First-Year Fellows
Dr. Lucy Cai
Medical school: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Residency: Scripps Green (La Jolla, California
Interests: Antimicrobial stewardship, phage therapy
Dr. Zachary Kinler
Medical school: University of Mississippi Medical Center
Residency: Baylor College of Medicine
Interests: Immunocompromised infectious diseases, public health, antimicrobial stewardship
Dr. Kaihei Masuda
Medical school: Hokkaido University (Japan)
Residency: University of Texas Medical Branch
Interests: Transplant/immunocompromised infectious diseases, microbiology, HIV
Dr. April Nguyen
Medical school: University of Texas Health Science Center McGovern Medical School at Houston
Graduate school: University of Texas Health Science Center McGovern Medical School at Houston
Residency: Baylor College of Medicine
Interests: Physician/scientist career pathway, medical education
Dr. Apoorva Pandharpurkar
Medical school: Gandhi Medical College (India)
Residency: Insight Hospital & Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois)
Interests: General infectious diseases, sepsis and septic shock, medical education
Second-Year Fellows
Dr. Pauline Hoosepian-Mer
Medical school: University of Colorado School of Medicine
Residency: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California)
Interests: Global health, diseases of poverty, neglected tropical diseases, antimicrobial stewardship, advocacy
Dr. Maricarmen Mieles Salgado
Medical school: Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo (Ecuador)
Residency: New York Medical College — Metropolitan Hospital (New York City)
Interests: HIV medicine, opportunistic infections, tropical medicine, medical education
Dr. Amal Naji
Medical school: American University of Beirut
Residency: Piedmont Athens Regional (Athens, Georgia)
Interests: Immunocompromised hosts, vaccinology, virology
Dr. Tho Nguyen
Medical school: University of Kansas School of Medicine
Residency: Providence Portland Medical Center (Portland, Oregon)
Interests: Global health, public health, infection prevention and control
Dr. Roma Padalkar
Medical school: Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: Hackensack University Medical Center (Hackensack, New Jersey)
Interests: Global health, transplant infectious diseases, medical education
Dr. Matthew Proute
Medical school: University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
Residency: Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center (Summit, New Jersey)
Interests: Transplant infectious diseases, immunocompromised hosts, antimicrobial stewardship, medical education
Third-Year Fellows
Dr. D'Feau Lieu
Medical School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Graduate school (Ph.D.): University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Residency: Baylor College of Medicine
Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, bacterial protein toxins
Medicine-Pediatrics Fellows
Dr. Chia-Chi "Angela" Fu
Medical school: University of Texas Medical Branch
Residency: University of Missouri — Kansas City
Interests: Combined adult and pediatric infectious diseases, global health, travel medicine, tropical medicine, medical education
Dr. Abdul Almounajed
Medical school: Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
Residency: Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital (Royal Oak, Michigan)
Interests: Antimicrobial stewardship, bioinformatics, medical education