First Year
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I chose Rush because of the diversity in training experience, patient population, and learning opportunities. The fellowship program creates an incredibly unique training experience and allows me to explore my interests in public health, outreach, and medical education. - Sagel Dubey, MD
Second Year
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I️ chose Rush because of their commitment to health equity and their work with underserved communities. Rush’s relationship with Cook County allows for fellows to work with a diverse patient population, including those that are traditionally marginalized. They also have connections with the CORE Center, and since I️ am interested in HIV, this was a big positive for me. I️ also liked the Career Development Pathway Program which allows fellows to explore many different interests in ID. Lastly, I️ went to Rush for medical school so I️ know that everyone is very nice and approachable! - Emily Adochio, MD
I chose Rush primarily for the sincerity and enthusiasm I noticed on my interview day, but also for the diversity of experience offered by two neighboring hospital systems. I have also long had an interest in neuroinfectious disease, something that Rush has a particular focus in. - Ana Istrate, MD
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Alumni 2025
Name Current Activities Emily Adochio, MD (Chief Fellow) Metro Infectious Diseases Consultant (Private Practice) Jeries Alsahoury, MD TBD Malika Gill, MD (Chief Fellow) Metro Infectious Diseases Consultant (Private Practice) Ana Istrate, MD TBD Matt McGath, MD Academic Infectious Disease Physician at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria Alumni 2024
Name Current Activities Hilary Chang, DO (Chief Fellow) Metro Infectious Diseases Consultant (Private Practice) Francesca Cozzi, MD (Chief Fellow) Metro Infectious Diseases Consultant (Private Practice) Jae Hyung Jung, MD Transplant Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota Christine Lucky, MD Infectious Diseases Research Fellowship, Rush University Medical Center Robert Petrak, MD Metro Infectious Diseases Consultant (Private Practice) Alumni 2023
Name Current Activities Annette Abraham, MD
Chief FellowFranciscan Health, Michicagn City, Indiana (Private Practice) Anum Fayyaz, MD University of Miami, Transplant Infectious Disease Fellowship Ben Goldenberg, MD
Chief FellowSt. Mary Medical Center, Hobart, Indiana Raul Rodriguez, MD University of Miami, Transplant Infectious Disease Fellowship Alan Salazar, MD Metro Infectious Diseases Consultant (Private Practice) Alumni 2022
Name Current Activities Hina Farooq, MD Infectious Disease & Internal Medicine San Joaquin Hospital in California Haseeba Khan, MD Microbiology Fellowship at University of Indiana Indianapolis Manuela Reyna-Quito, MD Infectious Disease Faculty at Cook County Hospital Thomas Waller, DO Private Practice at Resurrection & Lutheran with Northwest Infectious Disease James Wilson, DO Critical Care Fellowship at Rush Alumni 2021
Name Current Activities Elias Baied, DO Attending the Mahidol Bangkok School of Tropical Medicine to pursue a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene Eric Bhaimia, DO Transplant Infectious Diseases fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota Subina Gurung
Chief FellowInfectious Disease Physician at Metro Infectious Disease Consultants (private practice group) in Chicago Do Young Kim, MD
3rd Year Research FellowMedical Microbiology Fellowship at Northshore/University of Chicago Eunsun “Emma” Lee, MD Infectious Disease Physician at Hill Crest Medical Center in Tulsa, OK. Tulsa Hospitalists Inc. Abigail Santos, MD Infectious Disease Physician at Med Center Health in Bowling Green, KY Alumni 2020
Name Current Activities Laura Hernandez, MD
