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Fellows & Alumni - Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program

Current Fellows

Hometown: New Hyde Park, NY
Undergraduate: Stony Brook University
Personal Interests: exploring new restaurants, coffee shops, and breweries, traveling, road trips, hiking, playing poker

Why Infectious Diseases?
I loved my microbiology class and lab as an undergraduate, especially on topics such as bacteria and tropical diseases. I also like the fact that in infectious diseases, the diagnosis is not always obvious because the field is vast and has a lot of variety so you must use critical and analytical thinking to find the diagnosis and create appropriate treatment plans.

Why Ochsner?
A major and well-respected academic center of excellence, well-versed faculty, the patient population it serves, and the work-life balance which allows time to explore New Orleans.

Hometown: Fremont, CA
Undergraduate: St. Louis University
Personal Interests: dance, cooking (and eating), hiking, yoga, painting

Why Infectious Diseases?
I love the variety of cases you can see in infectious disease and the amount of detective work that is involved in those cases. I enjoy being able to have a combination of patients that are followed for a long period of time (HIV) and others that have acute infections that improve quickly. I have also always been interested in micro, so this is the perfect field for me.

Why Ochsner?
The welcoming faculty, the patient population, the great education, the schedule that allows for work-life balance, and of course the exciting city of New Orleans.

Selected Publications

Alumni Positions

Shobit Keswani, MD
2024
Hospital Medicine in Tennessee with plans to start private practice in Texas
Daniel Shapiro, DO
2023
Ochsner Health, Baton Rouge, LA
Andrew Tran, MD
2023
AIDS Healthcare Foundation
Hind H. Alrowais, MBBS
2022
Minister of Interior Medical City of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sonya I. Bonnin-Serrallés, MD
2022
Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA
Geoffrey Casimir, MD
2021
ProHEALTH Care Associates, Long Island, New York
Abby Cocco, DO
2020
Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA
Cariane Morales-Matos, MD
2019
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center
Harry Marty Vigo, MD
2018
Baptist Health, Jacksonville, FL
Karla Rivera Rivera, MD
2016
Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA