardship, and understanding recruitment to the field of Infectious Diseases. I am fascinated by the challenge of teaching learners how to think and implement what they've learned.

  • Gerome V. Escota, MD

    Gerome V. Escota, MD

    Park Nicollet Clinic and Specialty Center Minneapolis MN

    I served as Co-director of the Infectious Disease Fellowship Program from 2020-2021 and Clerkship Director for Internal Medicine from 2018-2021 at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. I was also the inaugural Chair of the Teaching and Learning Resources Committee of the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice from 2019-2021. I am a co-author of one of the bestselling books in infectious disease Comprehensive Review of Infectious Diseases. My main area of interest is medical education through innovative platforms such as social media.

  • Bobbi Pritt, MD, MSc

    Bobbi Pritt, MD, MSc

    Mayo Clinic

    I love working with learners of all backgrounds who are interested in clinical parasitology, vector-borne diseases, and the pathology of infectious diseases. While I serve in several formal education leadership roles, my favorite way of interacting with learners is in small groups and one-on-one. I also enjoy educating through social media and my blog “Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites”.

  • Darcy Wooten (she/her/hers), MD, MS

    Darcy Wooten (she/her/hers), MD, MS

    University of California San Diego

    I currently serve as the Program Director for the ID Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to becoming PD, I was the Associate Program Director for four years. I direct the Clinical Foundations Course for first and second-year medical students at UCSD SOM which teaches clinical skills (history-taking, physical exam, communication skills, and clinical reasoning) and problem-based learning. I am a proud member of IDSA’s Med Ed COP and am part of the Teaching and Learning Resources workgroup. I also serve as an exam committee member for ABIM’s ID Board Certification and Recertification exams.

  • Priya Nori, MD

    Priya Nori, MD

    Montefiore Health System Albert Einstein College of Medicine

    My passion is to educate all types of learners on antibiotic use best practices, pandemic preparedness and emerging infections. I love to integrate educational technology, like smartphone apps and EMR decision support tools into the day-to-day functions of a clinician. As stewards and ID providers, our role is to support the frontline and make their lives easier with our innovations. I also consider myself a "friend-tor" to several fellows and junior faculty. My #1 advice to them is: find your passion and go all in. Immerse yourself in it, learn as much as you can, and strive for the best.

  • Alfredo Mena Lora, MD

    Alfredo Mena Lora, MD

    University of Illinois at Chicago

    I am an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I've had the opportunity to serve as associate program director for our internal medicine residency and program director for our infectious diseases fellowship. I also teach M1/M2s at the College of Medicine and lead the IM interest group. I also lead the IM clerkship at Saint Anthony Hospital. Medical education is one of my passions, and I love contributing to medical education at all levels. I try to incorporate history in everything that I do, connecting current concepts to how they evolved in the medical literature and medical history. Inevitably, I learn more from my students and residents as they challenge my medical knowledge and help me improve my teaching style. The Roman philosopher Seneca said it best: “Homines dum docent discunt." (We learn the most by teaching.)

  • Natasha Chida, MD, MSPH

    Natasha Chida, MD, MSPH

    Johns Hopkins University

    I am focused on graduate medical education. I work with residents in my role as internal medicine residency program director for the Osler program and with fellows in my role as associate fellowship program director. Prior to becoming residency program director this year, I directed the Medical Education Pathway for our residency and served as a clinical coach for the residency. I am interested in women in medicine, career planning/transitions for GME trainees, and how we can use education to develop the next generation of HIV providers.

  • Jennifer Spicer (Jen), MD, MPH

    Jennifer Spicer (Jen), MD, MPH

    Emory University School of Medicine

    Jennifer Spicer is course director of the Introduction to Human Disease course at Emory University School of Medicine, Director of the Medical Education Distinction for the internal medicine (IM) residency, and Subspecialty Curriculum Lead for the IM residency. She currently serves on two committees for IDSA: the Teaching and Learning Resource working group for the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice and the Digital Strategy Advisory Group. In addition, she represents the Southern Region on the Professional Development Committee of the Medical Education Scholarship Research and Evaluation section of the AAMC. She is currently completing her Master in Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is passionate about developing the teaching and scholarship skills of trainees and faculty, and her research interests lie in the areas of curriculum co-creation with learners and promoting medical education careers, particularly within medicine subspecialties.

