Recent Graduates of the Academic Research Track

Paul Adamson, MD, MPH
7/2018 - 6/2021
Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Oladunni Adeyiga, MD, PhD
7/2010 - 6/2016
Residency: U Rochester
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Paul Allyn, MD
7/2012 - 6/2014
Residency: U of Colorado
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Jonathan Baghdadi, MD, PhD
7/2014 - 10/2019
School: New York University School of Medicine
Residency: Washington University in St. Louis
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, University of Maryland

Tracy Bercu, MD
7/2008 - 6/2010
School: St. George's
Residency: U Virginia Medical Center, VA
Position after Fellowship: ID/Hospitalist, Torrance, CA

Cherie Blair, MD, PhD
7/2017 - 6/2021
Residency: UCLA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Mary Catie Cambou, MD, PHD
7/2018 – 6/2022 (STAR 03/2024)
Residency: Montefiore
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Margaret Caplan, MD, MSc
7/2013 - 6/2016
School: University of South Florida
Residency: George Washington University
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, Harbor-UCLA

Quen Cheng, MD 
7/2014 - 3/2020
School: University of California, San Diego
Residency: UCLA Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Kara Chew, MD
7/2009 - 6/2013
Residency: UCSF Medical Center, CA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Jeremy Chow, MD, MS
7/2013 - 6/2016
Residency: Emory
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Jesse Clark, MD
7/2006 - 6/2008
School: Albert Einstein
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center, NY
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Rick Fairhurst, MD, PhD
7/2000 - 6/2004
School: UCLA
Residency: UCLA Medical Center, CA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, NIH

Jennifer Fulcher, MD, PhD
7/2012 - 6/2016
Residency: UCLA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Daisuke Furukawa, MD, MS
7/2018 - 6/2021
Residency: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, Stanford

David Goodman, MD, MAS
7/2016 - 6/2019
School: Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Tijuana
Residency: Jacobi Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Jennifer Hoffman, MD
7/2010 - 5/2014
Residency: Duke University
Position after Fellowship: ID/HIV care at Kaiser, Los Angeles

Risa Hoffman, MD, MPH
7/2005 - 6/2008
School: UCLA
Residency: Harvard Combined Medicine-Pediatrics, Boston, MA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Theodoros Kelesidis, MD, PhD
7/2009 - 9/2013
Residency: Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Jocelyn Kim, MD
07/2008 - 12/2015
Residency: Johns Hopkins
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Joseph Kim, MD, PhD
7/2011 - 6/2016
Residency: Yale
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria

Jordan Lake, MD
7/2007 - 6/2010
School: Baylor
Residency: Baylor University Medical Center, TX
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UT Health

Cate Le, MD
7/2016 - 8/2019
School: Washington University in St. Louis
Residency: Vanderbilt University
Position after Fellowship: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Martha Lewis, MD, PhD
7/2004 - 6/2007
School: Cornell/Rockefeller
Residency: UCLA Medical Center, CA
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice in Carmel, California

Katherine Li, MD
7/2022 - 6/2025
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Katherine Loomis, MD
7/2021 – 6/2023
Residency: USC
Position after Fellowship: Ambulatory Care, Los Angeles County

Cynthia Maree, MD
7/2003 - 6/2007
School: Stanford
Residency: UCLA Medical Center, Cford
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice

Elise Martin, MD, MSc
7/2013 - 6/2016
Residency: UCLA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, University of Pittsburgh

Seema Mehta, MD
7/2011 - 6/2014
Residency: Tufts Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Transplant ID Faculty, Johns Hopkins

Steven Park, MD, PhD
7/2003 - 6/2006
School: New York University
Residency: UC Irvine, CA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UC Irvine

Farjad Sarafian, MD
7/2005 - 6/2007
School: Sackler
Residency: UCLA West LA VA, CA
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice in Orange County, California

David Scholle, MD
7/2007 - 6/2009
School: University of Oregon
Residency: Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland, OR
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice

Chris Tymchuk, MD, PhD
7/2008 - 6/2011
Residency: UCLA Medical Center, CA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Obi Umeh, MD
9/2002 - 8/2005
School: University of Nigeria
Residency: Brooklyn Hospital, NY
Position after Fellowship: Vice President of Clinical Research, Cubist Pharmaceuticals

Jennifer Veltman, MD
8/2012 - 8/2014
Residency: Detroit Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, Wayne State University

