First Year
Medical School: Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College
Residency: The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education
Professional Interest: Global health and tropical medicine
Medical School: University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine
Residency: Creighton University
Professional Interest: Transplant infectious disease and critical care
Second Year
Medical School: Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: Creighton University
Professional Interest: Global health and travel medicine
- Dr. Kelly Bierman's Scholarly Activity
- Chief Fellow, 2025-2026
- Received the Jonathan Freeman Scholarship Award to attend and present her research at SHEA 2025
- Awarded a DOM Medical Education Innovation Grant for project, “Exploring Antimicrobial Decision Making Among Trainees and Providers to Inform Targeted Interventions to Optimize Outcomes for Vulnerable Patients"
Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) Trainee
Medical School: University of Michigan Medical School
Residency: Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center/University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
- Dr. Michael Dieterle's Scholarly Activity
- Member of the ICU Data Science Lab with Dr. Matthew Churpek
Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) Trainee
Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Residency: University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
Professional Interest: Transplant infectious diseases
- Dr. Caroline Ewing's Scholarly Activity
- Member of the ICU Data Science Lab with Dr. Matthew Churpek
- Ewing CB, Siraj D, Lepak A. First Case of Neuroinvasive Oropouche Virus in Wisconsin: A Case Report. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2025;12(9):ofaf402.
- Mehrotra N, Ross MM, Chilukuri AS, Eljamri S, Ewing C, Patel S, Patel V, Siegel LB, Sistla D, Shariff RK, Fazeli PK. 8263 Long-term Imaging Follow-up of Non-functioning Pituitary Adenomas. J Endocr Soc. 2024;8(Suppl 1):bvae163.1268.
- Presented abstract at Association of American Physicians/American Society for Clinical Investigation/American Physician Scientists Association Joint Meeting in Chicago, titled "Blastomyces dermatitidis titers decline rapidly in severe disease and azole monitoring levels stabilize over time with less variability in older patients"
Medicine-Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Joint Track
Medical School: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Residency: Tulane University
Professional Interest: Antibiotic stewardship, HIV, and vaccines
Third Year
Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) Trainee
Medical School: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Residency: University of Maryland Medical Center
Professional Interest: Virology
- Dr. Christopher Gelbmann's Scholarly Activity
- Member of the Mehle Lab
- M.S. Ohman, E.R. Albright, C.B. Gelbmann, & R.F. Kalejta. The Pentamer glycoprotein complex inhibits viral Immediate Early transcription during Human Cytomegalovirus infections. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121 (39) e2408078121 (2024)
Fourth Year
Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP) Trainee
Medical school: University of Washington MD/PhD program
Residency: University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
Professional interests: Viral evolution
- Dr. Heather Machkovech's Scholarly Activity
- The 2025 Pearl M. Stetler Research Fund for Women Physicians recipient
- Member of the Friedrich Lab (UW School of Veterinary Medicine), studying RNA virus evolution, transmission and pathogenesis
- Heather M Machkovech, Anne M Hahn, Jacqueline Garonzik Wang, Nathan D Grubaugh, Peter J Halfmann, Marc C Johnson, Jacob E Lemieux, David H O'Connor, Anne Piantadosi, Wanting Wei, Thomas C Friedrich. Persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection: significance and implications. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. January 2024.
Medical School: Amala Institute of Medical Sciences
Residency: St. Barnabas Hospital (Bronx, NY)
Fellowship in Infectious Diseases: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Professional Interest: Transplant infectious disease