  • Andrea Zimmer, MD

    Andrea Zimmer, MD

    University of Nebraska Medical Center

    I co-direct the preclinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases content within the University of Nebraska Medical Center School of Medicine’s preclinical curriculum, including the Blood, Defenses, and Invaders and Multi-organ System blocks. In addition, I am the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Associate Program Director and Director of the Oncology Infectious Diseases program; I get to teach fellows and residents about infections that occur in immunocompromised patients, particularly those with hematologic malignancies and transplant recipients. I also serve as the ID Division’s representative to the Department of Internal Medicine’s Faculty Development and Mentoring Task Force. I have interests in interactive learning modalities and faculty mentoring and development.

  • Michael Melia, MD

    Michael Melia, MD

    Johns Hopkins University

    I've been the director of the Johns Hopkins ID fellowship training program since July 2015 after having served as the associate director beginning in January 2010. I've served as the Chair of the IDSA training program directors’ committee since October 2019 - my term ends at IDWeek 2021. I'm also the current Chair of the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice IDWeek Workgroup - that term also ends at IDWeek 2021. I'm an associate director within the Osler Medical Housestaff Training Program, focusing on faculty engagement and house staff coaching.

  • Prathit Kulkarni, MD

    Prathit Kulkarni, MD

    Baylor College of Medicine | Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center

    My current educational roles include serving as the Associate Program Director for our adult Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. In addition, I am an Associate Course Director for the first-year medical students' introductory course in Infectious Diseases. I also serve as one of the Site Directors for our hospital for Baylor's Internal Medicine Residency Program. Finally, as Assistant Chief of Medicine for our hospital, I help oversee the educational training environment within the Medicine service. My educational interests include infectious disease education for all types of healthcare professionals, diagnostic and clinical reasoning in internal medicine and infectious diseases, incorporating evidence-based medicine into clinical practice, and career development.

  • Teena Chopra, MD, MPH

    Teena Chopra, MD, MPH

    Wayne State University

    I am a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Wayne State University and the Corporate Medical Director of Hospital Epidemiology, Infection Prevention and Antibiotic Stewardship at Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University. My research interests include Epidemiology of Healthcare-associated Infections, Infection Prevention, Antibiotic Stewardship, and Immunization.

  • Carlos M. Isada, MD, FACP, FCCP

    Carlos M. Isada, MD, FACP, FCCP

    Cleveland Clinic

    I have served as Fellowship Program Director in ID at the Cleveland Clinic for 25 years (1994- 2019). I have also been an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Cleveland Clinic over most of that time. My main interests in medical education have been in curriculum development, high fidelity simulation, Problem Based Learning (PBL) in graduate medical education, and interdisciplinary curricula where fellows from different specialties rotate together (e.g., ID fellows and rheumatology fellows on the same rotation, 50% clinical/50% didactic).

  • Emily Abdoler, MD, MAEd

    Emily Abdoler, MD, MAEd

    University of Michigan

    Emily Abdoler is co-director of the Infectious Diseases & Microbiology course at the University of Michigan Medical School, co-director of the Academy of Medical Educators, and co-lead of the Active Learning initiative within the preclinical curriculum. She currently serves on the Education Committee for the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Teaching and Learning Resource working group for the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice. She recently was a member of the Infectious Diseases Milestones Working Group for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Her research interests lie in metacognition - specifically clinical reasoning and reflective practice - and she is engaged in qualitative and mix-methods research projects at the intersection of these areas and Infectious Diseases. She is also involved in curriculum design and educational program evaluation within Infectious Diseases. She is interested in understanding and promoting medical education careers and research within the medical subspecialties.

  • Anna Person, MD

    Anna Person, MD

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Anna Person has recently assumed the role of Director of Education and Faculty Development in her ID Division. She works closely with Department of Medicine counterparts and works to enhance opportunities for learning for faculty. Her current areas of focus include: providing tools to become more effective educators, providing content and education on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and helping faculty to understand the promotion process. 

  • Saman Nematollahi, MD

    Saman Nematollahi, MD

    Johns Hopkins University

    Saman Nematollahi is currently finishing his ID fellowship at Johns Hopkins and will start his transplant ID position at the University of Arizona. He has completed his coursework in the Masters of Education in the Health Professions through Johns Hopkins University School of Education. He is the Vice-Chair of the IDSA Fellows Subcommittee and is a liaison to the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice Executive Committee. His education interests include diagnostic reasoning, curriculum development, and leveraging social media to advance medical education.

  • James "Brad" Cutrell, MD

    James "Brad" Cutrell, MD

    UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Brad Cutrell currently serves as the Adult ID Fellowship Program Director and HIV Medicine Fellowship Program Director at UT Southwestern. He also co-directs the ID Hybrid rotation for the IM Residents. Outside of UTSW, he is the Vice-Chair of the IDSA In-Training Exam Test Development subcommittee and is a member of the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice Executive Committee. Clinically, Brad serves as the Medical Director for Antimicrobial Stewardship at UT Southwestern University Hospitals and Clinics. His areas of scholarly interest focus on leveraging technology and other innovative strategies to teach antimicrobial stewardship and general ID content to graduate medical trainees.

  • Vera Luther, MD

    Vera Luther, MD

    Wake Forest School of Medicine

    Vera Luther is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Section on Infectious Diseases at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. At Wake Forest, she is the Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Core Faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and Associate Medical Director for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program. Her scholarly interests involve medical education, medical decision-making, and antimicrobial stewardship. She currently serves as Chair of the IDSA Antimicrobial Stewardship Curriculum Workgroup and the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice Mentoring Workgroup.

  • Brian S. Schwartz, MD

    Brian S. Schwartz, MD

    University of California San Francisco School of Medicine

    Brian Schwartz is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the Division of Infectious Diseases. At UCSF, he is the Course Director of the first-year medical student Pathogens and Host Defense course and the Program Director for the Infection Diseases Fellowship. His scholarly interests are focused on medical education and include faculty development of clinician-educators and strategies to enhance the learning of infectious diseases topics across learner groups. He is the present Chair of the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice Executive Committee.

  • Tara Vijayan, MD, MPH

    Tara Vijayan, MD, MPH

    David Geffen School of Medicine

    Tara Vijayan currently serves as the Medical Director for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Associate Director of Scientific Foundations of Medicine, Director of the Health Equity Pathway for the Internal Medicine Residency, and Director of the Medical Education Pathway for the UCLA Multicampus Fellowship in Infectious Diseases. Her passions are health equity, implementation science, and combating the global threat of antimicrobial resistance. Outside of UCLA she loves doing puzzles, reading, and hiking with her two wildlings, her husband and her 11-year-old hound.

  • Folu Ayoade, MD

    Folu Ayoade, MD

    University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

    Dr. Folu Ayoade is a clinician-educator at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and his role is traditionally split into three segments - clinical, education, and research. His educational roles are multi-level. At the medical school, he is a longitudinal clinician education program facilitator and he also provides support as the NextGen Phase 3 Infectious Diseases Course Co-Director. For the residency program, he offers didactic lectures to Internal medicine and neurology residents on several CNS topics. For the Infectious diseases fellowship, he provides didactic lectures on Neuro-infectious diseases and general ID topics and also provides mentorship to clinical fellows in research and scholastic activities.

  • Trevor Van Schooneveld, MD

    Trevor Van Schooneveld, MD

    University of Nebraska Medical Center

    Dr. Trevor Van Schooneveld has been interested in education on a variety of levels. He is the program director for their ID fellowship and has been for the last 10 years. He serves as core faculty for the IM residency and he is the rotation director for their General ID rotation. He also provides numerous lectures for the medical students. He is also the medical director for both their hospital and state antimicrobial stewardship programs where he gets to provide lots of education related to antibiotic use.