Recent Graduates of the Clinical Scholar Track

Prabhat Adhikari, MB, BS
7/2015 - 6/2017
Residency: Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Position after Fellowship: ID Fellow, Nepal

Armen Arshakyan, MD
7/2013 - 8/2015
Residency: University of Southern California
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice

Tracy Bae, MD
7/2010 - 6/2012
School: Albert Einstein/Yeshiva
Residency: Cedars-Sinai/VA Greater Los Angeles
Position after Fellowship: Kaiser Permanente, Northern CA

Omer Eugene Beaird, MD 
7/2016 - 6/2018
School: Drexel University College of Medicine
Residency: University of Michigan
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Michael Ben-Aderet, MD
7/2015 - 6/2017
Residency: UCLA-Olive View Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Hospital Epidemiologist

Azra Bhimani, MD
7/2020 – 6/2022
Residency: UCLA
Position after Fellowship: Valley Community Healthcare, Los Angeles

Sherrill Brown, MD
7/2012 - 6/2014
School: New York Medical College
Residency: University of California, Davis
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, University of California, Davis

Chris Brychel, MD
7/2013 - 8/2015
Residency: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/VA Greater Los Angeles
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice

Andrea Censullo, MD
7/2014 - 6/2016
Residency: Cedars-Sinai/WLA VA
Position after Fellowship: Kaiser Permanente, Panorama City

Suttirak Chaiwongkarjohn, MD
7/2011 - 6/2013
School: Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Residency: University of Hawaii
Position after Fellowship: Private practice, Antelope Valley

Sandy Chang, MD
7/2018 - 6/2020
Residency: UCLA
Position after Fellowship: Transplant Fellow, UCLA

Neha Chopra, MB, BS
7/2015 - 6/2017
Residency: Metro West Medical Center, MA
Position after Fellowship: Unity Health, Cleveland, OH

Devin Clark, MD
7/2019 - /2021
Residency: Brigham & Women's Hospital
Position after Fellowship: Kaiser Permanente

Kusha Davar, MD MBA MS
7/2019 - 6/2021
Residency: George Washington U
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, LAC+USC

Thomas Dieringer, MD
7/2019 - 6/2021
Residency: U Virginia
Position after Fellowship: ID Transplant Fellowship, Stanford

Amy Dora, MD
7/2018 - 6/2020
Residency: UCLA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Josh Douglas, MD
7/2011 - 6/2013
School: Univerzity Karlovy, Prague
Residency: Albert Einstein Jacobi, Stanford (crit care)
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, University of British Columbia

Dena El-Sayed, MD
7/2014 - 6/2016
Residency: Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
Position after Fellowship: Ventura County Public Health

Austin Fan, MD
7/2022 – 6/2024
Residency: Loyola University  
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, USC/Keck

April Ferguson, MD
7/2010 - 6/2012
School: American University of the Caribbean
Residency: Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ
Position after Fellowship: Kaiser Permanente, Northern CA

Christopher Foltz, MD
7/2015 - 6/2017
Residency: Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Desert AIDS Project, Palm Springs, CA

Nicole Fossas Braegger, MD
7/2022 – 6/2024
Residency: Ochsner 
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice, San Fernando Valley

David Fuller, MD
7/2019 - 6/2021
Residency: Duke
Position after Fellowship: LA County TB control

Pryce Gaynor, MD
7/2017 - 6/2019
School: St. George's University School of Medicine
Residency: University of Arizona
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Jean Gibb, MD
7/2017 - 6/2019
School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Residency: UCLA Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, USC Keck School of Medicine

Ariella Goldblatt, MD
7/2020 – 6/2022
Residency: MedStar Georgetown
Position after Fellowship: Sharp Rees Steely, San Diego

Marianne Go-Wheeler, MD 
7/2016 - 6/2018
School: University of Arizona College of Medicine
Residency: Harbor-UCLA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Umme-Aiman Halai, MB, BS, MPH
7/2015 - 6/2017
Residency: University of Missouri
Position after Fellowship: LA County Department of Public Health

Pishoy Haroun, MD
7/2020 – 6/2022
Residency: Harbor-UCLA
Position after Fellowship: Kaiser Panorama City

Leon Hsueh, MD
7/2021 - 6/2023
Residency: Brown University, Providence, RI
Position after Fellowship: Metro Infectious Diseases Consultants, Chicago, IL

Glen Huang, OD
7/2019 - 6/2021
Residency: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Antiviral Division, FDA