Chief FellowAssistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center and Cook County Health in Chicago, IL Aamir Kazi, MD Transplant Infectious Disease Fellowship, University of Texas Houston and MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Huma Saeed, MD Transplant Infectious Disease Fellowship, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Nyal Siddiqi, DO Infectious Disease Physician, Metro Infectious Diseases Consultants, Arlington Heights, IL Jolie Guevara-Keenan, MD Infectious Disease Physician, Community Health Center of Snohomish County, Everett, WA Alumni 2019
Name Current Activities Sarah Sansom, DO
Chief FellowAssistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center and Cook County Health in Chicago, IL Will Stoecker, MD Infectious Disease Physician, Metro Infectious Diseases Consultants, Arlington Heights, IL Marc Schulman, MD Infectious Disease Physician, Dupont Circle Physicians Group, Washington, DC Lorrance Majewski, DO Hospitalist, Guam Alumni 2018
Name Current Activities Andrew Simms, MD
Chief FellowAssistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center and Cook County Health in Chicago, IL Hemil Gonzalez, MD Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL Julie (Akright) Kehdi, DO Infectious Disease Physician, Spectrum Health Medical Group, Grand Rapids, MI Meredith Coyle, MD Infectious Disease Physician, Ascension St. John Hospital & Medical Center, Detroit, MI Taeyong Sim, MD Infectious Disease Physician, Clinical Infectious Diseases Specialist, Las Vegas, NV -
- 2024 Daniel J Hirsch Scholarship, MIDC - Hannakate Lichota, MD
- 2024 Daniel J Hirsch Scholarship, MIDC - Malika Gill, MD
- 2024 Daniel J Hirsch Scholarship, MIDC - Emily Adochio, MD
- 2019-2020 ACTG Minority HIV Investigator Mentoring Program Awardee - Hemil Gonzalez, MD
- 2019 IDWeek Travel Grant - Sarah Sanson, DO
- 2019 IDWeek Travel Grant - Aamir Kazi, MBBS
- 2019 IDWeek Travel Grant - Laura Hernandez Guarin, MD
- 2018 RUMC Fellow Teacher of the Year - Andrew Simms, MD
- 2018 IDWeek Oral Presentation- Teppei Shimasaki, MD
- 2018 IDWeek Travel Grant - Teppei Shimasaki, MD
- 2018 IDWeek Robert C. Moellering Trainee Award - Teppei Shimaski, MD
- 2018 IDWeek Young Investigator Award - Kyle Popovich, MD
- 2018 RUMC ID Magnanimous Fellow Award - Meredith Coyle, MD
- 2018 SHEA Jonathan Freeman Scholarship - Teppei Shimasaki, MD
- 2017 IDWeek Travel Grant - Hemil Gonzalez
- 2015 AST Fellows Symposium Travel Grant - Yoona Rhee, MD
- 2014 IDWeek Travel Grant - Yoona Rhee, MD
* Data are incomplete before 2018
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Papers
- Shankaran S, Adochio E, Petrak R, Goldenberg B, Herald F, Lunn C, Hodgson H, Won S. An inpatient antimicrobial stewardship team driven penicillin allergy delabeling protocol for minimal and low-risk penicillin allergic patients. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2025 Feb 17;5(1):e54. doi: 10.1017/ash.2025.7. PMID: 40026768; PMCID: PMC11869059.
- Gill, M; Adochio, E.; Forrest, G. A Case of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in a Young Patient With Rheumatoid Arthritis. Priv. Pract. Infect. Dis., 2024, 4(3): 7; doi: 10.55636/PPID4030007.
- Kim DY, Lin MY, Jennings C, Li H, Jung JH, Moore NM, Ghinai I, Black SR, Zaccaro DJ, Brofman J, Hayden MK; CDC Prevention Epicenter Program. Duration of replication-competent SARS-CoV-2 shedding among patients with severe or critical coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Clin Infect Dis. 2022 May 24:ciac405. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac405. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35607802; PMCID: PMC9213867.
- Santos, A.C [Abigail Santos].; Varughese, C.A.; Shankaran, S. Something Odd and Something New: A Case of Shewanella Putrefaciens Peritonitis and Bacteremia Treated with Intraperitoneal Cefepime. Priv. Pract. Infect. Dis., 2021, 1(2): 6; doi: 10.35995/ppid1020006.