Caroline Isner, MD
7/2011 - 6/2013
School: Universitaet Ulm, Germany
Residency: Albert Einstein Jacobi
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

Paul Janoian, MD 
7/2016 - 6/2018
School: New York Medical College
Residency: UCLA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Arzhang Cyrus Javan, MD
7/2011 - 6/2013
School: New York Medical College
Residency: Georgetown
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Joshua Jeharajah, MD
7/2017 - 6/2019
School: University of Southern California
Residency: Huntington Memorial Hospital

Sowmya Kalava, MBBS
7/2022 – 6/2024
Residency: Mount Sinai (Elmhurst)
Position after Fellowship: Undetermined

Hannah Kern, MD
7/2018 - 6/2020
Residency: UCLA
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice

Nour Khouzam, MD
7/2015 - 6/2017
School: New York Medical College
Residency: Mount Sinai School of Medicine –Englewood Hospital

Johann Kolev, MD
7/2017 - 6/2019
School: The Commonwealth Medical College
Residency: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Kaiser Permanente

Atul Kothari, MD
7/2012 - 6/2014
School: Maulana Azad Medical College, India
Residency: John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, University of Arkansas-Little Rock

Aaron Kwong, MD
7/2020 – 6/2022
Residency: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Cassandra Lautredou, MD
7/2021 – 6/2024
Residency: Duke
Position after Fellowship: Arkansas Dept of Public Health

Stephenie Le, MD
7/2021 - 6/2023
Residency: UCSF
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Hayden Lowenstein, MD
7/2014 - 6/2016
Residency: UCSD
Position after Fellowship: Tower ID, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Jason Malenfant, MD
7/2017 - 6/2019
School: St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies
Residency: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Fellow, UCLA Preventative Medicine

Mark Mayo, MD
7/2021 - 6/2023
Residency: U Washington
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, University of Washington

Khalid Maznavi, MD
7/2010 - 6/2012
School: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Residency: St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach, CA
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice, Torrance, CA

Christian Olivo Freites, MD
7/2020 – 6/2022
Residency: Mount Sinai St. Luke’s
Position after Fellowship: Ryan Health, NY

John O’Reilly, MD
7/2019 - 6/2021
Residency: Columbia
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice

Nirav Patel, MD
7/2010 - 6/2012
School: UCLA
Residency: Cedars-Sinai/VA Greater Los Angeles
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, St. Louis University

Roma Patel, MD
7/2016 - 6/2018
School: University of Auckland Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Residency: Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice, Orange County, CA

Elizabeth Ranson, MD
7/2021 - 6/2023
Residency: UCLA
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Gisela Rosario Rosario, MD
7/2015 - 6/2017
School: UCLA
Residency: Lehigh Valley Health Network
Position after Fellowship: Arash Alborzi Medical Group, Glendale, CA

Ashlyn Sakona, MD
7/2017 - 4/2020
School: Jefferson Medical College
Residency: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Faculty, UCLA

Jake Scott, MD
7/2014 - 6/2016
Residency: Kaiser Oakland
Position after Fellowship: Stanford ValleyCare, Pleasanton CA

Kyla Sherwood, MD
7/2021 - 6/2023
Residency: UCSF
Position after Fellowship: UCLA Preventive Medicine Fellowship

David Tellalian, MD
7/2012 - 6/2014
School: University of Southern California
Residency: Harbor/UCLA
Position after Fellowship: AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Los Angeles

Bhatraphol Tingpej, MD
7/2011 - 6/2013
School: Siriraj Hospital, Thailand
Residency: Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY
Position after Fellowship: Private practice, South Carolina

Luis Tulloch, MD
7/2016 - 6/2018
School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Residency: University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals
Position after Fellowship: VA Puget Sound/University of Washington

Moises Vargas Mena, MD, MPH
7/2022 – 6/2024
Residency: Griffin Hospital
Position after Fellowship: Wenatchee Valley Medical Group, WA

Mika Watanabe, MD, MPH
7/2018 - 6/2020
Residency: Olive View UCLA Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center

Edgar Wayne, MD
7/2012 - 6/2014
School: University of Michigan
Residency: Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco
Position after Fellowship: Kaiser Permanente, Inland Empire

Bryant Yang, MD
7/2019 - 6/2021
Residency: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Position after Fellowship: Private Practice, Santa Monica

Rolando Zamora Gonzalez, MD
7/2022 – 6/2024
Residency: University of Miami
Position after Fellowship: Critical Care Fellowship, Stanford