- Wallace J, Gonzalez H, Rajan R, Narasipura SD, Virdi AK, Olali AZ, Naqib A, Arbieva Z, Maienschein-Cline M, Al-Harthi L. Anti-HIV Drugs Cause Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Monocyte-Derived Macrophages. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2022 Apr 19;66(4):e0194121. doi: 10.1128/aac.01941-21. Epub 2022 Mar 16. PMID: 35293780; PMCID: PMC9017340.
- Sansom SE, Logan LK, Green SJ, Moore NM, Hayden MK. Whole-genome sequencing for neonatal intensive care unit outbreak investigations: Insight and lessons learned. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology 2021;1(1), E2. doi:10.1017/ash.2021.161
- Bhaimia E, Jung JH, Chan EL, Shah NN, Santos CAQ. Breakthrough Hepatitis B Virus Infection in a Liver Transplant Recipient on Lamivudine Prophylaxis for Donor Hepatitis B Core Antibody Seropositivity: A Review of Practices to Prevent De Novo Hepatitis B Virus Infection After Transplant. Journal of Clinical Liver Disease 2021 Aug 30;18(1):22-25 https://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cld.1102
- Kazi AS, Hart A, Rajakumar, Janardhan S, Dehghan-Paz I, Rhee Y. Primary Epstein-Barr Virus Infection with Marked Cholestasis, Warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia and Pancytopenia. Accepted for publication in Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice July 2020
- Santos CAQ, Rhee Y, Czapka MT, Kazi AS, Proia LA. Make Sure You Have a Safety Net: Updates in the Prevention and Management of Infectious Complications in Stem Cell Transplant Recipients. J Clin Med. 2020 Mar 21;9(3):865
Oral Presentations
- Christopher Szewcyzk, Hemil Gonzalez. A Severe Case of Lupus Cerebritis. Poster presentation accepted at the AAN Summer Conference on July 15-16, 2022, in San Francisco, CA.
- Sansom SE, Lin M, Schoeny M, Fukuda C, Shimasaki T, Dangana T, Moore N, Yelin R, Rhee Y, Tabith L, Sheng J, Cornejo Cisneros E, Murray J, Chang K, Lolans K, Ariston M, Rotunno W, Ramos H, Li H, Aboushaala K, Iwai N, Bassis B, Bell P, Young V, Hayden MK, for the CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Admission and Discharge Sampling Underestimates Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDRO) Acquisitions in an Intensive Care Unit. SHEA Spring 2021. April 16, 2021.
- SHEA Spring 2021. “SHEA’s Role in Leadership during COVID-19.” Virtual conference, April 13-16, 2021. Invited opening plenary speaker.
- 6th International Conference on Healthcare Associated Infections: Decennial Day. “Attacking healthcare transmission of AMR on multiple fronts: antibiotics, the microbiome, and containment.” Virtual conference, April 12, 2021. Invited symposium speaker.
- Shimasaki T, Rhee Y, Yelin RD, Ariston M, Ollison S, Fogg L, Dangana T, Cornejo-Cisneros E, Weinstein RA, Lolans K, Schoeny M, Lin MY, Moore NM, Hayden MK; CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. The gut: a veiled reservoir for multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) below the tip of the iceberg. IDWeek 2018.
- Shimasaki T, Seekatz AM, Bassis CM, Rhee Y, Yelin RD, Fogg L, Dangana T, Cornejo Cisneros E, Weinstein RA, Okamoto K, Lolans K, Schoeny M, Lin MY, Moore NM, Young VB, Hayden MK; CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. High relative abundance of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC-Kp) within the gut microbiota is associated with increased risk of bloodstream infection (BSI) in long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) patients. SHEA Spring 2018 Conference.
Posters
- Hart A, Kazi A, Rajakumar P, Dehghan-Paz, Rhee Y. A Case of Primary EBV Infection Complicated by Pronounced Jaundice with Cholestasis, Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia and Pancytopenia. Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics annual educational conference 2019.
- Kazi A, Sansom S, Varughese C, Hodgson H, Won S. Love Thy Steward – Who Does Not Love Antimicrobial Stewardship. IDWeek 2019.
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